what's the best invention ever?
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powderdream
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i would have to say fire
Being serious for a moment, the general consensus is that the Gutenberg press was the most important invention of all time. At least, every time someone publishes something on the greatest inventions of all time, it's at the top. I don't know how they managed to miss the wheel, though. That seems key, somehow.
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Current Reigning NS Moron: ''There is no way a nuclear missile would ever reach our shores... the 'star wars' program was developed in the 70's and it uses satellites to destroy nuclear cruise missiles.'' -Seanpistol, Member # 53038
I know a very imporant invention. The water wheel!
The water wheel progressed to do funtions such as pounding grain, then by using cogs, camshafts, hols and pegs, people where able to 'program' water wheels to do different task. The technology from the water wheel was intoduced into the weaving loom. By making tough paper cards with holes punched in them, you could store the information for a design that could be made flawlessley on an automatic loom. When immigrants begane to come to the US, officials on Ellis Island used punch cards to store information about people. They would punch holes to store info about age, race, sex ect. Then to use them in a census, they could put the cards in a machine that used electric contacts, if a bit a metal could go though the hole in the card then that person could be counted.
All this led up to the modern day computer!
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The water wheel progressed to do funtions such as pounding grain, then by using cogs, camshafts, hols and pegs, people where able to 'program' water wheels to do different task. The technology from the water wheel was intoduced into the weaving loom. By making tough paper cards with holes punched in them, you could store the information for a design that could be made flawlessley on an automatic loom. When immigrants begane to come to the US, officials on Ellis Island used punch cards to store information about people. They would punch holes to store info about age, race, sex ect. Then to use them in a census, they could put the cards in a machine that used electric contacts, if a bit a metal could go though the hole in the card then that person could be counted.
All this led up to the modern day computer!
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Anathema
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yeah speaking of that edition of TIME magazine... that pissed me off. alot. it explained how einstein was the man of the century, which is appropriate given all he's done for the world with his knowledge of physics and whatnot, but in my mind, and the minds of many other people, it should have been Ghandi. so that made me a bit mad... sorry, off topic a bit, but that's my story
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Bob_Loblaw
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It should have been Jim Morrison.
Derek
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im thinking that one of the greatest and best inventions of all time is clothing. that or a spear tip... they are the base of our civilization as we know it.
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skiierman
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Ok here is the end of this thread right now, the best invention ever is anything invented by George Foreman. Case closed, this thread is done.
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----2ond in Command of DANSA-----
To Huck. v. The act of throwing oneself off of a cornice, cliff, rock, or any other thing that results in an attempt to fly.
If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bullshit.
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