what do you think the top 5 inventions are?

[CanadaRAM]

Consciousness.

Some days I prefer the alternative, however...

 

[noaccess]

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[dcv]

Dunno about my top five inventions but somewhere near the very top of that list would be my ghd ceramic hair straighteners. An absolute godsend.

(sorry, a very girly-girl response)

 

[Jesus]

1. Wheel
2. Roads
3. Steam petrol and electric engines
4. Boat/car (can't decide)
5. Electricity (& Semi-conductor chips)

 

[stubeeef]

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

Honorable Mention: penicillin

And for my hedonist side

Great single malt scotch
Comfortable shoes
Pillow top mattresses
Fabulous Beer
Vacations
Bonus Checks
Food Delivery
TV Remote Control
Ibuprofen
Panther Football
Sushi
Hammocks
Hot Water (bath and showers) Indoor pumbing and strong flushing toilets
spam
Babysitters

 

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[skunk]

And for my hedonist side

Great single malt scotch
Comfortable shoes
Pillow top mattresses
Fabulous Beer
Vacations
Bonus Checks
Food Delivery
TV Remote Control
Ibuprofen
Panther Football
Sushi
Hammocks
Hot Water (bath and showers) Indoor pumbing and strong flushing toilets
spam
Babysitters

Which part of "five" don't you understand?

 

[Macaddicttt]

I think one invention that's often overlooked but is really, really important is the washing machine. Think of how much work went into washing clothes before. It was an all-day chore. Now just pop them in the washer, pop them in the dryer, and fold. It must have been one of the most liberating inventions for women.

 

[Macaddicttt]

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

Actually, the violin, cello, viola, aren't directly descended from the viol. They form their own separate instrument family. Oddly enough, the double-bass is a viol, though. Check out the different Wikipedia articles about the viol and violin.

 

[Les Kern]

i think:

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

Cell phone? Microwave?
There is no other list needed:
1. Language
2. Printing Press
3. Automobile
4. Wireless
5. TV
6. front-release bras

 

[eRondeau]

1. Window screens.
2. Nails & screws.
3. Corrective lenses.
4. Standard time.
5. The written word.

 

[stubeeef]

Which part of "five" don't you understand?

Oh yea one of my fav things...Make'n up my own rules when I want to!

 

[Chacala_Nayarit]

Maxwell's equations. Now if that's not geeky!

Antiseptics, sanitation is a good thing.

 

[pseudobrit]

Bicycle
Transistor
Airfoil
Printing Press
Roads

Above all, the scientific method.

 

[Giaguara]

1 internet
2 writing
3 chocolate
4 tea
5 contraceptives

well not necessarily in that order ...

 

[iGary]

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

Bingo - the integrated circuit. I wanted to see who posted it first.

THE most important invention of last century, bar none.

 

[Don't panic]

There are really too many to count, but I’ll break down in three classes:

1. Ancient, basic sweeping inventions/dicoveries:

Seafearing
Writing
Agriculture
Metallurgy
Sewing/weaving​

Modern inventions:

Transistor
Internal combustion engine
Antibiotics
Electric battery/AC technology
Printing press​

"commodities"

photocopier
remote control
music on the radio
espresso
and of course the grapefruit knife
​

 

[mpw]

...a weight loss pill without any bad side effects...

...and it would rank as the best medical discovery...ever...and i tend to agree having seen a lot of misery working in a hospital

the big and nearly unbeatable killers are heart disease, cancer, stroke, and diabetes and all of them are tied in with obesity, overeating, and high cholesterol in one form or another...and they are often preventable diseases which often rely a lot on our frail human willpower and therefore those diseases beat us most of the time...

I disagree,a weight loss pill would be a terrible idea.

Surely if you give a bunch of fat people a pill that allows them to lose weight there's no incentive to stop stuffing huge amounts of food into their mouths. A weight loss pill with no side effects is a nice idea but wouldn't necessarily combat heart disease etc. that you've mentioned and if I'm right would just make matters worse for many (myself included). How many people would eat more if they didn't have to worry about their weight and what pressure would that put on food supplies?

 

[Agent Smith]

1. Remote control;
2. Sliced bread;
3. Remote controlled bread-slicer;
4. Mock-ham fried rice (mock-ham made from tofu and REAL Chinese fried rice; I'm eating it right now...)

5. (in all seriousness) Literacy (without which we would have very little of the above posts)...

 

[xli_ne]

the toothbrush was pretty sweet

 

[Skareb]

Sliced bread,
The internal combustion motor (including Piston Miller&Otto cycles , Rotary, scoth yoke)
The silicone chip
The atomic bomb
the wheel

Jordan

 

[macEfan]

Sliced bread,
The internal combustion motor (including Piston Miller&Otto cycles , Rotary, scoth yoke)
The silicone chip
The atomic bomb
the wheel

Jordan

why the atomic bomb?

 

[puckhead193]

serious - some that weren't mentioned
1. the car, walking is such a pain
2. radio
3. the personal computer
4. cameras - so we can document things
5. condoms/birth control

non-serious
-starbucks
-chocolate
-apple/mac/OS X/ITMS
-navigation -GPS, every car should have it

 

[Deepdale]

serious - some that weren't mentioned
1. the car, walking is such a pain
2. radio
3. the personal computer
4. cameras - so we can document things
5. condoms/birth control

The car (as "automobile") and computer were covered by the person who started this thread, while #5 came under the earlier category of contraception.

 

[Apple]

1. The Wheel
2. Lightbulb
3. Telephone
4. McDonalds
5. hot tub