Top 5 inventions ever

[Photi]

Now since when have you ever had sliced bread in a CAN!

always read the fine print!

 

[DNK]

Fine, for not easy ones...

1. The BMW 3-series
2. Antibiotics
3. Optical lenses
4. Soap/deodorant
5. The cushion/pillow

 

[sourboy]

Agriculture
Mathematics
Writing
Currency

not sure for 5th... electricity, internet, micro-, medicine, etc

 

[Wolfe Tone]

I never really got sliced bread being given such importance, even if it is just an expression. I like sandwhich made out of a nice sliced loaf as much as the next guy, but I actively try to find an unsliced crusty loaf if I can. A few local bakers still sell them. That way I can have proper slices, not little paper thin things that pass for a slice these days. It stays fresher unsliced and it's not like it's hard to cut bread.

 

[Eukaryote]

You need to go really far back to get to the inventions that satisfy our most basic needs.

1. Speech - Everything is ridiculously hard if you can't communicate.

2. (Harnessing of) Fire - The ability to keep warm, cook meat, scare away wolves, and push mammoths off cliffs is all thanks to fire.

3. Agriculture - This made us have a steady source off food to reduce starvation, and have people do other things.

4. Writing - Everything is still pretty hard when you have to be standing right next to a person to communicate. It makes remembering easier too.

5. Bow - This is probably the most influental hunting tool in history.

Honerable mentions: Electricity, Birth Control, Currency.

 

[Godwynn]

1. Agriculture
2. Writing
3. Printing Press
4. Sanitary Systems (Plumbing)
5. Public Education System

 

[Mise]

Agriculture, writing and fire are unimaginative, boring cop-outs if you ask me.

 

[EdwardTking]

Agriculture
Animal Husbandry
Fire
Wheel
Writing

And if fire is not an invention (because of wild fires);
then neither is electricity (because of lightning)

 

[Trafalgar]

The Bikini
The Thong
The push-up-Bra
The Mini-skirt
And for the ladies... the tampon.

I am a sexist pig.

 

[Photi]

Fine, for not easy ones...

1. The BMW 3-series

i thnk this is the thread killer. all other inventions exist solely to lead mankind to the 3-series.

 

[dh_epic]

Electricity wasn't an invention . . .

Technicality Then one of the most important inventions has been electrification -- the ability to harness energy through wires and batteries and so on. I know that's kind of a meta-invention. But writing was invented much the same way -- some symbols here, some accounting there, some effort to link it to language, and it all adds up to "writing".

 

[Communisto]

1: Toilet paper
2: Pizza with the cheese IN the crust
3: Jet Packs
4: Machine guns on top of bad ass jeeps
5: Spaghetti Westerns

 

[DNK]

Communisto,

I just invented something better: pizza with cheese in all the crust. It's pretty sweet.

 

[Tee Kay]

1. Writing
2. Printing Press
3. Telephone
4. Compass
5. Antibiotics

I exclude things like agriculture since it's too broad a category, and things like fire and electricity since they're not "real" inventions - just something in nature that humans harness or adapt to their own use.

 

[Eran of Arcadia]

The compass is just something in nature (ie the magnetic poles) that we have harnessed for our own use. That also describes, like, everything.

 

[Photi]

The compass is just something in nature (ie the magnetic poles) that we have harnessed for our own use. That also describes, like, everything.

i agree. human ingenuity is nothing more than finding creative ways to harness the forces of nature.

 

[BirraImperial]

1-Beer.
2-Porn.
3-Football.
4-Bikinis.
5-Jaegermeister

 

[Abaddon]

Toast, and the wheel.

 

[EconomistBR]

Classical Theory
Keynesian Theory
Law of Marginal Decreasing Returns
Consumer Theory
Computers