What Do You Think Were The Top Ten Scientific Discoveries?

Mind of Niuhuru | May 5 2010 | Niuhuru

[Niuhuru]

What do my fellow FReepers think were the top ten scientific discoveries to date?

[Jemian]

The Wheel

An aquaduct of various sorts

Moveable type

[djf]

Good list.

But I would probably toss the sail or boat for electricity and the resulting digital age.

[School of Rational Thought]

Bacon

[exnavy]

I gotta go help the daughter at her house, this thread is hugh, and series. And doesn’t need my input.

[dfwgator]

The Plow.

Watch “Connections” and learn why.

[agere_contra]

Obvious reason the Spaniards made mince meat of the Aztec Empire in very short order.

Plus horses and metal weapons and allying with everyone who hated the Aztecs.

[FredJake]

OOPS I'll try that again


#1 invention of all time,

The Wheel.

Without the wheel mankind would never have gotten beyond the point of the Aztecs. Obvious reason the Spaniards made mince meat of the Aztec Empire in very short order.

[DCBryan1]

youre killing me LOL

Dont forget the "Racially Insensitive Insult Marker

[CodeToad]

1. Fermentation.
2. Antibiotics.
3. Flight.
4. Transistor.
5. Electricity.
6. Nuclear Energy.
7. Radio Waves.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Niuhuru, this should be a fun topic for all four lists.

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[ßuddaßudd]

Refrigeration

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Niuhuru.

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[Responsibility2nd]

Laz ain’t here yet. So I’ll post for him....

1. Hitting it.
2. Hitting it.
3. Hitting it.
4. Hitting it.
5. Hitting it.
6. Hitting it.
7. Hitting it.
8. Hitting it.
9. Hitting it.
10.Hitting it.

[DManA]

That’s not so much an invention as it is a tragic mistake.

Processed cheese.

[ZX12R]

Fire can be manufactured in various ways, and not just a product of opportunity. I saw “Quest For Fire”.

[agere_contra]

LOL, that was hysterical, thanks for posting.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Niuhuru.

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[Ditter]

#1 has to be electricity and #2 is air conditioning! Followed closely by computers and Free Republic! Thank you Jim Robinson!

[Fresh Wind]

The Edison Effect.

Led to the vacuum tube, radio, television, the transistor, the integrated circuit, electronic computers, Internet, cell phones, iPods, video games.

Hmmmm. Maybe it wasn’t so great after all.

[discostu]

The 2 stroke steam engine. And the electric motor.