2006-12-23 04:46:35 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Engineering
Fire, it was worshiped.
2006-12-23 05:16:35 · answer #1 · answered by dgbaley27 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The American Academy of Engineers recently nominated electrification, water treatment, the car and the plane as the 20th century's greatest engineering achievements. Other suggested candidates? refrigeration, computers, radio, satellites. I'd put anaesthetics, aseptic surgery and antibiotics somewhere near the top of the list.
2006-12-23 10:33:08 · answer #2 · answered by zee_prime 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If organizing and memorizing and understanding a set of new tasks or technology is an invention then I would have to say it is verbal language.
I don't think a pry bar or even the incline plane is in the same league
2006-12-23 05:17:07 · answer #3 · answered by logie ogie 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The printing press revolutionised communication of ideas and knowledge. Guttenberg invented it.
2006-12-23 06:18:06 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The printing press. 1447 Germany.
2006-12-23 05:01:18 · answer #5 · answered by vincent 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The wheel - prehistory
2006-12-23 05:04:43 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋