Top 10 Greatest Inventions Ever

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I would replace the toilet with Calculus as the most important invention ever. You can't have most of the things on your list let alone truly understand them without Calculus.

I think that no 1 is the invention of wheel instead of toilets cuz you could also do this work in woods behind the hiding of bushes as the man living in caves did

I totally aggree, I believe that the wheel is the greatest invention of all time.

but there is no bushes in cities ! :D

Well the Mayans never truly invented the wheel(they never used it for anything more than children's toys) and they were pretty technologically advanced considering their time period.

The wheel is a great invention, but it's the simplicity that discredits it. Someone sometime shortly after the Sumerians or who have you would quickly come up with it anyway. The wheel also needed the axel/axis to make it even more useful for say a chariot, wagon, or car. It's important but overshadowed due to its simplicity. That's why it was invented in the Stone Age. The other inventions were invented more recently as they were more complex, etc.

I think that this list is brilliant.

Yeah you're right!

I believe that electricity should be nearer to the top. Electricity does so much for us, and without it, our lives would be upsode down...
Some of the itms on the list WOULDN'T work without electricty, for example the television or computer.

then what do u have to say about those villages in INDIA which dont have electricity .... surely electricity has done a lot to us but ... we cannot beleive that how those people are living .. i beleive toilet is the best ever invention
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Good list. Though I think the phone should be more cherished

I theing toilet is not a great invention, eventhough without toilet could have found lots of option like portable buckets could have used.. but why didn't mention about Aircrafts, Ships? Without this how could have transport tons of things as well as human beings in few hours country to country

i think that electricity should be at the top because it is used for every single thing we do and i also think that the television is not that big of a deal because we have tornado sirens and stuff to remind us when there is a problem and our computers even keep us updated on all that stuff

i sont think that clocks are that important because everything seemed to go fine with time back when they didint have any clocks and the many culturs of the world had thing to tell time like sun dials and also greek calenders so they always knew what time it was and without mechanical clocks i would still be on time to things and everything.

But how would you be on time to something that didn't have a schedule? If there wasn't a set time to meet, how would you know when to got to the meeting place?

To me, wheel and generation of electricity are two of the most important inventions ever...without which we wouldn't have been living the life the way we are today...after that the order can be the automobile, airplane, computer, cell phone, internet and TV. Cellphones has been a great invention...see how everyone is in touch now!..it has changed the way of living..!

I think the most imp and best inventions are those which has been related to our lives for decades and impact everyone's lives most deeply...so my order of list would be electricity generation, currency, automobile, computer, cellphone, tv, clock, satellite, printing press and threading machine. Just imagine how so many human beings have been impacted by above inventions!

Uh...why aren't condomns aren't on the list?

Nicola Tesla had more to do with the Birth of Electricity as we know it, seeing as he was the pioneer for the AC Currents we now use. Edison was a company owner who took the credit for the work done by the engineers below him. However, history seems to delete those who truely could have made a diffrence to the planet. The only thing that wins over is Greed and Money. Tesla was discredited (Money was never important to him). I never learned about him at School (Why?). There is Seriously something wrong with our Species... I for one truely hope that we perish before we've got the chance to destroy the most unique thing we'll ever know. We've even got the audacity to call it 'our' Planet.

Ps. I think you'll find the greatest invention was the stone tool.

AGREE 101%:)
Why is Tesla so neglected?

fire?? it lead way to electricity which lead way to the tv and computer and telephone. it allowed cavemen to cook food, preventing diseases from raw meat. it kept ppl warm. and all u have to do is burn all that waste and no need for toilets (not really, that would never work). I think the importance of fire is forgotten bcuz it is such a natural thing.

fire wasnt an invention it was a discovery... whenever cavemen found something on fire they would keep it burning by placing leafs and branches. they didnt just know that hitting two flint stones would make fire

I don't think those are the greatest inventions, ya of coarse they improve life today but i think the greatest invention was flight.

The Plow is the most important Invention ever.

i think that electriciy is the best invention cause with out it would affect a lot of people cause it powers medical devises that save peoples lives

yeah electricity is the greatest invention ever and without which nothing is possible in the present day world

that is true

We take the toilet for granted..... but think about a 30 story building with 250 units - 2 bathrooms each with portable buckets as toilets. Imagine you taking the elevator with neighbors holding that same bucket, taking it down to the "recycle room".
NOT POSSIBLE TO IMAGINE.

Yes, the toilet was a top incention on my list. :)

I think the printing press is a very undervalued invention. It is what lead to the quick and efficient distribution of ideas, so it indirectly contributed to many other discoveries, inventions, and movements.

However, this article has a blatant error: in terms of Christianity, the printing press lead more to the REFORMATION - it is not "why so many people turned their backs on Christianity" (which is an extremely unclear generalization). With translated copies of the bible readily accessible, people like Luther realized the corruption of the Catholic church and sought to purify the church.

The printing press is the MOST important invention... period.

i tink dhat dhat is a great list. bt everyone is rite wen kuhz alot of things cud be put into a list. so many tings wen impact yhur life. like the refrigerator, idk like choke stuff. wat are some othr rhings that impacted us?

is this real?

Yeah, I agree like there really should be more on the list, It should be more like 50 things.

Number 6 on your 10 best inventions is wrong. Edison did not invent distributing electricity to homes and long distances, it was actually Nikola Tesla, which he invented alternative current which wee all use today, edison invented direct current, which did not work over long distance.

The greatest invention of all time is penicilan, then its the wheel, then telephone, then television, then internet, then laser, then flight, then automobile, then telescope, then viagra

Where's written language?

Contrary to popular belief, Thomas Alva Edison didn't "invent" the light bulb, but rather he improved upon a 50-year-old idea. In 1809, Humphry Davy, an English chemist, invented the first electric light. In 1878, Sir Joseph Wilson Swan, an English physicist, was the first person to invent a practical and longer-lasting electic lightbulb (13.5 hours) with a carbon fiber filament. In 1879, Thomas Alva Edison invented a carbon filament that burned for forty hours.

The wheel duh

i really believe that you are right. ze toilet is ze greatest invention ever!!!!!!!!!!!

Judging by the quality of comments here, the spell checker never made it onto anyone's top 10.

Im with doggysaywhat - written language at the top followed by the hole - no hole no wheel.

i thnk tat tis s a wonderful list about the inventions except d toilet.....the wheel n fire shud b given more preference than the toilet,,,,,,,,,,

I think the greatest invention ever was language

What about paper? Or the compass? Or Arabic numerals/base 10 system/zero?

These are all a little less complex in and of themselves but unlocked knowledge and the ability to share it to an amazing extent. Even if you consider the latter two as discoveries of sorts they still required humans to develop the apparatus and conventions to use them.

Your most glaring omission is money, however, not necessarily paper money, but the concept of representative exchange of an agreed upon object who's value is arbitrarily decided. This allows trade and is what fueled the discovery and creation of so much of the world today. It easily slots in to the top 4 items

Also would you all stop talking about the wheel? It's excluded from consideration in the introduction paragraph. Shut up about it. Also newton considered calculus a discovery. Given that he was it's discoverer I think this has to be considered valid and as such excludes calculus from consideration as well

The best invention ever is Google.

what about soap???? with out it the worlds population would not nearly be as big

what is going on???

What about the camera? I think its one of the best and it constantly amazes me.

i think money is the greatest invention because without money none of this would have been invented because people invent stuff for money right?

i like all this

What about the Bow and Arrow? I mean, it helped us to hunt better after all.

that is silly the internet should be on that list.

computer must be no. 1

glass

I need to say only one name.

NIKOLA TESLA

How could he not be mentioned? It was he who lit the world, and gave us most of todays conveniences. Just google him in and wonder why he isn't more known!!

How did the steam engine not make it on this list?

i think the electricity should be the greatest invetion ever. without it. we wouldnt have most of the stuff we have now.haha

thanks I needed it for my work

actually,
10.cloth
9.shoes
8.electricity
7.telephone
6.jeans
5.clock
4. engine
3. computer
2. toilet
1. the Wheel.

common sense!

ah hell no. how are jeans important. seriously. electricity should be 1st

One machine was left out and that was the Mac introduced in 1984. I went, I saw, I touched it. Before it there was only green or amber letters on a black screen. Now we had Desktop Publishing, creativity, and multimedia for everyone. My computing world changed forever the instant I laid hands on it. Apple always leads the way and in doing so, is the most copy-catted system around, but still the best.

Planes, & the internet?

antibiotics, they save lives, and probably saved many inventors lives too....

agree with the writer 100%

What about the wheel ?

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Certainly fire was not an invention, it was a discovery... and the wheel was very important till now. generation of electricity even needed it to be generating ! and it was need for so many machines as well as transportations and more and more...

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We learned to "harness" electricity, same as fire and the wheel (cylindrical objects really, such as logs, served the same purpose as the cylindrical object stated here in some cases: the wheel), and as such, electricity shouldn't be included either. If you would like to argue that it should, then I would argue that the ability to harness electricity would never have come into existence had it not been for fire or the wheel, as these two objects played the largest role in human development and progressive growth towards an eventual modernization of the current reality.

Last note... the toilet? Number one? No large cities without the modern toilet? Absurd and history proves it so with many cases, but lets just use Rome. Many innovative methods for dealing with water problems, as well as waste, were plenty obvious in ancient Rome's architectural concepts and realistic design. Even more astounding would be the actual consideration that the toilet was more important than antibiotics! Please, this is an obvious calculation error. Toilets are nice, antibiotics save lives. People were fine without the modern toilet (case in point again, Rome and their system), but as noted by even you, antibiotics save lives, and the importance of antibiotics is grossly understated in this errored analysis of top ten. Actually, whether this list is the opinion of one person or multiple, the whole thing is askew. Hopefully not too many people contributed to this folly list, it is quite the blunder.

I think that the turnip is the greatest invention of all time, because it's cute

I like the invention for computer because i like computer games Far Cry 2,Call Of Duty Black Ops,Ghost Recorn ,Age Of Impier 3

I like the inventions because are very intersting

Number 1, toilet? I disagree! It's gotta be the internet.

i think the wheel is greatest

:-the micro chip:- this microchip is the size of a fly

The toilet was so important because before the toilet we did our waste in chamber pots and just threw the waste into the streets which caused many diseases! Human waste carries over 50 diseases. If you used a outhouse sometimes the hole were dug too deep and your waste got into the well water but you couldn't tell because it was clear. Thats why its number #1

bed is the best ever invention !

cool so i was i language arts the other day and the teacher said we had to do an essay on the greatest invention of all time and ypour chart totally helped me!

6 - The Use of Electricity - Electricity was never really invented. It existed all along, but humans only invented the means of generating this force and distributing it to individual buildings. The invention was made by Edison, who siglehandedly turned electricity into a commercial application and his Pearl Street station was the world's first electric power station. Now, anyone throughout most of the world can tap into the grid to power everything from light bulbs to computers. Actually, the human beings could be considered as feeding on electricity, besides organic products.
Once again Nikola Teslas contributions go unmentiond. Unlike Edison, Tesla was an original thinker.

all these things are super duper inventions indeed

What about the discovery and use of fire...

i definitally agree with the toilet... :)

Em saying edison did it all by himself? Lies Tesla was the one who came up with AC currant thus creating modern power. Edison was a child n comparison to the genis of tesla.

ummm ... no ... greatest ever technology invented has to be fire. It allowed mankind to eat meat safely & easily, create clean water, survive the cold, fend off wild animals, see in the dark, clear land, turn trees into boats, etc.

Second greatest technology: soap. Just salt and animal fat created a substance that invented cleanliness and so increased life expectancy and controlled disease.

I am just a student of CA so i slitly having knowledge about science it just bcoz of my interest in science so thank you very much for giving me some facts for that.

I am just a student of CA so i slitly having knowledge about science it just bcoz of my interest in science so thank you very much for giving me some facts for that.

GLASS? Imagine rooms without windows, cars without a roof, drinking a pint from a styrofoam cup. This changed peoples lives millennia ago but still impacts massively on life today. In fact three of the top 10 mentioned above would never exist without this invention.

Pretty cool :') lols pretty awesome people done great on this invention keep it up maybe you will get a big reward sometime this year soo yeah keep it up people boom Shakalaka people boiyakasha

What about the use of fire?

it isn't an invention

I think I'm like most people -- who agree with the inventions listed -- very precise - they are all life savers -- no doubt - but for me , I'd like to emphasize a particular invention which is still awful amazing - to many , if they really think about it -- It's the AIR CONDITIONER ! I , like most , probably wouldn't know how to handle the brutal heat which summer beats you down with . It's still baffles me , as to how an air conditioner can turn hot air into cool crisp flowing wind -- that's real live true to the T - Technology ! Three Cheers for Michael Faraday and Willis Haviland Carrier !! The Refrigerator also comes in awful handy - Can you imagine not having a refrigerator - No Cold Beer !? Good God !!

what about the wheel?

I think the inventions that are the best are also the wildest. can you imagine a guy inventing electricity ? i mean its one thing to think of this invention ok. but to go out and make it happen. just like the phone or the plane. Till this day flying to me on jets is still crazy imo. but its people like those inventors who made it all possible. we owe everything to them. maybe these things do finally get invented oneday. but when ? maybe not for a very long long time if it wasnt for them.

I believe that the wheel is no. 1 as the most important for transportation of everything including mankind.

No .2 should be the silicon chip,as it is necessary for operation of computers, & much of the mechanization on the automobile as well as many other things

I disagree on the order of the inventions.
1.Toilet
2.Antibiotics
3.Electricity
4.Automobile
5.Mechanical Clock
6.Computer
7.Telephone
8.Telescope
9.Printing Press
10.Televison
Maybe the telescope should be higher than I put it but oh well

Although I wouldn't put the toilet at number one per se, I definitely agree with you that it should be high on this list. Most people forget about it because of how easy their life has become with it and how often they use it. Without the toilet, you would have to go outside often and be screwed when number #2 came along. Heavily populated areas would be screwed and be centers for death. Everyone here would sacrifice the Computer, the Internet (a separate invention), phones, clocks, books, and television if you had to choose between that and the toilet. Some people can live without toilets in rural areas, but not having it would make cities close to uninhabitable. Glad you decided to value the toilet.

Interesting but what about the invention of the wheel, the bow and arrow and the invention of the zero. Without the invention of the zero we wouldn't have bridges, sky scrapers etc.

Yes that´s right where´s the zero it is quite important for human kind, also the rest of the numbers, they are so important ._.

Without the Zero, we would have no higher level math.

I think that such a list cannot be complete without the development of writing and the development of the internet. These two enabled the sharing of ideas that propelled pretty much all other inventions.

You forget ideas can also be called inventions, what about mathematics or language. Language should be number one without it we could share ideas but with it humans have been able to work as one.

Got to say for me the best invention ever is... the bag! Imagine not being abloe to carry things around, humans would not be the smae without the humble bag. Must have taken some challenge to actually come up with the design the first time around, think about it! How do you fold a plane piece of cloth to make it a bag? As complex a mental challenge as creating a computer...

Very nice list and interesting points. The spelling and grammar errors sadly took it down a notch though.