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over a year ago
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Opinions please without the use of Google.
What would people say is the single most important invention of all time?
Electricity?
The seat belt?
Mathematics?
The Internet? Apple tango?
The list is long but there must be one that without it everything else would be magoo. |
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followed closely by the game of Snap  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Condoms  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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String |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Electricity |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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The Hitachi wand ? |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Venetian Blinds ...... Without them its curtains for everyone |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"Farming"
Arable or pastoral? |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"The wheel "
Don't think so.
Huge chunks of the world don't or didn't use it.
Even in Europe its importance is overated. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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its probably the rock(used as a weapon or tool) |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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If we're not being entirely serious...
Espresso |
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Antibiotics, without them we could die of a simple infection. |
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By *az_1976Man
over a year ago
Peterborough/Huntingdon |
"Farming
Arable or pastoral? "
Arable |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"its probably the rock(used as a weapon or tool)"
Crap actor tho  |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"Farming
Arable or pastoral?
Arable"
Well in that case, no. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Religion for many people X |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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As said before fire, without it the human race would of been wiped out so nothing else would of mattered |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"As said before fire, without it the human race would of been wiped out so nothing else would of mattered "
Not an invention tho really, more of a discovery of a natural phenomenon. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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But if we're being serious: string.
Because thread is thin string. Without it no clothes so can't live (in reasonable numbers) outside temperate zone.
Rope is thick string, without it, well, quite a lot. Including arable farming (need it for most ooerations).
I offer you string. I credit it to Bill Bryson.
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By *ee VianteWoman
over a year ago
Somewhere in North Norfolk |
Birth control
and vibrators!  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"As said before fire, without it the human race would of been wiped out so nothing else would of mattered "
How so? |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Language/writing/communication |
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"As said before fire, without it the human race would of been wiped out so nothing else would of mattered
Not an invention tho really, more of a discovery of a natural phenomenon. "
No, they used tools to make fire independently of volcanoes or lighting or natural fires. The ability to make fire was invented/developed. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Antiseptics."
Donnie Darko is smarter than me so I'll go with that too. |
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"As said before fire, without it the human race would of been wiped out so nothing else would of mattered
How so? "
we might have frozen in the ice age. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Soap. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Jeans.
They spent 13 years and $3billion mapping human jeans so they must be important. |
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By *yrdwomanWoman
over a year ago
Putting the 'cum' in Eboracum |
"As said before fire, without it the human race would of been wiped out so nothing else would of mattered
Not an invention tho really, more of a discovery of a natural phenomenon.
No, they used tools to make fire independently of volcanoes or lighting or natural fires. The ability to make fire was invented/developed. "
I thought Prometheus gave it to us. Poor bastard's been having his liver eaten every day since. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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Personally I think it's glass.
Think about it, how it's everywhere, bottles, windows, windscreens, glasses, test tube's, mirrors, cat's eye's, the light bulb syringes the list is endless.
Something we take for granted yet has affected pretty much everything around us.
That or
Chicken tikka byriani.
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Language.
Progress has increased in line with the increase in our ability to share information with each other |
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Penicillin .....I think that's the base for most antibiotics not sure tho but I believe the chain is held securely in only 3 locations worldwide so it sounds pretty important shit ...  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Tampons - imagine if we still just had rags!
Sarah  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"As said before fire, without it the human race would of been wiped out so nothing else would of mattered
How so? we might have frozen in the ice age. "
Not so, fire didn't save us, we lived in the temperate zone. |
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The PN junction. It allowed the development of transistors, then Integrated circuits, which gave rise to affordable, practical computers, mobile phones, tablets and the whole interweb |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Opinions please without the use of Google.
What would people say is the single most important invention of all time?
Electricity?
The seat belt?
Mathematics?
The Internet? Apple tango?
The list is long but there must be one that without it everything else would be magoo. "
Not an invention, but surely mathematics is bedrock of so many advancements. |
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By *LCCCouple
over a year ago
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"Tampons - imagine if we still just had rags!
Sarah "
Many places in the world today still do. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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The wheel overrated?
Without it we would not have the majority of inventions that followed |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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You mean like a typical invention ie television!.
Mmmmm probably newcomens engine!
It revolutionised eroei |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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What about the bow and arrow?
Or the flint axe? |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"The wheel overrated?
Without it we would not have the majority of inventions that followed"
what tool did they use to create the first wheel? |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"The wheel overrated?
Without it we would not have the majority of inventions that followed
what tool did they use to create the first wheel?"
3d printer |
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By *LCCCouple
over a year ago
Cambridge |
The bendy-bus? |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Lego |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Penicillin .....I think that's the base for most antibiotics not sure tho but I believe the chain is held securely in only 3 locations worldwide so it sounds pretty important shit ... "
The chain?
Also penicillin isnt invented its just the secretions of a specific mould.
(You can grow it at home) |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"The wheel overrated?
Without it we would not have the majority of inventions that followed
what tool did they use to create the first wheel?
3d printer "
that's more important then.
now how did they invent the 3D printer? |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"The wheel overrated?
Without it we would not have the majority of inventions that followed"
Yes, agreed, since the industrial revolution. But before that? Not so important. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Language |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Here's another...
The horse collar |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"The wheel overrated?
Without it we would not have the majority of inventions that followed
what tool did they use to create the first wheel?
3d printer
that's more important then.
now how did they invent the 3D printer? "
Derrr they ordered one from amazon. |
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"Penicillin .....I think that's the base for most antibiotics not sure tho but I believe the chain is held securely in only 3 locations worldwide so it sounds pretty important shit ...
The chain?
Also penicillin isnt invented its just the secretions of a specific mould.
(You can grow it at home)"
Well it's not that important then is it ? |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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By *artytwoCouple
over a year ago
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"Religion for many people X "
We'll put that down as a curse shall we.
We need to differentiate between Invention and Discovery
Fire was a discovery
Wheel an invention
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"As said before fire, without it the human race would of been wiped out so nothing else would of mattered
How so? we might have frozen in the ice age.
Not so, fire didn't save us, we lived in the temperate zone. "
Yeah ok. Next! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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The flush toilet!! Closely followed by Jack Daniels & blowjobs |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"The wheel overrated?
Without it we would not have the majority of inventions that followed
what tool did they use to create the first wheel?
3d printer
that's more important then.
now how did they invent the 3D printer?
Derrr they ordered one from amazon. "
or maybe they printed it with another 3D printer.
The chicken was an important invention. Thank you Colonel Sanders |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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The number zero..... |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"The number zero....."
Good one! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I think the invention of the wheels contribution is overinflated!!! Ho ho ho - my work here is done!!! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Fire |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Antibiotics, without them we could die of a simple infection."
Unfortunately due to their overuse through Doctors prescribing them unnecessarily we are now at more risk of dying because of them because the strains of bugs have mutated. Victims of our own success? |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"The pendulem"
Is that like the pendulum? |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"The number zero....."
pretty sure the number 1was probably invented first.
I mean.
Monkies counting out bananas didn't go zero, one, two, three...
They just went ooooo Ahhhhhhhh eee ooooo one, two, three....
Oh I say shouldn't it go zero, one, two.... |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Antibiotics, without them we could die of a simple infection.
Unfortunately due to their overuse through Doctors prescribing them unnecessarily we are now at more risk of dying because of them because the strains of bugs have mutated. Victims of our own success?"
It isn't doctors - it's vets! |
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"Opinions please without the use of Google.
What would people say is the single most important invention of all time?
Electricity?
The seat belt?
Mathematics?
The Internet? Apple tango?
The list is long but there must be one that without it everything else would be magoo. "
the flushing toilet,I reckon the wheel was probably more discovered than invented. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"the wheel"
was my immediate thought |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Opinions please without the use of Google.
What would people say is the single most important invention of all time?
Electricity?
The seat belt?
Mathematics?
The Internet? Apple tango?
The list is long but there must be one that without it everything else would be magoo.
the flushing toilet,I reckon the wheel was probably more discovered than invented."
found one in a canal?
Some think the sewage system was a mistake. Would have been better to go with dirt toilets. |
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"The bendy-bus? "
No the bendy bus is one of the worse things you just look in Toronto where they are replacing them with British Double Deckers. They keep running in all weathers. |
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"Religion for many people X
We'll put that down as a curse shall we.
We need to differentiate between Invention and Discovery
Fire was a discovery
Wheel an invention
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I would say the wheel was a discovery too it was honed for use but nevertheless a discovery,round things have always rolled. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Opinions please without the use of Google.
What would people say is the single most important invention of all time?
Electricity?
The seat belt?
Mathematics?
The Internet? Apple tango?
The list is long but there must be one that without it everything else would be magoo. "
For me - and every woman I'd say - it has to be contraception!
Because of it we can now have careers - which was almost impossible before when we spent years in a permanently pregnant state!
We can also be polygamous - which only men could do before - as the risk of getting pregnant and 'disgraced' has been taken away!
Contraception puts us on an (almost) level playing field to men - without it we'd still be living in men's shadows and our only options would be marriage and motherhood! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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The needle
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"The pendulem
Is that like the pendulum?"
Fkin swingers |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Antibiotics, without them we could die of a simple infection.
Unfortunately due to their overuse through Doctors prescribing them unnecessarily we are now at more risk of dying because of them because the strains of bugs have mutated. Victims of our own success?
It isn't doctors - it's vets!"
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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the sun |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"The number zero.....pretty sure the number 1was probably invented first.
I mean.
Monkies counting out bananas didn't go zero, one, two, three...
They just went ooooo Ahhhhhhhh eee ooooo one, two, three....
Oh I say shouldn't it go zero, one, two.... "
We had numbers for a long time...true mathematics only came about after the invention of the concept of zero (Indian invention). This allowed complex calculations on which are based most science, engineering and other things which then led to an explosion of other inventions.
I therefore postulate that zero is the mother of most of the inventions mentioned elsewhere on this thread....it is even wheel shaped! |
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"the sun"
Yes mankind invented the sun (you do mean the newspaper yes?) |
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I see a lot of people saying the wheel which is generally held as the most important invention, however I would suggest that it is the 2nd most important invention.
The most important invention is the lever without which the wheel would never have been invented.  |
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"Penicillin .....I think that's the base for most antibiotics not sure tho but I believe the chain is held securely in only 3 locations worldwide so it sounds pretty important shit ...
The chain?
Also penicillin isnt invented its just the secretions of a specific mould.
(You can grow it at home)"
The original mould is the one still used an was produced from a cantaloupe in the1940's
Earnest 'chain' was part of the team that originally worked with the mass production....
The original mould was secretly positioned at 3 locations worldwide.
You can grow penicillin at home for sure but I don't think it is guaranteed to work |
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"The number zero.....pretty sure the number 1was probably invented first.
I mean.
Monkies counting out bananas didn't go zero, one, two, three...
They just went ooooo Ahhhhhhhh eee ooooo one, two, three....
Oh I say shouldn't it go zero, one, two.... "
The number zero enabled more advanced mathematics....someone invented a symbol to represent nothing. How abstract is that? |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I see a lot of people saying the wheel which is generally held as the most important invention, however I would suggest that it is the 2nd most important invention.
The most important invention is the lever without which the wheel would never have been invented. "
This isn't true. We've already established it was done on a 3D printer.
Keep up |
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Clothing
Electricity
Plane
Internet
Glasses
My Balls |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"the sun
Yes mankind invented the sun (you do mean the newspaper yes?)"
and god said "let there be light!" |
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"the sun
Yes mankind invented the sun (you do mean the newspaper yes?)
and god said "let there be light!" "
Well I guess man did invent "god" so by proxy I will let you have that one |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"The number zero.....pretty sure the number 1was probably invented first.
I mean.
Monkies counting out bananas didn't go zero, one, two, three...
They just went ooooo Ahhhhhhhh eee ooooo one, two, three....
Oh I say shouldn't it go zero, one, two....
The number zero enabled more advanced mathematics....someone invented a symbol to represent nothing. How abstract is that? "
Yes Steve.....see my previous post! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Thought long and hard and it's actually football |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"This isn't true. We've already established it was done on a 3D printer.
Keep up"
Bet a lever was used to move the printer (and the stuff that made the printer) before it was installed...  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Sliced bread |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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The sky remote. How else would you measure things?! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"This isn't true. We've already established it was done on a 3D printer.
Keep up
Bet a lever was used to move the printer (and the stuff that made the printer) before it was installed... "
This is certainly likely.
In that case the moped they used to deliver the lever to make the 3D printer to create the first wheel is importanter. |
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By *LCCCouple
over a year ago
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Gravity, it must have been shit before Newton. |
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"This isn't true. We've already established it was done on a 3D printer.
Keep up
Bet a lever was used to move the printer (and the stuff that made the printer) before it was installed...
This is certainly likely.
In that case the moped they used to deliver the lever to make the 3D printer to create the first wheel is importanter."
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Gravity, it must have been shit before Newton."
Have you not seen how much fun Tim Peake is having? |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Gravity, it must have been shit before Newton."
That made me think about having a shit without gravity......now desperately trying to unthink that thought! |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"This isn't true. We've already established it was done on a 3D printer.
Keep up
Bet a lever was used to move the printer (and the stuff that made the printer) before it was installed...
This is certainly likely.
In that case the moped they used to deliver the lever to make the 3D printer to create the first wheel is importanter.
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Did the moped have wheels? Where did they come from? |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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103 posts and not one of you has said gaffa tape.
Without it the world would fall apart.
Except the bits held together with blue tack....... |
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The most important Discovery would be fire; but it is a discovery, rather than invention.
So the most important " invention" would be the very first tool; even if that is just the first rock that was picked up and used to crack a nut, or kill a rabbit for food; we discovered how to use tools.
Tools ... Fnnahh fnnahhh yes, this is sex site lol |
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"Making fire. "
Yeah I'm with fire. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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In light of what is just about to happen in the Capital One Cup at Anfield, I would say penalty shoot outs! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Gravity, it must have been shit before Newton.
That made me think about having a shit without gravity......now desperately trying to unthink that thought!"
Nurse, bring the mind bleach, STAT!!!!!! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Those little things on penknives for getting stones out of horses hooves. |
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Gentle ribbing sexual banter.. Duh. Xx. |
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By *amesB66Man
over a year ago
St Peter Port |
"String"
String is a very important thing. Rope is thicker, but string is quicker. Spike Milligan
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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CONTRACEPTION
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By (user no longer on site)
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"This isn't true. We've already established it was done on a 3D printer.
Keep up
Bet a lever was used to move the printer (and the stuff that made the printer) before it was installed...
This is certainly likely.
In that case the moped they used to deliver the lever to make the 3D printer to create the first wheel is importanter.
Did the moped have wheels? Where did they come from?"
I heard it hovered. Apparently they all hovered until some bugger went round sticking wheels on them. |
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Glass. The Chinese never developed it past glazing their teacups and thus never developed lenses which meant that as people aged, they could still read, writer and do further research. Hence, they had an arrestive culture technologically until lenses were introduced from the west. |
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By *b586Couple
over a year ago
pemberton twp |
"Venetian Blinds ...... Without them its curtains for everyone "
Hahahah ! |
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When I said fire I mean the invention of the method of making fire. One could argue that wheels were discovered via rolling stuff on tree trunks. I might go with writing because it kept knowledge for a longer period than memory and could be read by others all exactly the same. |
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"You mean like a typical invention ie televi!.
Mmmmm probably newcomens engine!
It revolutionised eroei"
Think you mean energy..and you are correct his engine was the first to produce energy mechanically, thus liberating the means whereby our industrialised society has allowed us to enjoy standards of living unprecedented in the history of humankind. |
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porridge |
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If it isn't sliced bread...then why do we say things are "the best thing since sliced bread"?....and what was the best thing before sliced bread?
(Not counting unsliced bread)....or would it be a Greggs Pastie? |
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Gunpowder changed a lot of things.... |
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It really is glass - according to QI anyway, I remember watching the episode it was on, along with the explanation I posted above.
The whole issue is debatable and so many things depend on precedents, which in themselves might not be remarkable, but taken in conjunction with other developments, have lead to major breakthroughs |
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"CONTRACEPTION
CONTRACEPTION
CONTRACEPTION
CONTRACEPTION
CONTRACEPTION
CONTRACEPTION
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Ribbed condoms - for the lady's enjoyment . X |
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"It really is glass - according to QI anyway, I remember watching the episode it was on, along with the explanation I posted above.
The whole issue is debatable and so many things depend on precedents, which in themselves might not be remarkable, but taken in conjunction with other developments, havie lead to major breakthroughs"
I don't recommend a breakthrough with glass. It would be clear to see it would be a pain. |
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"Gunpowder changed a lot of things...."
Unfortunately guy Fawkes failed ... |
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Velcro! How else will I keep my feet on the ground |
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well I said a tool,like a rock..
but the most important invention?
it is the computer...and it'll end up being something that might just be part of your body and mind.Some people think thats science fiction..I wager not, its in its infancy at present and really only being used as ways to aid disabled people(check the bionic eye for instance),but it'll at some point be consumer tech..
mobile phones,googleglass etc, will all look like ancient tech soon enough. |
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over a year ago
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Mass production.
The industrial revolution right here in England paved the way worldwide for what we have today, Aces in my book.
Him |
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string and the knot. has to be the most important. closely followed by the axle |
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The analytical engine. |
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time essentially... |
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string was discovered more importantly the knot, which mace fibers useful. has to be the most important. closely followed by the axle wheels were shite before we invented axles |
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The letter box so people had to learn to read |
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Although personally I think it's useless I'm quite surprised the block button hasn't been mentioned numerous times |
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Actually I think it may have been the discovery that putting a penis into a vagina causes pleasure  |
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"Soap.
And deodorants "
Judging by some people I've encountered, these are things that are yet to be universally discovered  |
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By *artytwoCouple
over a year ago
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SCRATCH
It's what everything is made from |
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The one thing that everyone here has unthinkingly done... |
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Make up |
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The human language. It began before there could be writing and it is vastly different to other animals ways of communication. |
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Probably the electric light bulb |
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"Probably the electric light bulb "
The internet. |
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"Opinions please without the use of Google.
What would people say is the single most important invention of all time?
Electricity?
The seat belt?
Mathematics?
The Internet? Apple tango?
The list is long but there must be one that without it everything else would be magoo. "
The most important invention is life |
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False eyelashes |
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Bacon! |
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Bacon fries must be close |
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Banana fritters..
Or the wheel |
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fifty shades of grey..
oops..
I mistyped |
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My anal flesh light amazing !! |
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"Does written language count ?"
That was evolution more than invention.
The printing press would be a good shout though. |
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Window blinds....cause if wasnt for them it would be curtains for us all |
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oh and nylons 
