2007-04-11 17:02:13 · 18 answers · asked by rebekkah hot as the sun 7 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
wheel
2007-04-16 22:56:18 · answer #1 · answered by mertev 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Language
2007-04-12 01:16:03 · answer #2 · answered by brainstorm 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The traditional answer was the wheel, but I think it should be updated--I think the most groundbreaking invention now has been the computer.
2007-04-12 01:16:11 · answer #3 · answered by kayork 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Guttenberg printing press (1445) made it possible for mass dissemination of knowledge.
Books could now be printed en masse and no longer had to be handwritten.
On September 30, 1452, Johann Guttenberg's Bible was published becoming the first book to be published in volume.
2007-04-12 00:19:30 · answer #4 · answered by broward_tropic 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A discovery ?????
"Germ Theory"..............Franze Lister
That microorganisms were the direct cause of infectious disease.
Only time will tell if the greatest threat or salvation to continued human existance is an infectiouse disease or a cure that would have been impossible without this working theory.
2007-04-12 00:56:36 · answer #5 · answered by dougie 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mankind's building block since the age of modernization- Reinforced concrete.
2007-04-12 09:01:02 · answer #6 · answered by Matt 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The internet resulting in the sharing of Knowledge or more importantly ideas
2007-04-12 12:11:40 · answer #7 · answered by Ian H 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would say the airplane. It's a lot more exciting than running really fast on the ground and hope you gain altitude.
2007-04-12 00:21:53 · answer #8 · answered by John 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i could be an *** and say the condom but i really think our greates invention has been the tool. Life would have been tough until we kept finding new tools that would encourage our intentions.
2007-04-12 00:11:58 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Language.
Without the ability to transfer what is learned we would be sitting in caves waiting for lightning to strike in order to have fire...
The ability for the first person with fire to tell the next human what he learned.
2007-04-12 00:12:38 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
the wheel
the printing press
the aqueduct
medicine
the electric lightbulb
the semiconductor
the internal combustion engine
the sail
2007-04-12 09:39:47 · answer #11 · answered by Bob Mc 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋