2007-07-04 12:12:35 · 17 answers · asked by bekka 3 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Other - Science
That's wildly up for debate, as the world is a big place, but it seems to me that every modern invention is pronounced to be the best thing SINCE sliced bread...ergo, sliced bread is the best invention. :0)
2007-07-04 13:50:35 · answer #1 · answered by huh? 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Many would probably say that the wheel was the best invention in the world, because it got everything rolling, but, personally, I think that it must be language, without which meaning would not exist, and neither would best, or invention, or world. Or, by the way, war, and death, and hate, etc. so language may also be the worst invention in the world, because when we use it to start war, which is another word, look at what great results we get! Ah, another word with a meaning. Hmmmm!
2007-07-04 20:54:29 · answer #2 · answered by haywoodwhy 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Agriculture
the move from hunter-gatherers to an agricultural society freed up part of society to work on other problems. Directly led to animal husbandry, domestication of animals, writing and mathematics.
Since it is so important to our society, few think of the basics as inventions. An inventiopn is a breakthrough that changes our way of doing things. To get the important ones, you must go back to the start.
good luck!
2007-07-04 21:08:01 · answer #3 · answered by eastacademic 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The printing press!
Invented by Johann Gutenberg in 1450.
2007-07-04 19:27:56 · answer #4 · answered by asgspifs 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
the chemical battery, invented in arabia and used for electroplating some 5000 years ago. from that came the coil, induction transformers, the light bulb, semiconductors and a whole slew of industries... then finally to undersea machines and the vastness of outerspace. where you bump into klingons,kirk,spock and scotty, who is deceased and was our neighbor in redmond. God bless him. now he has more power.....
2007-07-04 21:08:11 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Internet
2007-07-04 20:49:17 · answer #6 · answered by Mr. Graham 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I would prefer saying a pace maker for the heart or something like that but actually the telephone has become the greatest invention. Do you carry a cell phine?
2007-07-04 19:37:48 · answer #7 · answered by RICHARD F 1 · 0⤊ 2⤋
The light-bulb. It started the entire electrical revolution. That revolution gave us electric motors, telephones, radio, TV, computers, the Internet, microwave ovens, air conditioners, refrigerators, electric heaters, etc. The light-bulb started it all!
2007-07-04 19:23:39 · answer #8 · answered by Doctor J 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
1904 ice cream in a waffle cone
2007-07-04 19:36:18 · answer #9 · answered by calired67 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
the internet
2007-07-04 19:19:36 · answer #10 · answered by Mom 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋