What are the ten greatest inventions?

[Colt45]

Are we counting discoveries or inventions...

fire, alcohol, penecillin = discoveries.
wheel, vacuum tube, engines, transistor = inventions.

 

[JEDIYoda]

peanut butter

 

[ahenkel]

1. Language/the written word
2. farming
3. the library
4. pasteurization
5. modern birth control
6. the printing press
7. anesthesia
8. antibiotics
9. plumbing/sewer systems
10. the internet

 

[techs]

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

11) The discovery of inventions.

 

[QueBert]

blowjobs & fruit juices that has no actual fruit juice in them, but tastes like real fruit juice, and maybe blowjobs with poprocks in the girls mouth.

 

[UnklSnappy]

Not really an invention, but
the domestication / selective breeding of some gray wolves into dogs.

 

[techs]

Seriously, all these posts and no one mentioned Hookers and Blow?

 

[ahenkel]

Are hookers an invention or a discovery?

 

[ahenkel]

Or maybe an epiphany

 

[moshquerade]

Number 1 invention? The vagina

But this is a close second:

errrr.... uhhhhh.....okaaaaay....

 

[The Stig]

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

6.Blood Plasma

Dude... COME ON

 

[BurnItDwn]

Ale
Mead
Rum
Condom

everything else is secondary.

 

[TheVrolok]

Internet Porn.

fixed.

 

[Tempered81]

peanut butter

 

[Mr. Pedantic]

In no particular order:

1) Transistor
2) Fire
3) Paper
4) Antibiotics
5) Scientific method
6) Logic
7) Electromagnetism
8) Internal Combustion Engine
9) The internet
10) Plastic

 

[The Stig]

In no particular order:

2) Fire

 

[Platypus]

alternating current

 

[SlowSpyder]

Calandar / Time Keeping devices (sundial, clock, etc)

We obviously didn't invent time, but we needed a way of measuring it and predicting seasons, sun rise/set, used it for navigation, etc. I think our concept of time and creating a device being able to measure it was probably one of the more important inventions in human history. I didn't see it mentioned though.

 

[Mr. Pedantic]

So what about EM? Are you going to take me up on that as well? I know it's not an 'invention' per se, but it was discovered. I think it's fine. If you don't, then that's your problem. Don't burden me with it.

 

[The Stig]

So what about EM? Are you going to take me up on that as well? I know it's not an 'invention' per se, but it was discovered. I think it's fine. If you don't, then that's your problem. Don't burden me with it.

True, this is the 10 best discoveries thread... OH WAIT. Plus who "discovered" fire? Fuckin... dinosaurs?!

I hate you

 

[Sho'Nuff]

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

No. It is just one example of the thousands of "marital aid" patents that have passed through the system.

Back when I was a patent examiner at the PTO, I occasionally had to examine applications in the marital aid art. Made for some interesting searching.