P.S. Electricity is a discovery, not an invention.
2007-10-26 10:05:16 · 20 answers · asked by ClubbingSeals.com 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Engineering
The wheel is the most obvious choice. Without it, we would have nothing else.
2007-10-26 10:14:28 · answer #1 · answered by Rick K 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Rational thought, humanism and the scientific method.
Everything else follows from these three.
Without the first madness reigns.
Without the second man is raped by random forces of his own making and life is no better than hell.
Without the third progress for the better is severely limited and the future is closed.
But if you have all three, you can live in a good world and dream of an even better one.
And before somebody says "But these are three!", I beg to differ. They go hand in hand and one can not have any one without the other two.
And before someone else says "But these are really discoveries!", I beg to differ, too. Nature needs and has neither, so they can not be discovered. They have to be invented, by man, for man.
2007-10-26 17:29:35 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Birth Control
2007-10-26 17:38:07 · answer #3 · answered by brett s 2 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Controlled fire. It's pretty hard to imagine most other things without that.
Right, fire is a discovery not an invention, but control was what put it to work.
2007-10-26 17:40:34 · answer #4 · answered by Tom V 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Cheese
2007-10-26 17:19:31 · answer #5 · answered by I can't think of a good name 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Agriculture.
It freed up some from having to scratch for food, so they could think, specialize, invent.
2007-10-26 17:20:12 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
The IC Chip. Without the IC Chip, personal computers would not exist.
2007-10-26 21:05:57 · answer #7 · answered by Whatever 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Computers becasue we can now complete tasks that used to take many hours in a few seconds.
2007-10-26 17:13:25 · answer #8 · answered by Rocketman 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
The wheel.
2007-10-27 01:03:38 · answer #9 · answered by master J 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Transistor .
2007-10-26 17:14:22 · answer #10 · answered by Tao N 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋