What are the most important inventions, apart from the wheel and discovering fire, that have shaped the civilization – if not for which today’s society would be drastically different?
Thanks!
I meant a list of inventions, like sea/air travel, telephone, etc.
Thanks for the responses so far!
cars are important
#1 by Chris S on August 30, 2010 - 9:31 pm
Antiseptics – unless you like wound infection and surgery infection.
how about the inventor of rubber – thats a good one
or the inventor of booze
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#2 by Barry Bonds Jr{The Dunk Champ} on August 30, 2010 - 10:02 pm
cars are important
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#3 by adorabull_deb on August 30, 2010 - 10:28 pm
Television
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#4 by Jordan on August 30, 2010 - 10:35 pm
The printing press.
Where would we be without it?
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#5 by Phocion Timon on August 30, 2010 - 11:08 pm
Tools.
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#6 by Sixfeettall on August 30, 2010 - 11:49 pm
Medicine — (How did they figure out which plants were good for which problems? Always wondered that.)
Boats,which made far-reaching travel possible.
Tools like stone axes and wooden spears that made chopping wood, hunting and cutting up food possible.
Clothing.
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#7 by salishlady on August 31, 2010 - 12:06 am
Electricity, plumbing, vaccinations,
edit: add the loom (for weaving) and the printing press.
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#8 by Edwin on August 31, 2010 - 12:48 am
I have long contended that the printing press is the single most important invention of mankind. Once books and pamphlets could be mass-produced and widely distributed the dissemination of information quickly followed. Ideas that could only be shared by a few could now be shared by many. The printing press also created the demand for wide-spread schooling since even the poor could buy or borrow a newspaper or book.
The printing press also contributed to important changes in government and religion. Civilization went from a largely illiterate population dependent on being told what was in those mysterious things called "books" to actually being able to read them. No longer could an educated few control the masses by deciding what information should – or should not – be shared.
Everything we have today is, I believe, a result of the printing press.
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61 yrs. of life experience.
#9 by Antares on August 31, 2010 - 1:08 am
-the Zero in Maths
-Tools
-Penicillin
-The internet
-Printing press
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#10 by Wayneelvis on August 31, 2010 - 1:42 am
The internet…The cell phone..and the football…
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#11 by Jason on August 31, 2010 - 2:22 am
Antiseptics hands down.
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Anthro Student
#12 by George L on August 31, 2010 - 2:41 am
To gradually obliterate thee world.
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#13 by Gerry Mander on August 31, 2010 - 3:01 am
The toilet and indoor plumbing. Try using an outhouse during the winter months in Fargo, ND.
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