Posted on 05/19/2010 8:47:29 AM PDT by C19fan
A study of 4,000 consumers also placed the Apple smart phone - which has sold 42 million units since its launch in 2007 - ahead of the car, camera and flushing toilet.
The wheel was voted as the most important invention in history, with the aeroplane in second place, the lightbulb third, the worldwide web fourth and computers fifth.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
1. Wheel 2. Aeroplane 3. Light bulb 4. Internet 5. PCs 6. Telephone 7. Penicillin 8. iPhone 9. Flushing toilet 10. Combustion engine
I would of put items related to hygenie and medicine in the Top 10. In terms, of extending life expectancy and quality of life they had the most impact.
I ran across a remark by an elderly woman who, when asked what the most important invention she’d seen, responded “indoor running water.”
She was old enough to remember the invention of the airplanes, television perhaps even the telephone.
From the responses to the survey, it looks to me like a lot of people take all the trappings of civilization for granted. Evidently, they’ve no concept of how complex the machinery of modern society is.
That’s what you get for including teenage girls in your sample of consumers.
I wonder how far down the list tooth paste is...
yeah, I put antibiotics and anesthetics above the rest!
Exactly. I can live without the internet but hard to live doing number 1 and 2 in a chamber pot then throwing it out the window onto the street.
ping!
Because the pre-computer world wide web was just so useful.,p>
The morons are probably equating the iPhone with the digital cell phone / generic personal communication device probably in the same way I call a tissue, Klennex.
Does the world wide telegraph web count? hee , hee
If this counts as an invention, it should be number one:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germ_theory_of_disease
Obviously none of you have an iphone. Don't you know there's an ap for all that stuff?
There was a separate category for mobile phones.
Totally agree. There are some ‘basic’ things that are taken for granted (and would never appear in any survey) that if removed would INSTANTLY be missed and pined for. Without indoor running water, for instance, it means living near a water source ...and fetching the darn thing. Or else, boreholes and wells. There are all sorts of ‘simple’ things that revolutionized life as we know it today, and the IPhone is not even in the top thousand by my guesstimation.
Good gawd...Writing should be up there somewhere. Without it there wouldn’t be any of the top ten.... with the exception of the wheel.
Why don’t I see “Dentistry” anywhere on the list?
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> Top 10:
> 1. Wheel 2. Aeroplane 3. Light bulb 4. Internet 5. PCs 6. Telephone 7. Penicillin 8. iPhone 9. Flushing toilet 10. Combustion engine
> I would of put items related to hygenie and medicine in the Top 10. In terms, of extending life expectancy and quality of life they had the most impact.
Where are eyeglasses on this list, considering many of the above inventions were the work of inventors past the age of good eye sight?
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