2007-02-10 06:37:12 · 15 answers · asked by Woody 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
I want to go to outer space too. Good question.
I have to say it is the written language.
Space, here I come.
2007-02-10 06:45:36 · answer #1 · answered by Hans B 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The invention I personally like the best is most definitely the toilet. It's quite useful - enough said.
However, the inventions that had the biggest impact on the world were said to be the Four Great Inventions of China: paper, printing, the compass and gunpowder.
It is quite obvious how paper and printing have affected the world. From where would we get any information without these inventions? It would be from clay and wood blocks that were quite impractical to carry around. Paper and printing have made information to be spread all across the globe is a way that is fast and easy.
The compass has vastly impacted navigation and navigation is consistently used, daily and all over the globe. Airplanes depend on navigation. Ships for sure depend on navigation. Cars depend on streets which were planned out using navigation. Heck, even when giving someone directions you say "Turn SOUTH at the third intersection." Also, the compass has helped discover every part of this earth. Such a discovery has quite vastly expanded human knowledge. The invention of the compass would've even shot down some previous human ideas such as that the earth was flat.
Gunpowder could be considered an invention that has negatively impacted humankind. However, war always was and still is a major part of our world. Gunpowder has helped improve war strategies and has made killing more efficient. Not a good thing but nevertheless, it has impacted the world.
It is quite impossible to decide on one invention that is the greatest or that had the biggest impact. However, the above four are proven to have had the biggest impact on the world. They affect virtually every aspect of our life.
As for the invention of the wheel, what the heck is wrong with walking? ;)
2007-02-10 14:49:22 · answer #2 · answered by Basiate 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
antibiotics! without them,people would still be dying of simple things like sinus infections(henry the 8th died of this),infected teeth and any situation where any part of the body gets infected for any reason.before antibiotics,for example,all u could do for the pneumonia patient is watch,wait and hope.today,unless u are an infant or very elderly,u will probably survive pneumonia.think of the worst illness u had as a child-without modern medicine,thats the age u most likely would have died at.i had pneumonia when i was 11.if it had been in the 1800's,rather than the 1900's,i most likely never would have lived !!!!!!
2007-02-10 14:44:00 · answer #3 · answered by kyra k 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The wheel. Nothing else would have been possible without it. Every thing since has been impacted by it, even if it was in the smallest way.
2007-02-10 14:41:19 · answer #4 · answered by FRANKFUSS 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Electricity.
2007-02-10 14:51:24 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
the computer, nowadays everything is ever controlled by or uses computers in its operation, just think how computers have changed everything, computers are involved in nearly every aspect of modern day life in some way or another. oh and its a British invention
2007-02-10 17:52:15 · answer #6 · answered by supremecritic 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
automobile
changed the nation from a rural to an urban society
provided for thousands of new jobs in various industries
connected the entire nation with the notion of mobility
travel began in earnest
2007-02-10 17:59:25 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The printing press
2007-02-10 14:40:14 · answer #8 · answered by Parkerctlo 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Thermos bottle. It keeps cold things cold and it keeps hot things hot, but how does it know.
2007-02-10 18:53:08 · answer #9 · answered by Polyhistor 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
after the wheel, the printing press
and now the internet
2007-02-10 14:46:36 · answer #10 · answered by cg17 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋