2007-05-14 11:24:47 · 11 answers · asked by Nneka L 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
This is a religious trick question right?
I'm going with GOD.
Next in line is the cave dude who invented the wheel.
But wait, God made him too, didn't he!
2007-05-14 11:33:17 · answer #1 · answered by SpongeBob 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I'm going with Johan Gutenburg (inventor of the movable type printing press). While he only had one invention, it completely changed the world. Before his press, books had to be copied by hand. Because of this, they were expensive: only rich people could afford to have them. Therefore, only weathly people were literate. With the advent of the printing press, not only were books more widely available, but education (reading and writing) became a much more coveted skill. The ideas of the Renaissance and the Reformation could never have been spread without a way to disseminate information to a wide audience. The printing press was a necessary vehicle for moving Europe out of the Middle Ages into the modern era.
As far as inventions that changed human history, this was one of the biggest, revolutionizing Europe much more profoundly than the telephone in the 20th century or the internet in the 21st.
2007-05-14 13:11:39 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
There are so many it's hard to pick. But Thomas Alva Edison created a lab where, not only he could work, other inventors were given the security to create. But then, I don't know much about the person who invented the wheel.
2007-05-14 11:33:55 · answer #3 · answered by txkathidy 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Difficult. Al-Jazari? Da Vinci? Franklin? Choose between "AC" Tesla and "DC" Edison? Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau for the World-Wide Web?
2007-05-14 11:50:18 · answer #4 · answered by Erik Van Thienen 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The top five.
Leonardo Da Vince
Nikola Tesla
Thomas Edison
Alan Turing
Isaac Newton
2007-05-14 11:32:20 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Thomas Edison
2007-05-14 11:31:53 · answer #6 · answered by fcas80 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Thomas Edison inventor of the light bulb qoute " I didn't fail I just found 10,000 ways to not make a light bulb".
2007-05-14 11:34:02 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
1-Thomas Edison-in my opinion. He gave us the light bulb, phonograph, and the motion picture, 3 things that have absolutely changed the world. One earth shattering invention is great, but three, thats amazing.
2-Alexander Graham(sp?) Bell-the telephone
3-Orville and Wilbur Wright-the airplane
4-Samuel Morse-The telegraph
5-Guglielmo Marconi-the radio
2007-05-14 11:34:38 · answer #8 · answered by filmnoirgirl16 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Sir John Harington : invented the flush toilet!
2007-05-14 13:49:05 · answer #9 · answered by CupCake 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Alexander Graham Bell....can you imagine life without a phone?
2007-05-14 11:32:53 · answer #10 · answered by Shortstuff13 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋