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.
1 posted on
05/19/2010 8:47:29 AM PDT by
C19fan
To: C19fan
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.
2 posted on
05/19/2010 8:51:37 AM PDT by
stylin_geek
(Greed and envy is used by our political class to exploit the rich and poor.)
To: C19fan
That’s what you get for including teenage girls in your sample of consumers.
3 posted on
05/19/2010 8:52:24 AM PDT by
astyanax
(Liberalism: Logic's retarded cousin.)
To: C19fan
I wonder how far down the list tooth paste is...
4 posted on
05/19/2010 8:53:06 AM PDT by
BigCinBigD
(Northern flags in South winds flutter...)
To: C19fan
yeah, I put antibiotics and anesthetics above the rest!
To: Swordmaker
7 posted on
05/19/2010 8:55:03 AM PDT by
BullDog108
(A Smith & Wesson beats four aces)
To: C19fan
the worldwide web fourth and computers fifth. Because the pre-computer world wide web was just so useful.,p>
8 posted on
05/19/2010 8:55:58 AM PDT by
KarlInOhio
(I am so immune to satire that I ate three Irish children after reading Swift's "A Modest Proposal")
To: C19fan
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.
9 posted on
05/19/2010 8:56:09 AM PDT by
TexGuy
(If it has the slimmest of chances of being considered sarcasm ... IT IS!)
To: C19fan
11 posted on
05/19/2010 8:56:52 AM PDT by
Eepsy
(www.pioacademy.org)
To: All
Antibiotics, running water, the wheel, electricity, pssssht.
Obviously none of you have an iphone. Don't you know there's an ap for all that stuff?
12 posted on
05/19/2010 8:57:52 AM PDT by
End Times Sentinel
(In Memory of my Dear Friend Henry Lee II)
To: C19fan
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.
15 posted on
05/19/2010 8:58:56 AM PDT by
Dallas59
(President Robert Gibbs 2009-2013)
To: C19fan
Why don’t I see “Dentistry” anywhere on the list?
16 posted on
05/19/2010 8:58:58 AM PDT by
gathersnomoss
(Please God, watch over our country.)
To: C19fan
We know it wouldn't be dental hygiene:
17 posted on
05/19/2010 9:00:45 AM PDT by
PugetSoundSoldier
(Indignation over the Sting of Truth is the defense of the indefensible)
To: C19fan
I thought the Thermos should be somewhere in the top ten :)
18 posted on
05/19/2010 9:04:41 AM PDT by
Red_Devil 232
(VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
To: C19fan
> 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?
20 posted on
05/19/2010 9:15:47 AM PDT by
BuffaloJack
(Comrade O has to go.)
To: C19fan
I would say the ‘printing press’. The ability to mass-produce books allowed the spread of knowledge.
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27 posted on
05/19/2010 11:42:55 AM PDT by
Swordmaker
(Remember, the proper pronunciation of IE isAAAAIIIIIEEEEEEE!)
To: C19fan
1. The Plow
It made civilization possible.
30 posted on
05/19/2010 11:48:29 AM PDT by
dfwgator
To: C19fan
The top of my list: writing and the alphabet.
31 posted on
05/19/2010 12:00:29 PM PDT by
stripes1776
("That if gold rust, what shall iron do?" --Chaucer)
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