and why?
2007-07-05 08:17:16 · 31 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Other - Science
Electricity
2007-07-05 08:21:18 · answer #1 · answered by stillrael 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Mankind's most useful invention has been fire. The reason is that all other technology is based on fire. Only agriculture is not directly dependant on fire, but is almost always associated with it. Language was not so much an invention as it was an evolutionary process, as was the ability to walk upright. Tool use was also somewhat evolutionary, but got a great boost when fire began to be used as a tool itself.
We are now poised on the threshold of the next greatest of all human inventions. This will be the ability to read genetic information and create completely new species out of nothing but our own imaginations. We are probably a few centuries away from accomplishing this, but it will obviously change the world, not to mention ourselves.
2007-07-05 15:28:37 · answer #2 · answered by Roger S 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
The invention of the "Scientific method" the mother of all inventions. It allowed us to approach the world in a rational and logical manner.
2007-07-06 01:16:50 · answer #3 · answered by Karl F 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The light bulb of course. Not only is it the best, it's one of the most important. Lights are used in sooooo many things.and the invention of the light bulb paved the way for so many other inventions, for example the Easy Bake Oven, another great invention. lol
2007-07-05 15:27:06 · answer #4 · answered by e.kess 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
A house may be the best invention, because it is a place that you can call your own, and everyone living in it with you is a family. A house is somewhere you feel free to do what you need, and feel privatization from outsiders.
2007-07-05 15:26:15 · answer #5 · answered by The Calculus Alchemist 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The Internet because it has helped people communicate more widely with the world and it is a valuable tool to find information quickly and conveniently. But like all inventions it has it's bad sides but these are minor compared to the massive good it has done for people.
2007-07-05 15:24:51 · answer #6 · answered by minneyman89 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I think "Cloning" is the best invention if taken in a positive way. In future we can produce the extinct speices that r lost forever but now can be regained.
2007-07-05 15:57:25 · answer #7 · answered by sillu s 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Been thinking about this kind of question myself for a long time. But i think it has to be "GLASS".
Think living everyday in the modern world without a "glass".
I am not only thinking about an spectacles itself.
while i was driving in the middle of a stormy winter night.I was still comfortable inside the car with heating on.
Now without the glass in front of me it could have been a different story.
windows,television,cars,airplane etc.have one way or the other has parts made of GLASS. Even everyday drinking vessels are made of GLASS.
Now, there is one dis-advantage the mirror (sometimes) when i see myself in the morning (joke).
But can anyone disaggree with me?
2007-07-05 15:47:15 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Transistors. They changed how every electronic works and made everything smaller. Basically laptops, cellphones, pdas and mp3 were small because of this. Computers because a lot smaller as well.
2007-07-05 15:25:25 · answer #9 · answered by Zesler DT 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The bread cutter. Think about it. If not for factory bread cutters, the usual loaves you buy at the stores would look just crappy and fall apart.
2007-07-05 15:25:19 · answer #10 · answered by Captain 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋