And why?
2007-02-03 04:49:35 · 13 answers · asked by robtheman 6 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
Man didn't invent fire. He learned how to harness it and learn how to benefit from it, but fire was not invented.
2007-02-03 05:06:48 · update #1
The thermos bottle!
It keeps cold things cold and it keeps hot things hot, but how does it know.
2007-02-03 13:14:43 · answer #1 · answered by Polyhistor 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Wheel. Look how much needs the prinicple of the wheel to run. I'm sure some might claim the written language but if we didn't invent fire did we invent writing? Anyway I really believe with how much is based on the wheel it really is the best.
2007-02-03 06:05:38 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The microscope
Purely because it enabled scientists to discover germs, without which god only knows what we would be curing diseases with now. think how a lack of knowledge about the causes of diseases could effect our daily lives - eating food off dirty chopping boards because we don't understand it could make us ill, letting cuts be wrapped in dirty bandages, yes people suspected this in the past but they couldn't prove it until the microscope. The microscope has saved so many lives I personally believe it to be mankinds greatest invention.
2007-02-03 06:41:06 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Printing Press
2007-02-03 05:09:18 · answer #4 · answered by memnoch3333 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Without a doubt the greatest creation of mankind is the written word. Without it no communication would be possible to invent things.Internet would not work without words!!!!!!!!
2007-02-03 05:03:02 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Fire. Because man no longer had to live in the darkness. He could have hot food., hot water and warmth. He could use fire to fashion metals, and make weapons to hunt and protect himself. Fire kept wild animals at bay, and much more.
2007-02-03 04:57:37 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
the spear (and how to use it)
Because it meant more food for the tribe and security from wild animals- hence the possibility of creating villages (as opposed to scattered groups in caves and trees). Villages meant the beginning of civilisation.
2007-02-03 05:38:49 · answer #7 · answered by cp_scipiom 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the printing press. cuz we can then share ideas on a mass scale. and fire can be invented you werent there, if someone had never seen fire and tehn clacked two rocks together and created a spark and then fire they "created" fire. fro based on your logic, nothign is created, it has always existed, we have jstu fAiled to put all teh pieces together
2007-02-03 12:13:33 · answer #8 · answered by cav 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Fire...then paper.
2007-02-03 05:04:30 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Religion It gaves us hope and yet power. the power of corruption and lies, if somthing does not go the way we want we can blame the devil or god so its never our fault
2007-02-03 10:31:20 · answer #10 · answered by mr.jashford 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋