What is the greatest invention ever?

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O.K. history buffs, what is your choice for the greatest invention ever by an unknown person or group?

Justify your choice.

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The Printing Press, for helping to spread the faith. Then maybe the internet.
 
The washing machine. Not having to haul clothes down to a river and them beat them on rocks gives us free time to read. 🙂
 
I’d have to go with one of the simple machines. Hard to invent anything else that didn’t use them.

It’s hard to beat the wheel, but I wouldn’t be surprised if the wedge, in the form of blades and hand axes, didn’t come first.

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I think it depends on your definition of “greatest invention”

Some inventions really helped to leap mankind forward. Fire, wheel, cloth, written language, mathmatics, steel, printing press, airplane, radar, rocket engines, microwave, x-ray imager, computer, MRI, internet, cell phones, etc.
 
Baloo said:
The Printing Press, for helping to spread the faith. Then maybe the internet.
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Yeah, the Protestant faith. We were all fine, until that came into existence. Not to mention a great deal of other anti-catholic ideas.

My favorite invention is the automobile. I really like to drive. :cool:
 
The Thermos.

It keeps hot things hot. 👍

It keeps cold things cold. 👍

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How does it know? 🤷
 
Writing! Look at the last sentence of the Gospel according to John:

“Now Jesus did many other signs in the presence of the disciples, which are not written in this book; but these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in his name.” (John 20:31)

(emphasis mine)
 
anixx said:
Yeah, the Protestant faith. We were all fine, until that came into existence. Not to mention a great deal of other anti-catholic ideas.

My favorite invention is the automobile. I really like to drive. :cool:
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Assuming you consider feudalism, oppressed illiterate serfs, a faith that was as much defined by superstition as knowledge, and the periodic indulgence sale as “fine.”
 
Tarpeian_Rock said:
Assuming you consider feudalism, oppressed illiterate serfs, a faith that was as much defined by superstition as knowledge, and the periodic indulgence sale as “fine.”
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Yeah, knowledge is abundant in today’s society. Btw, I don’t think this is the thread for such discussions. May we take it in another thread?
 
I am wondering what could have been more important, and more primitive, than the invention of language. Perhaps signs first, then the spoken word, and finally the alphabet. The discovery of how to make fire may have preceded language (which means it was not really an invention but a discovery), but the invention of language must have precipitated huge advances in communicating the different ways fire could be used. Likewise the early tools and weapons possibly were invented when one of the first persons ever said to someone else, “How can I build a shelter?” or “How can I better kill my neighbor?” Language likewise might have preceded settled laws and religion, even though the impulse to law and religion may have preceded language.

There would be no math, science, literature or technology without first the advent of language.

Without language as we know it, life today would be as Hobbes said it could be … “nasty, brutish, and short.”

But even with language, it could still be (and still is in some barely literate societies) … nasty, brutish, and short."
 
It is hard to decide on just one. I change my mind depending on what I am doing.

That being said, when my kids were little(about 25 years ago), I thought Velcro was the greatest invention. Switching to shoes with Velcro from ones with shoelaces was wonderful.
 
It is generally believed by both historians, anthropologists and scientists in general, that the greatest of all mankind’s inventions is the wheel. Without it, no other machines could exist.
Language cannot be considered an invention, but is a part of the evolutionary process of mankind. It ranks right after mankind’s discovery of G*d.
 
Well…everyone is always saying, “It’s the greatest thing since sliced bread!” So I’m going to go with sliced bread.
 
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