Top 5 inventions ever

[Photi]

I would have made a poll, but invariably i would have left something out. just wondering what advancements or inventions everyone thinks have had the most profound impact on humanity. here's mine:

1. Agriculture--made everything else possible
2. Writing--Raised humanity out of prehistory and has given continuity of meaning to our existence.
3. The Printing Press--People power!!
4. (Harnessing of) Electricity--led to light bulb, radio, elevators and skyscrapers, computers etc.
5. The Internet--People power on steroids!

I left religion out because i believe it is Divine intervention. No doubt that steel, plastics and nuclear weapons should be rated high on the list, but I don't see them as being in the top 5. How about you guys?

 

[QuoVadisNation]

1. Agriculture
2. Money
3. Urban centralization
4. Medicine
5. Amuurica (or) Communications

 

[George2816]

1. Greed - Thats why people invent stuff
2. Jealous - That why people die from other people
3.
4.
5.
You can add 3-5 i'm too lazy atm!

 

[Italian Celtic]

football
surf
beach volley
ping pong
skateboard

 

[Integral]

1. Calculus. Self-explanatory.
2. Something military: Either rifled grooves, the infantry mortar, or the machine gun.
3. The Printing Press, for its impact on the spread of knowlege
4. Double-entry bookeeping, for its impact on business and finance
5. Railroads, for their impact on economic development


Aside from the obvious stuff like writing, agriculture, the taming of the horse and camel, the stirrup, the development of cities, etc.

-Integral

 

[Ultima Dragoon]

1. Penicillin
2. Graphite lead
3. Internal Combustion engine
4. Nuclear reactors
5. interbutt

 

[Izipo]

1/ Fire
2/ Ceremonial burial
3/ Agriculture
4/ Urbanisation
5/ Writing

On a more modern scale

1/ Electricity
2/ Steam power (railroads)
3/ Printing press and mass media
4/ Computers
5/ The space elevator... wait, what, we still don't have it ?

 

[soul_warrior]

1- beer
2- wine
3- pot stills
4- yeast
5- refrigiration

 

[Mulholland]

1. Agriculture--made everything else possible

I'd classify agriculture like fire, as more as a discovery than an invention. It was none-the-less the most important discovery in founding modern society.

1)Writing is very important.
2)Printing press doubly so
3)Sewage systems
4)Steel
5)Democracy

 

[Godwynn]

1- beer
2- wine
3- pot stills
4- yeast
5- refrigiration

All very good choices.

 

[brennan]

No-one heard of the Wheel?

 

[bhsup]

No-one heard of the Wheel?

Thank you! I'm reading these choices and thinking, "where is the most obvious??"

• The wheel
• Concrete (kudos to those master builders, the Romans!)
• Antibiotics
• Powered flight
• 4-way tie: Samantha Fox, Kathy Ireland, Civilization, X-Com (okay, really it's the printing press, but I couldn't let those four go without a shout out)

 

[Eran of Arcadia]

1. Fire-creating technology
2. Stone tools
3. Languages
4. Plant cultivation techniques
5. Animal domestication

 

[Love]

Spoiler :

5. Backscratcher:

4. USB coffee warmer:

3. Frankenstein:

2. Pesto:

1. CFC!!!!!:

1.
Nuclear waste drinking giant ridable super chef pirate puppy and his rocket cot:

Special thanks To:

Perfection
Perfection
Perfection
And Perfection

 

[Wolfe Tone]

No-one heard of the Wheel?

I disagree. The second wheel was much more important

 

[stormbind]

1. Stick
2. Language
3. Alphabet
4. Brick
5. Pulley

 

[soul_warrior]

1. stone
2. stick
3. pointy stick
4. flying pointy stick
5. nukes

 

[Brighteye]

Writing
money
bow
Steam power
compass/clock

 

[sirdanilot]

Not in a particular order.

Internet
Electricity
Fire
Agriculture
Writing
Mathematics or more generally, logical thinking etc.
Currency

 

[EconomistBR]

-Internet
-Vasectomy
-Eternal life (yet to be invented)
-End of work (yet to be invented)
-Speech