what do you think the top 5 inventions are?

[macEfan]

i think:

1. the lightbulb
2.the automobile
3.the computer
4.the cell phone
5. the microwave oven

 

[stubeeef]

1. Printing Press
2. Steam Power &/or Combustion Engine
3. Electricity
4. Telephone
5. Vacumn Tube &/or Solid State

Honorable Mention: penicillin

 

[katie ta achoo]

1. viol (and all instrumental forms thereafter.. violin, cello, viola.. they're all viols!)
2. What's that thing.. electricity? Yea, that.
3. telecommunication/email
4. Transportation
5. Tofu

Delicious Tofu. I love you. Now, MAKE ME A SAMMICH!

 

[mkrishnan]

The wheel was pretty tight.

 

[jefhatfield]

1) agriculture
2) printing press
3) radio
4) television

 

[SamIchi]

The wheel was pretty tight.

Haha, indeed

I'd say the computer gotta be up there. Pizza pretty good too.. if that counts.

 

[mkrishnan]

Pizza pretty good too..

Oh, yes, and low rise pants. Definitely on the top five list.

 

[mad jew]

Things with Velcro on them - endless entertainment.

 

[katie ta achoo]

Oh, yes, and low rise pants. Definitely on the top five list.

Low-rise pants + pizza =

fine separately, but together.. oh no.

/my pants go to my waist
//took 6 hours and 7 stores to find pants that didn't show buttcrack
///I HATE WOMENS CLOTHING!

 

[jefhatfield]

Low-rise pants + pizza =

fine separately, but together.. oh no.

they almost always go together

actually, one has to be very thin to pull off low rise jeans...some normal weight people look much fatter with them on and with obesity at its all time high in america, at 64 percent or so, the design is not quite the best

 

[mac-er]

1. The printing press
2. The Internet
3. Wheel
4. Plumbing
5. Refrigerator

Was electricity really invented? I thought it was discovered.

 

[dmw007]

Not sure about the top five...but the numero uno invention is definitely the Mac!

 

[dmw007]

Was electricity really invented? I thought it was discovered.

more of a discovery.

 

[Lacero]

deja vu, hehe

1. The Toilet
2. The Telephone
3. The Transistor
4. The TV
5. The Teleporter (BT-9000) ~ will be invented soon.

 

[.:*Robot Boy*:.]

1. The transistor
2. The piano (or any other musical instrument, for that matter)
3. The refrigerator
4. Diet Coke
5. The sundial

 

[rainman::|:|]

too many to pick, but one i'm sure about is nanomachinery... but it'll be a few years before that becomes totally evident

electricity has to be in there... agriculture is good... writing was a big one... then probably something by Ronco...

 

[flyfish29]

Internet

Wheel/Automobile

Fridge (for the next one)
Ice cream

Tivo

 

[Demon Hunter]

1. Printing Press
2. Steam Power &/or Combustion Engine
3. Electricity
4. Telephone
5. Vacumn Tube &/or Solid State

Honorable Mention: penicillin

Whooooa, too much brain activity. Let's hit the brakes.

1. Women
2. Quake 3 Arena
3. Women
4. Pizza
5. Mac

Honorable mention: Mountain Dew

 

[Whyren]

1. viol (and all instrumental forms thereafter.. violin, cello, viola.. they're all viols!)

What, no stately baryton?

 

[Phat_Pat]

1. me
2. language
3. printing press
4. wheel
5. using electricity to properly power products

 

[Blue Velvet]

1. Cooking
2. Agriculture
3. Language
4. Writing
5. Eyeglasses

Honorable mentions: Weaving, Animal Husbandry, Tool Making etc.

 

[portent]

1. Indoor Plumbing & Modern Sanitation Outhouses would suck. Diseases seriously suck.
2. Writing/paper
3. The telegraph (or long-distance communication in general. The Internet works.)
4. Railroads
5. Steel tools.

 

[katie ta achoo]

What, no stately baryton?

Gross! No!

 

[XIII]

1. Silicon chip
2. Combustion engine
3. Phones
4. Wheel
5. Electricity

 

[portent]

Was electricity really invented? I thought it was discovered.

People of Ben Franklin's generation discovered electricity. People of Thomas Edison's invented it.