Posted on 09/04/2022 9:39:15 AM PDT by gunsequalfreedom
While the Internet and the World Wide Web have certainly impacted the lives of many millions of people it is certainly not the greatest invention of the past millennium, in fact it might not even make the the top ten.
1 Printing Press 1450 Johannes Gutenberg allowed literacy to greatly expand
2 Electric Light 1879 Thomas Edison powered countless social changes
3 Automobile 1885 Karl Benz increased personal mobility and freedom
4 Telephone 1876 Alexander Graham Bell spread communication across wide areas
5 Radio and Television 1895 & 1926 Guglielmo Marconi & John Baird made the world smaller
6 Vaccination 1796 Edward Jenner protected people from disease
7 Computer 1939 John Atanasoff, et al. transformed business world; predecessor to the Internet
8 Airplane 1903 Orville and Wilbur Wright allowed people and products to quickly move
9 Gas powered tractor 1892 John Froelich started agricultural mechanization
10 Anesthesia 1844 Horace Wells provided a great leap forward for medicine
I wonder where sliced bread falls... it’s probably number 1.
Cheap Microprocessors and software to run on them are a great innovation.
The printing press and moveable type really are the game changers. The internet has had a similarly disruptive effect. Knowledge and information (different things) is not under control of a small clique.
You left off toilet paper.
Espresso machine.
Indoor plumbing.
1. Clean drinking water. Think about it.
If they count anesthesia on the list they should also count gasoline.
Gasoline trumps several items on the list.
Steam engine.
#1> Waterborne ships and the navigational skills to go to where you wanted go, and the ability to come home to your home port.
Surviving clay tablets and containers record the use of waterborne vessels as early as 4000 BCE.
Boats are still vital aids to movement, even those little changed in form during that 6,000-year history. The very fact that boats may be quite easily identified in illustrations of great antiquity shows how slow and continuous had been this evolution until just 150 years ago. And though that was the time when steam propulsion became predominant, it never was anywhere universal in local transport.
Because some solutions to the problem of providing water transport were eminently successful and efficient several millennia ago, there are a number of boats still in use whose origins are lost in prehistory.
The above enabled us to be here today and have the rest of the list.
When was tp invented?
We need more whiskey and bullets to bite on in operation rooms.
Screw the internet. It’s a natural outcome
Vaccinations against small pix, chicken pox, and polio are waaaay more important
They even had a massive contest to encourage inventors to improve the accuracy of timepieces.
Nikola Tesla invented the TV remote control in 1898.
I vote for blogs.
They’re great.
You betcha.
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