What in your view, is the greatest invention?

Question

I have my own Idea

Answer 1

a thermometer, when inserted into the womans mouth she cant speak

Answer 2

Hey Denis,

No references on this one. Bread. Bread is the greatest invention. Billions of people eat it every day. But someone had to make it for the first time, put the ingredients together and bake it. And what about rising with yeast. It would be impossible to say who made that discovery now, but what a wonderful food invention.

Answer 3

Concorde....without a doubt.

Before this,... mach 2 flight was only accomplished by men in hermetically sealed flight suits in pressurised cockpits. Then someone had the crazy idea that supersonic flight could happen with 220 businessmen in suits demanding the product of a pretty nifty wine cellar while doing stuff that parachuting would normally have a role to play.

Concorde is not just the best...it is the most amazing!!!!!

Answer 4

The Thermos Bottle - a device that can keep cold things cold or hot things hot without a discerable way of distinguishing between the two.

Answer 5

. war. without this we would not be at the position we are today .you think of the things we use today that came from this.
jet engines .radar.. perspex .folk lift trucks aerosols.superglue .ground radar.atomic energy .pester sides.and the need to mass produce medicines such as penicillin .the list endless

Answer 6

The greatest ever invention is The X-Ray. Can you imagine how much harder diagnosis would be without this?

Answer 7

I agree the written word is, but what about the telephone? Imagine the counless lives saved just by contacting for help in seconds.

Answer 8

Greatest Inventions/Discoveries:

1)Compound microscope with 30x magnification - Robert Hooke
2)Electrical generator (dynamo) - Michael Faraday
3)Galvanometer - William Sturgeon
4)Infrared radiation - discovery commonly attributed to William
Herschel.
5)Newtonian telescope - Sir Isaac Newton
6)Micrometer - Sir William Gascoigne
7)the first bench micrometer that was capable of measuring to
one ten thousandth of an inch - Henry Maudslay
8)Sinclair Executive, the world's first small electronic pocket
calculator - Sir Clive Sinclair
9)Slide rule - William Oughtred [13]
10)Synthesis of coumarin, one of the first synthetic perfumes,
and cinnamic acid via the Perkin reaction- William Perkin
11)The Law of Gravity - Sir Issac Newton
12)DNA fingerprinting - Sir Alec Jeffreys
13)Vaccination - Edward Jenner

Answer 9

Vaccination. The cure or prevention of smallpox, rabies, TB, bubonic & pneumonic plague, sleeping sickness, and so many more.

Answer 10

Historically - writing. In the modern era - the computer.

Answer 11

Writing/Drawing