I think the internet is the second greatest. What do you think?
2006-12-13 01:00:31 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Other - Science
By the way, fire is not an invention it is a discovery. Lightning hits tree it starts fire and fire is therefore discovered. The invention of matches is not the invention of fire.
2006-12-13 01:34:32 · update #1
Before we ad the internet we had to have computers and before that we had to have a way to build computers and thast was the invention of the transtor by Bell labs
2006-12-13 04:09:27 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sure the discovery of fire isn't an invention, but the technique of rubbing two sticks together to create fire is, or the invention of the fire bow is an invention, any idea that uses the creative thought process to simulate a force of nature with an artificial means is in my books a invention.
Number 1. The invention of the creation of fire (not the discovery)
Number 2. The invention of Agriculture in the stone age
Number 3. The invention of Metallurgy in 4300 B.C. (copper age)
If none of my answers can be called an inventions then the wheel can't be called a invention either.
2006-12-13 09:43:27 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Though not in the top 5, do not underestimate "air-conditioning". It has allowed the southern states to flourish. Of course, I was born in Minnesota and now live in Texas where we have a month or so of 100's each summer. I may be a bit biased.
Now if only they had an invention to make "Texans" tolerable.
2006-12-13 10:20:29 · answer #3 · answered by runningman022003 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The electrical conductor. In which it's creation led to other inventions such as the light bulb, telegraph, telephone etc.
2006-12-13 09:51:20 · answer #4 · answered by Denny M 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Sliced Bread & the Mouse Trap
2006-12-13 09:10:14 · answer #5 · answered by mmmkay_us 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The printing press. Think of it as the internet of its day, and without it, we'd still be in the dark ages.
2006-12-13 10:16:27 · answer #6 · answered by Jason 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree.. Fire is the second..
Paper on the third and Internet on the fourth
2006-12-13 09:11:26 · answer #7 · answered by xArz 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
How about the snap top can ?
2006-12-13 09:08:06 · answer #8 · answered by pappy 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
fire would be second
gunpowder third
2006-12-13 09:09:00 · answer #9 · answered by pilotB 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋