Top 20 Greatest Inventions of All Time

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Sure "fire" and the "wheel" are cool inventions and all, but I was just about to give up on this damn list of the Top 20 Greatest Inventions of All Time until I got to number 20 and 21. Nowadays, you can get by just fine without fire or a wheel but can you say the same about your computer or the internet? Also surprised "beer" didn't make the list. :D

20. PERSONAL COMPUTER - invented in the 1970s, personal computers greatly expanded human capabilities. While your smartphone is more powerful, one of the earliest PCs was introduced in 1974 by Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems (MITS) via a mail-order computer kit called the Altair.
 
1: iPhone
2: Mac Pro
3: Turtle Necks
4: iMac
5: Mice with no fucking buttons
6: Macbook
7: Removal of a headphone jack
8: iPad
9: Courage
10: iPod

That's all the inventions that have ever mattered. We can all go to bed now.
 
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I don't like how they had the printing press on that list. That technology is used for piracy and piracy is illegal. They shouldn't be promoting crime.
 
I remember an early computer story of someone saying "why would you bring a computer home! ? ! ? " if only he know how useful it is and how much porn you Could download.
 
Armenius said:
Agreed. While there were early pioneers, the electricity grid that runs the world today was invented by Tesla. Edison gets far too much credit.
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Irony of Irony. Tesla was really about motors or generators, btw. 'Electricity' was pretty much done by that time.

Edison was right, his system was safer. Telsa's was cheaper. Corporate greed won out. Via today's lens more people would side with Edison and his systems would have won.
 
jpm100 said:
Irony of Irony. Tesla was really about motors or generators, btw. 'Electricity' was pretty much done by that time.

Edison was right, his system was safer. Telsa's was cheaper. Corporate greed won out. Via today's lens more people would side with Edison and his systems would have won.
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I think you ate the wrong mushrooms.
 
jpm100 said:
Irony of Irony. Tesla was really about motors or generators, btw. 'Electricity' was pretty much done by that time.

Edison was right, his system was safer. Telsa's was cheaper. Corporate greed won out. Via today's lens more people would side with Edison and his systems would have won.
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Safer in what way? Would you really like to have India's situation in your city right now?
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Fire was not invented, nor was electricity. Discovered, yes.
Nothing about clothing, sewing, loom???
Nothing about the plow or anything else to do with food.
More food = longer life span = larger populations = more communications = more inventions = more free time = more education = more inventions etc...
 
Big one missing of the list is Refrigeration especially if you like cold, well anything. A/C, cold beer, not having to buy blocks of ice delivered to your door to keep food cold etc.
Second one is Microwave - There was a time you had to reheat everything on a stove and it barely took less time than cooking something new.
 
jpm100 said:
Irony of Irony. Tesla was really about motors or generators, btw. 'Electricity' was pretty much done by that time.

Edison was right, his system was safer. Telsa's was cheaper. Corporate greed won out. Via today's lens more people would side with Edison and his systems would have won.
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It was not really any more dangerous, Edison went out of his way to try and make the claim, however DC, over extended distances is not piratical at all. It was not "corporate greed", rather it was the system that was the most piratical won out. As the two main corporate companies pushing these systems were the Edison electric light company and Westinghouse, has it been simple corporate greed, they both would have settled on the AC system. With transformers, voltages were dropped down to what could be used by devices before it entered the homes wiring, the high voltage was in the transmission lines, so unless you were climbing poles, the chances of anything happening were slim. Edison also pushed for a Westinghouse AC setup to be used as the method for the first electric chair, again in another attempt to sway the public into thinking having AC installed to your home meant the death of your family. To be pushed long distances DC would also need to be very high current/voltages, which can be very deadly as it is current that will kill you. If we are talking under that threshold of current to kill you AC might be worse, as it has a higher chance of putting the heart into fibrillation.

Uvaman2 said:
Electricity = Nikola Tesla
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Tesla did not invent electricity, nor did he discover it. He did play a major role in commercial electricity however. He also developed alternating current, AC electric motors and polyphase distribution systems.
 
Yes, beer and tea should definitely be on that list as ways of making water safe to drink.
 
I think the issue is such things like this cannot be appropriately put into a "top 20 list" like they are some kind of songs where you get a metric to use. It is all opinion based, was the wheel a great invention? Yes, and so was the chisel that made the wheel. Computer is a great invention but then so was the vacuum tube and transistor etc etc.

I think to sum up the best inventions would be better done by using the game civilization and see what items to players research first.
 
Why isn't the TOLIET on this list?? It is something much of the world uses several zillions times a day!! We all should be thanking Thomas Crapper every time we flush!!

Picture of the combination of three of the greatest inventions..

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Sure, I know you meant it as a partial joke, but the truth is that beer really is one of the most important inventions of all time. Along with providing something to drink during long sea voyages and helping people survive during the dark ages, it was the study of beer going bad that led to Louis Pasteur to discover micro organisms, germs, vaccinations, and the medical explosion of the 20th century! Although I don't admittedly drink the stuff, and I'm willing to hold up a glass and say, "Thanks beer!"

So, #13 shouldn't be Vaccination, but BEER, as without it Pasteur would have never gone on to create the first vaccinations!
 
Twisted Kidney said:
1: iPhone
2: Mac Pro
3: Turtle Necks
4: iMac
5: Mice with no fucking buttons
6: Macbook
7: Removal of a headphone jack
8: iPad
9: Courage
10: iPod

That's all the inventions that have ever mattered. We can all go to bed now.
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Do you charge Apple and the estate of Steve jobs for all the space they take up in your dome? Or do you just let them stay rent free.

The Butt[H]urt reaches new levels daily on here daily.
 
Loop242 said:
Nothing about the plow or anything else to do with food.
More food = longer life span = larger populations = more communications = more inventions = more free time = more education = more inventions etc...
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Yep. It could be argued that the plow was by far the most important invention. Instead of toiling in the fields all day, it freed us to pursue other activities. Now, lets say for whatever reason that we lose access to electricity. In that scenario, what becomes the most important invention again? The plow, while everything else on that list (well besides maybe fire, which we didn't invent) becomes utterly useless.
 
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