Greatest Inventions of All Time

I knew the wheel personally She's a great gal!

most important by far.

The wheel is the best:)

Wheel is the greatest invention of all time. Its still in use today more than four thousand years ago. Wheel has a hand in everything and most modern inventions today.

Yeah wheel is #1. Try making electricity without a wheel.

This should actually be no. 1. Life without the simple whell is extremely difficult. Without the invention of the wheel, ancient times would have been at a standstill, and we wouldn't exist!

Guys, they mean the discovery of how to harness and use electricity. They just put electricity for short

This is not an invention but rather a discovery. The devices that allowed us to harness electricity, that is an invention. Not electricity itself.

oh yea

Can we please change this to "man-made" inventions? I'm a follower of Christ, but the so-called "Christians" on here are posting ridiculously and when looking into their comments, condescendingly.

It was discovery of electricity,not invention....In my frame,wheelz s greatest invention ever made by humans.

Ben Franklin didn't invent electricity. He didn't discover it either. He discovered that lightening was electricity. This invention should probably be Michael Faraday and the electric motor. One of the first uses of electricity.

according to me the best invention in this world is nature ,because without nature nothing would be possible. so i believe god has made nature human just use it .

"These comments are so sad. Electricity was created by God. And man discovered how to access and use it. Thank God for his creation." there is no such thing as a god only alien life dip****

everything runs on it... no electricity well we will have a black out and everything that follows it... alex m

well sort of speakng if it wasent for any of this we will be blank....

Perhpas the simplification of saying electricity was invented rubs some the wrong way. However i believe you are all intelligent enough to realize this is a broad generalization for so many inventions to harness this natural occurence that naming one alone would not cover. If i said AC power transformers was the second greatest you all would disagree easily. If i said IC chips were the greatest we would disagree. If i said gate logic was the greatest invention that would be plain stupid. However claiming the field full of inventors who found so many applications is the most sufficient way to say this.

I completely disagree with this one. First off, electricity is not an invention, electricity has been known and been around for thousands of years. electricity has only been recently been harness and controlled, which is not the same thing as inventing. Its like saying Fire was invented. No one invented fire, its been around for a long time, just been harness and controlled a lot longer than electricity.

"Invented" electricity? He discovered it.

Thank science for this creation.*

These comments are so sad. Electricity was created by God. And man discovered how to access and use it. Thank God for his creation.

Electricty is a force of nature which has always existed, by nature of what it is. The ability to harness this electricty, upon discovering it, is the real revoltuionary Invention

Electricity is a DISCOVERY not an INVENTION!! Dumbasses

electricity wasn't INVENTED nvented by men it was invented by mother nature,men DISCOVERED electricity

without electrisity we would not have nO.1 xD

Ben Franklin did not invent electricity, he basically discovered it.

That's true without electricity I don't think advance technology will ever be made.

I'd put language higher than the wheel.

i don't think anyone really invented language.

How about the alphabet allows us to communicate.

sign lang

um accullay i can

I think computer is more important than the internet. Reason why is because without computers there is no internet plain and simply.

Better question: how is the transistor not above both the computer and the internet?!?!

How is the internet higher on the list then the computer. The internet wouldn't even exist if the computer wasn't invented

Without the computer than there be a internet and no internet meaning Noooooooooo google

this is number 1

This is #1.

with out the printing press no one would know anything!

You mean the world wide web. Sites are part of the web structure, the info, the shopping, the homework research, all form the WWW. The Internet is a different idea. It is the connection that allows information to travel to the broadcasting interface of the web that you commonly see when you open your browser. Still, Pete is right, the Internet itself is still advancing.

LOL!

without it i wouldnt be looking at this site

I can't do homework without it . without it i'd die!!!

seriously

I love that thya invented the internet cause I would not live without it.

awesome

The internet was the best invention ever! XD

We would not be able to cure many diseases without them. We can save alot of the world using them, rather then not.

What makes antibiotics so special is that it probably saved the lives of future inventors. Many other inventions are/were inevitable but antibiotics were an accident.

Population growth is becoming the downfall of humanity. Earth cannot sustain 7 billion people, let alone one billion.

Yay toilets

THE CAN

john crapper

too true

everyone SHOULD use it everyday!

Aren't toilets brilliant

THE TOILET ROCkS

That it is the best invention ever along the diode, it has transformed the technology revolution, without this we could not have 90% of our lives !!!

This should be listed before computers... personal computers would not be possible without

Yeaa this invention is soo much usefullness! Without it our electronics would be HUGGEEEE like the size of CARRRRs!! ok.

Of course numbers are an invention. They are man made constructs to express natural phenomena. Numbers are concepts, they do not exist outside our consciousness.

numbers is not an invention

C'mon. Where would we be without paper? Science, math, toilets, literature, etc. all used paper as a medium to inform and inspire the general public. Books, magazines, pamphlets, etc. we see them everyday. Where would we be without it.

Why are video games more important than the others. Without video games the world would be a better place

The best thing ever

With out video games, there is no fun at all!

the bomb

yeah

I would be smarter without it, its to distracting. =O

yes

I know exactly what you mean!

what would you use at night, a candle would burn out

this should be in top 5. End of hunting/gathering people stop moving, villages and towns form, foods like rice and wheat dominate, population grows, animals domesticated, job specialisation develops, more disease as people live closer, need to protect food from those who don't have it therefore defence of towns and wars etc etc

"Aeroplane"

its 1 word airplane

It is the engine that revolutionized travel and manufacturing. Railways and ships and factories flourished thanks to it. :)

should be number one.

refrigeration

Air conditioning and refridgeration are two very different things. Air conditioning porvides comfort. Refridgeration provides safe to eat food which is actually necessary for human survival.

it defnetly is, without it ,it will be a global chaos!

Harnessing Fire should be WAY higher here. probably top 5.

Fire, like air or water, is nothing new – but the ability to control it is. Well, quite new. Evidence suggests early man used fire more than a million years ago, but the earliest signs that we had learned to command it date from nearly 800,000 years ago. Archaeologists at a dig in Israel in 2004 discovered clusters of burnt flint tools, evidence of hearths or campfires. The ability to start fire in a flash only came with the invention of the match in 1827 (see Match).

Fire was a discovery, not an invention. Sorry:(

i like tv

Television should be a lot higher up on this list. Without TV, you would not have the Computer #4, Internet #5, Video Games #17. Computers would still be printing on paper cards if it weren't for TV. GUI was invented to be used for TV and without GUI you wouldn't have the Internet or Video Games.

Sure can!

nailed it right there

Why do we need football in 38, why not tennis or basketball. Anyway sport is not that important, i thought it would be lower than that.

men who play or watch football do not make war! Therefore football is the best invention since Eve

football is amazing!!!!

no one shall touch my footballs either

Well, duh! More importantly, a compass was an ESSENTIAL tool for explorers way back when. If it wasn't invented by now, people wouldn't have discovered North America and the other half of the world, or the Earth's largest ocean. This should be in the top ten at least!

If we didn't have a compass, we wouldn't know which way is north, south, west and east.

If we didn't have vaccinations, we could have died from the diseases we had before.

Why is this not number 1? If we did not have glass then just about every experiment to invent most of the items on this list would not be possible.

REALLY!!!!!!!

I HATE PEANUT BUTTER! Peanut Butter was not one of the world's greatest inventions.Peanut Butter may be on the list of the best foods in the world (to some people) but not me.

yes

so true

thats true

Like any unenhanced lifeform, the areas we could travel were severely limited by our feet. Rocky terrain, hot sand, and other harmful surfaces would be impossible to cross without shoes because we would die from infection or become lamed.

What do you think people did before shoes came around? Ran barefoot.

zero is the best invention because it makes thousands and millions so zero means a lot

doesnt the number zero come under the catagory numbers ?

guess u didnt do math

i don't get it

Ben Franklin

Are you crazy? Without math you couldn't create most other things, like hacking. Anonymous.

Without this, the entire human race could have become extinct. This was the basis for early civilizations in desert areas to get food. Really, this should be up there before farming. It led to advanced farming!!!!!!!!

I do not have one and I am alive. A waste of time to me.

Money was invented by a guy who kept people's gold safe from robbers in return for a peice of paper that said that the guy owed the other guy his gold back upon request, creating the first bank, and the first paper money

money is horrible

who made money why he made money what was the reason to make, money is the worst invention i have ever seen ........................

y cant it be free???? it is just a sign of destruction 2 my knowledge it is just mayhem what people would do for it it is crazy...... alex m

Money is not an invention. It is rather a representation of the wealth that we have. And wealth is not an invention. Like electricity, it just happens naturally, when people start building their property values.

A world without Poverty perhaps? ^^ >.>

bartering -.- thats where we'd be

this should be closer to the top

bah

egyptians used rocks!!

duh...

haha yeah.....farr

That's why you use the pill.

better than havin a kid to look after

I DO but it DOESN'T FEEL THE SAME :( :( :(

who else agree's with me saying THIS IS THE BEST INVENTION EVER !!!! sex without babies xD

spelt it wrong - peanut butter

Best thing in the morning

yea I hate the one-shot-clean-load one as much as you do. It is more comfortable to shoot people continuesly.

AWESOME

yes

They are the best invention ever! I use my homemade stone axe everyday to chop firewood for my stove!!!

i think that reactors will have a new member that will be soon come to the world : ARC REACTOR

Maybe by looking up?!

should be No. 1

we'd be hovereing around in our zero gravity drives unfortunately these technologies will never progress because of the billions of dollars super powers are harvesting at our own expense and the expense of the human race as a whole in the future.

thats not true, philosophy only makes our lifes harder and more complicated

Funny how a device that is found in nearly every modern device is only 52nd on the list. Computers wouldn't exist without the IC.

yes

pockets rock

maybe not of all time, but definitely the greatest of the 20th century

Yes you can, but people won't hear. LOL

True

you cant sing with out one?

IPods rule!!! Its the all new and improved technology!!! xD

i love my ipoid

Complete garbage people, WAKE UP!!

truly is

it is awesome!!!!!!!!!

i agree

I personally put on clothes every one needs to get an EDUCATION EDUCATION EDUCATION

if not with this, we'd all be naked.P.S.(And very cold)

First, you spelled "none" wrong Second, barter system And finally, money is not an invention. You are all thinking of CURRENCY. Without money and currency, we would only have a barter system and things would simply move much slower.

it would be free

who invented viagra

no better than a 4 wheeler and better than a car

Then why aren't cars listed above it?

I know! It's amazing, right!

Your so right O_o