2007-09-01 08:09:25 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
The knife. Without a knife no other inventions would ever have been possible.
2007-09-01 08:21:09 · answer #1 · answered by thelairdjim 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Best invention: Yahoo Answers. Allows you to ask the craziest questions and have 1st graders answer them with complete confidence.
2007-09-01 15:12:45 · answer #2 · answered by tarathilien 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The printing press by Guttenberg. Now books and the power of reading were available to the masses. Societies went from illiterate to literate.
2007-09-01 15:21:34 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
The often overlooked refrigerator. It has saved more lives than surgery. The reduction on food born illness has been a great contribution to overall health.
Read this...it's pretty interesting...
http://www7.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0510/resources_who.html
2007-09-01 21:08:06 · answer #4 · answered by Bogey 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Fire, and the wheel. These had the greatest effect on the most people and other advances.
2007-09-01 15:43:04 · answer #5 · answered by marconprograms 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Computers because it helped made life easier to communicate with other people and learn things with out using books.
2007-09-01 15:18:35 · answer #6 · answered by Darkskinnyboy 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Writing.
Without it, knowledge would not have been preserved and passed on and accumulated, and all other developments would not have occurred.
2007-09-02 06:01:48 · answer #7 · answered by Mark A 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cell phones and electricity. Cells because you can do anything on them. And electricity because we wouldn't have the stuff we have now with out it.
2007-09-01 16:06:24 · answer #8 · answered by ♥§♥§♥ 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The wheel. So college kids can go for beer runs.
2007-09-01 15:15:11 · answer #9 · answered by ta 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Indoor plumbing and toilet paper.
Not to be crass or anything, but it's the truth.
2007-09-01 15:19:31 · answer #10 · answered by The Snappy Miss Pippi Von Trapp 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋