2006-06-14 22:05:33 · 55 answers · asked by bearos3000 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Other - Science
I'm surprised no one has mentioned the movable type printing press. This enabled the easy storage and movement of information.
Think about all the education you have had, and your educators have had, and their educators have had etc... how much has been learnt and passed on through the printed word? Including information on how to make a wheel, what a wheel is, and all the possible applications for the wheel. Same goes for the other inventions mentioned.
Sure simple devices such as the wheel had been around for centuries before the printing press and some had some considerable impact on mankind. However technological development had been pretty stagnant before the advent of the movable type printing press.The industrial revolution wouldn't have been possible without the printing press. We would still be living in the 'Dark Ages'.
Not only has the movable type printing press been a key part of the technologies used in other inventions mentioned but has also been a key factor in the social development of mankind. For example
the massive impact of political works such as the Communist Manifesto.
2006-06-19 13:56:09 · answer #1 · answered by balans_99 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I put "greatest invention" in a search engine, and this is what "The Times" came up with!
WHAT IS BRITAIN'S GREATEST INVENTION?
The Times has set out to find which invention has been the most important in the making of the modern world.
Voting in our poll for the shortlisted inventions has now closed and the votes have been counted.
The winner was bicycle
The runner-up was electricity
2006-06-22 06:59:44 · answer #2 · answered by tinkerbell34 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The greatest ever invention by human beings is WHEEL
2006-06-14 22:45:50 · answer #3 · answered by abbasi 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well the question is which was the simplest & earliest invention? Cause that would have led to other inventions! Looking from that point of view, I would say the discovery of basic laws of science were the greatest, e.g. Newton's Laws.
One survey however lists Bicycle as the greatest!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4513929.stm
2006-06-26 00:55:46 · answer #4 · answered by Prasant 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In this order: The Wheel, Printing Press, Plastic, Penicillin, Electricity, Computers, Automobile, Airplane.
2006-06-28 12:16:17 · answer #5 · answered by sosmadder 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think most people would say some electrical appliance but the most 'right' answer would be the wheel. Why? Because the wheel allowed us to move heavier things and aided in Man's development of the rational thought. Another one if you considered it as an invention, i guess would be fire as it has allowed Mankind with little defences to ward off predators and cook our food for consumption.
2006-06-15 03:08:36 · answer #6 · answered by wonght12 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Erm.. I think the greatest invention was a mobile. I mean, where would everyone be without one? Lost, that's where!
2006-06-24 11:01:25 · answer #7 · answered by CityGirl21 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The wheel, making of fire, Flight, Jet engine, Internal combustion engine, the computer, the Internet, the telephone,
Cellular phone, the aqualung, Penicillin, Electricity, The electric light bulb, Deep submersible vehicle. the motor car.
2006-06-23 11:09:29 · answer #8 · answered by ?Master 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Sandwich
2006-06-14 22:24:20 · answer #9 · answered by sunsworth1975 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Printing Press, no question.
It allowed the masses to obtain an education and lift themselves out of the dirt
2006-06-28 15:23:36 · answer #10 · answered by Renegade 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋