What are the ten greatest inventions?

[battle donkey]

1. Toilet paper
2. TV Remote control
D. Cell phone with useless apps
4. Yahoo! Answers
5. BBQ sauce
10. Google street view

 

[BlahBlahYouToo]

fleshlight

 

[StageLeft]

pron

 

[Sho'Nuff]

Number 1 invention? The vagina

But this is a close second:

 

[JC]

Sliced bread, duh.

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

What most ATers don't get

Sex.

 

[classy]

In no particular order:

1) Wheel
2) Light bulb
3) Radio
4) Printing press
5) Automobile
6) Airplane
7) Antibiotics
8) X-ray machine
9) Telephone
10) Computers.

And yours?

Your list pretty much covers it all, but you picked general inventions, not specific.

1.Penicillin
2.Pentium Pro CPU
3.Wireless devices
4.Cell Phone
5.Broadband
6.Blood Plasma
7.Traffic Light
8.Ibuprofen
9.Train
10.A Bomb

 

[Noobtastic]

pornography.

 

[RadiclDreamer]

Transistor > computer
Electricity > light bulb
Internal combustion engine > automobile

I'd modify your list slightly, taking into account the inventions beneath the invention so that it looks something like this:

1) Wheel
2) Plough
3) Microbes
4) Vaccines
5) Antibiotics
6) Porn Printing press
7) Electricity
8) Internal combustion engine
9) Radio
10) Transistor

Ed.: Inventions, not discoveries... so, swap #3 with microscope and number 7 with Leyden jar, the inventions that allowed the discoveries.

Fixed that right up for ya!

 

[MovingTarget]

I'm surprised nobody included all the 'simple machines' that one learned about in grade school.

* Lever
* Wheel and axle
* Pulley
* Inclined plane
* Wedge
* Screw
Those should all be in the top list. Many other 'inventions' today simply build off of these simple mechanical devices. The only things I would add to my personal list would be:

*capacitor/battery
*transistor
*internal/external combustion engine (i.e. heat engines)
*electric motor

 

[PhoKingGuy]

frozen anal beads?

 

[Red Squirrel]

I'd go with the telephone. When you think about it, that was probably one of the biggest leap in communications ever. We still use them today and they are still considered the most reliable way to reach someone.

 

[So]

1. Fire
2. The Plow
3. Iron Smelting
4. Steam Engine
5. Dynamo (electric motor / generator)
6. The Vaccine
7. Penicillin
8. Indoor Plumbing
9. The Bessemer Process
10. The incandescent light.

 

[overst33r]

Microscopes, Refrigiration

 

[tboo]

I have one:

Internet Porn

 

[nonameo]

surprised no one has mentioned language/literature.

 

[IronWing]

Telescopes
Horoscopes
Microscopes

 

[IronWing]

surprised no one has mentioned language/literature.

This is ATOT, are you really surprised?

 

[CKent]

Internal combustion engine
Electrical power plant
Silicon chip

... Fleshlight

 

[darkxshade]

I would think god is THE greatest invention of all.

 

[disappoint]

Anand.

Meyer Lansky

 

[disappoint]

Number 1 invention? The vagina

But this is a close second:

Let me guess, you invented that didn't you?

 

[ussfletcher]

Language
Electricity
Fire
Antibiotics
Birth Control
Crop Rotation
Physics
Pizza
Mattresses
Cathode Ray Tubes

 

[disappoint]

^I am disappoint at ppl who still don't know the difference between discoveries and inventions.

 

[PM650]

Immediately thought of condoms when I saw this thread, but then I remembered I hate wearing them. :hmm:

I would think god is THE greatest invention of all.

omg this :thumbsup: