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Position:Home>History> What is the single greatest man-made invention ever?Question: What is the single greatest man-made invention ever!? Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: MusicWww@QuestionHome@Com The Printing Press!. Electricity is a convenience!. Knowledge is the only power that matters and the printing press spread it and preserved it!. Edit: and the wheel was not the first machine, it was the 4th!. The lever, inclined plane, and pulley were before the wheel!. Before you say that a pulley needs a wheel, a rope over a tree branch is a simple pulley!.Www@QuestionHome@Com The Guitar!. It's the only thing I can think of and I like guitars a lot so I would have to say guitar!. The wheel is bad because it lead to cars which ruin the environment and cause people to pay $200 a week in gas!. They are great because they get people to places faster but I think we should have sticked to horses or we should find a better thing to fuel our cars with!. Take note of zo6_lover's comment on electricity not being man made!.Www@QuestionHome@Com silcone chip!.!.!.Most of the serious answers such as the wheel/electricity etc are all viable and all great inventions in their own right BUT since the advent of the microchip-silicone chip our progress in all fields imaginable have leaped forward in leaps and bounds at astounding rates!. Theinvention of the whele has its' place in history but the time line of progress and offshoot inventions because of it moved at a glacial pace whereas with the silicone chip we jumped form the neanderthal to the space man overnightWww@QuestionHome@Com there have been too many to name just one!. But the microchip has a large impact on society today!. We are able to communicate with people across the globe thanks to that little thing!. It is in PDA's, iPhones, Video game counsels, laptops, desktops, cameras, and many others!.Www@QuestionHome@Com the railroad it started off the industrial revolution which led to progressivism which led to today!. we wouldnt be here without it however, the lightbulb is possibly just as great becuase it allwoed people to havde longer working hours and make greater progressWww@QuestionHome@Com I'm torn between the wheel and the printing press!. I guess I have to say the wheel because it was the first machine!. All our technology developed from it!. Man saw he could make things work better and look where it's led!.Www@QuestionHome@Com the toilet!. Imagine what would happen without a toilet in your house!. you would be going outside to poop and piss on your neighbors backyard at 3 in the morning and then he would have to shoot you!.Www@QuestionHome@Com The wheel, which led to the second greatest invention ever, The automobile And man did not invent electricity!. Man simply discovered itWww@QuestionHome@Com The wheel crated by some ancient genius whose identity has been lost in time!. That invention has enabled us to reach the technological heights that we enjoy today!.Www@QuestionHome@Com something as simple as a toothbrush or a hairbrush is probably the greatest invention!!Www@QuestionHome@Com Penicillin!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.antibiotics in general!. How many millions of lives have been saved by it/them!?Www@QuestionHome@Com Nuclear power!. We have the power to destroy countless worlds!. AWESOME !!!!!!!!!Www@QuestionHome@Com In electricity field >> electric lamp In medical field >> metformin I believe :)Www@QuestionHome@Com Wagon wheel shaped noodles!. jk!. lol TV is!Www@QuestionHome@Com The printed word!. Try to imagine the modern world without it and you will fail!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Uh, I would have to say the condem, or the self propelled cotton picker! Www@QuestionHome@Com how about a lap band for weight loss I have loss 100 pounds in 8 months since the surgery!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Hitachi Magic Wand!.!.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com I thought of electricity first too!.Www@QuestionHome@Com obviously this is subjective, but i'd have to say the printing pressWww@QuestionHome@Com I believe the Internet was!.Www@QuestionHome@Com ink, pen,paper,george foreman grill and beerWww@QuestionHome@Com The internet! hahaWww@QuestionHome@Com It's been argued the wheel was!.Www@QuestionHome@Com The Sony PSP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Www@QuestionHome@Com Chocolate x http://answers!.yahoo!.com/question/index;!.!.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com The electric guitar!. Btw Richard K, sounds like your talking from experience!?Www@QuestionHome@Com Medicine The worst: atomic bomb, hitler and ps3Www@QuestionHome@Com Spoken/written language!.Www@QuestionHome@Com I would have to say earth!.Www@QuestionHome@Com |