What do you think the best / most useful invention is?

Question

There have been so many great inventors in our history, but which invention do you think is the best. Televisions, microwaves, computers, phones, cellphones, cars, airplanes? The choices are endless.

And why?

Answer 1

The wheel, as it is the basis for modern transportation, gears, and many other devices.

Answer 2

Technically, fire is a discovery rather than an invention, or else my vote would be for fire. I'd go with the wheel, too, as a pretty good choice. Agriculture is pretty high on my list of top inventions, because without it, we'd all be pretty hungry (or dead). The printing press is usually listed as being a very significant invention, because it enabled people to share ideas with other people in different places and times.

I saw a survey a while back (last year, maybe?) that asked what the most useful invention was. Choices were the computer, cell phone, car, toothbrush, internet, etc. The most popular answer turned out to be the toothbrush, because people had survived for hundreds of years without all of the modern technology that exists today, but couldn't get by without something as simple as a toothbrush. We may say we can't live without our cellphones, but they're more a quality-of-life issue rather than a true necessity.

Also, modern medicine has saved millions of lives, so I'd vote for "medicine" as a whole, including vaccines.

Answer 3

Here is a list and then make a decesion

1. Armstrong 2.Baldwin 3.Bell 4.Bendix 5.Benz 6.Brandenberer 7.Colt 8.Copper 9.Daguerre 10.Daimler 11.Deere 12.Diesel 12.eastman 13.Edison 14.Fairbanks 15.Fairchild 16.Field 17.Ford 18.Franklin 19.Fulton 20.Gatling 21.GoodYear 22.Gutenberg 23.Holland 24.Howe 25.Jefferson 26.Ketering 27.Langley 28. Marconi 29.MCcormick 30.Morgan 31.Newton 32.Nobel 33.Oliver 34.Pullman 35.Siemens 36.Singer 37. Swedenborg 38.Terry 39.Telsa 40.Watt 41.Welsbach 42.westinghouse 43.WHitney 44.Wright.

Yes, the choices are endless!!
But the one that is most helpful that we still use today, is Fire,and the wheel.. Good Luck on your research....

Answer 4

Telephone.

Without the land line network to connect telephones, we wouldn't have had the network on which the internet was born.

Telephones have evolved into cell phones which are now evolving into internet terminals.

Answer 5

the invention of writing and language are the two most important, because they are what constitute civilization. Without them, no other inventions would be possible.

Answer 6

if you consider that we are only here today, enjoying all of the electronic devices that both simplify and comlplicate life so much, ONLY becuase those primitives that came before us were able to survive and reproduce, then I must give it up to those who first fashioned weapons (clubs, spears and knives) to hunt for food and protect themselves from being eaten...without this first step, man would have never dominated earth to rule it...and subsequently, at the intellectual apogee if his existence, destroy it.

Answer 7

The lever. Try working the world with fingertips rather than pliers.

Answer 8

Definitely, wheel. Wheel is the mother of all inventions.

Answer 9

Most of them build on each other, use the same technology. I've always been partial to the wheel, myself.

Answer 10

Cell phones! I would be totally lost with out it. How did we survive in the 80's with out them!