What do you think was the best invention?

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27 Aug 2010, 11:06 pm

TESLA COIL!

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27 Aug 2010, 11:09 pm

the leaver then the wheel

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28 Aug 2010, 8:04 am

Language, of course.

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28 Aug 2010, 8:23 am

I wouldn't say it's the best, but one of the most helpful inventions in my life is the smart phone. Smart phones are like having a mini pocket sized computer everywhere you go. I love the GPS and the internet :mrgreen:

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28 Aug 2010, 10:05 am

The iPod Shuffle, because trying to go outside and run with a CD player is a typically unpleasant experience.

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29 Aug 2010, 4:57 pm

Ambivalence wrote:

Language, of course.

Came to second that.

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29 Aug 2010, 5:49 pm

The WrongPlanet website was a pretty good invention. My mood has improved, a lot since I've started posting regularly last September, after keeping a very low profile, since the September of 2008.

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29 Aug 2010, 8:47 pm

Wombat wrote:

I might have said fire or the wheel or agriculture but what do I know?

I do believe fire was not an invention.

Who knows? The electric motor?

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29 Aug 2010, 9:07 pm

Spazzergasm wrote:

Wombat wrote:

I might have said fire or the wheel or agriculture but what do I know?

I do believe fire was not an invention.

Who knows? The electric motor?

Not fire alone maybe, but using it to human benefit?

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29 Aug 2010, 9:18 pm

takemitsu's avatar. brilliant.

otherwise ..

airplanes
computers
the internet
the electric guitar
the feature length film

(i could probably add to this list indefintely, so i will stop there)

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29 Aug 2010, 9:49 pm

decoder wrote:

Spazzergasm wrote:

Wombat wrote:

I might have said fire or the wheel or agriculture but what do I know?

I do believe fire was not an invention.

Who knows? The electric motor?

Not fire alone maybe, but using it to human benefit?

Well yeah, then definitely important.

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29 Aug 2010, 9:52 pm

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I think that the best invention, was the netbook. I'm on mine right now, and I take it everywhere that I go. Another invention that I think was good, are incontinence products.

I see your netbook and raise you my iPad

I see your iPad and raise you my Nokia N900.

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29 Aug 2010, 10:36 pm

takemitsu wrote:

Cruise Control.

Zara wrote:

Air conditioning.

Funny, this thread has 2 things listed that I purposely removed from my car, one in perfect working order and the other probably missing a sensor!

Obviously the invention of ways to harness energy are the most important because without energy more complicated inventions cannot be used. However more advanced inventions are the ones worth noting. I nominate camshafts. The wonderful spinning shafts which tell your engine when to open and close it's valves. They have been around forever and any sane person wanting a simple engine will always want one. My runners up include aluminum heads, distributors and turbochargers.

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30 Aug 2010, 12:15 am

I have to agree that firearms have been one of the most influential inventions.

For relatively modern inventions, I'd have to go with these two: the diode and triode, invented in 1904 and 1906, respectively. They launched the field of electronics. All your cell phones, computers, and i-stuff can bow down to these primitive electronic devices that they descended from.