What do you think are the best inventions of all time in recorded human history? (HDTV, camera)

[Thepastpresentandfuture]

Originally Posted by Lamplight

Concerning the part in bold, I'm a bit surprised you feel this way. Many of the inventions/discoveries mentioned in this thread have basically shaped modern society. Heck, if not for agriculture, we'd still be wandering in small groups spending every waking hour trying to get enough food to live, assuming we hadn't gone extinct thousands of years ago. Man wouldn't have had time to even invent much besides better spears for killing animals. Practically every invention we use daily owes its existence to agriculture.

No. I was not mentioning your example about agriculture or Stumbler's post in particular. I thought those were great posts.

When I said that, I was referring to the vast majority of the other posts where other people did not seem to take this thread seriously based on how they responded.

[Thepastpresentandfuture]

Originally Posted by MikeJaquish

Ummmm... "Yelp.com" is on the original list, and we were supposed to take the post "seriously?"
Who knew?

I really don't think that Yelp is the greatest thing since sliced bread.

Are you serious?

I was the one that created this thread and mentioned a lot of great examples for inventions.

Yet, you decide to focus on the only one exception where you didn't seem to agree with me and then say my thread and original post wasn't serious enough? It still seems like you would agree with 10 or 11 out of 12 inventions I mentioned.

Welll, I think yelp.com is a great invention since it where people write reviews about places like restaurants, cafes, museums, supermarkets, and many other places like that.

Also, I think sliced bread is not that great of an invention. Sliced bread is ok, thats it.

[MikeJaquish]

Sheeeeesh.

Gutenberg's Printing Press

The Slide Rule

The wheel

The telescope

Physics, calculus, trigonometry, plane geometry, algebra, math, arithmetic, cypherin'

Sanitation and antiseptic discovery

Harnessing of electricity for personal use and empowerment

The Computer

Language and punctuation

Robotic Surgery is here now and will be huge in the future.

The internal combustion engine

Levers and fulcrums, pulleys, gears,and other means of moving the universe through mechanical advantage

Harnessing of X-Rays

Regarding:
"...
-Ipod
-Google.com
-City-data.com (great as it is)
-Facebook.com
-Yelp.com
-Listography.com(Yes you can include certain websites and things like that)"
Not in the same league.
And it is extremely difficult to take Yelp seriously at all within the context of the question.
Extremely.
Impossible, even.

[Babyturtle]

Religion. Look how easy it is for a few to influence and control the actions/ideas/beliefs of so many others with religion.

[Magnolia Bloom]

Originally Posted by Thepastpresentandfuture

I think these are some of the best all time inventions:

-Computers
-Airplanes
-Cars/Automobiles
-Electricity
-Cell phones and phones in general
-Ipod
-Internet(technically separate invention from Computers)
-Google.com
-City-data.com
-Facebook.com
-Yelp.com
-Listography.com(Yes you can include certain websites and things like that)

Suck up!

I my realm, I'd have to add- the ice maker, ATM and garage door opener!

[poletop1]

The straight line; civilization depends on it. Pretty much anything from the Neolithic Revolution.

[Thepastpresentandfuture]

Yes. You still agreed with 6 out of 12 of the inventions I mentioned, so you still agreed with many of them.

You agreed with these inventions that I mentioned:

-Computers
-Airplanes
-Cars/Automobiles
-Electricity
-Cell phones and phones in general
-Internet(technically separate invention from Computers)

Wow. And you even copied some things I said and mentioned the computer, and electricity also which is what I mentioned first.

And plus, I created this thread. Isn't this an awesome thread subject?

So yeah, please dont come into a thread and say rude and sarcastic things to someone that created the thread such as what you did in your first post.

Originally Posted by MikeJaquish

Sheeeeesh.

Gutenberg's Printing Press

The Slide Rule

The wheel

The telescope

Physics, calculus, trigonometry, plane geometry, algebra, math, arithmetic, cypherin'

Sanitation and antiseptic discovery

Harnessing of electricity for personal use and empowerment

The Computer

Language and punctuation

Robotic Surgery is here now and will be huge in the future.

The internal combustion engine

Levers and fulcrums, pulleys, gears,and other means of moving the universe through mechanical advantage

Harnessing of X-Rays

Regarding:
"...
-Ipod
-Google.com
-City-data.com (great as it is)
-Facebook.com
-Yelp.com
-Listography.com(Yes you can include certain websites and things like that)"
Not in the same league.
And it is extremely difficult to take Yelp seriously at all within the context of the question.
Extremely.
Impossible, even.

[linicx]

Language
Water wells
Dynamite
Wooden sailing ships
Surname (followed the patronymic name)
Pent, ink and paper
Typewriter and printing press
Newspaper
Tools and hunting weapons
Catholocism - the first modern religion to appear after Christ died.
Barter and trade system
Wheel
Battery
Piublic schools
Electricity and the light bulb
Ice Box
Stove
Bath Tub and indoor running water
The Federal Patent Act (1790)
Witney's Cotton Gin (patent 1794)
stagecoach and train
Pony Express
tractor
radio
Silent movies
Little Boy and Fat Man
Dams and rural electricity
Key punch, Mainframes and the Internet Backbone
Beds
Plates, eating and cooking utensils.
Sanitation/health standard
heart and lung transplant
Onygen concetrators and ventilators.
Cooking oils, and Margarine - introduced to the public during WWII because of the butter shortage. It was a white block that incuded a package of yellow die to mix in it.
Blended spices
Water purification
Waste treatment plants
Water closet
The Girdle
Trycicle, Bycicle and motorcycle
Stilts (guys that plaster walls still wear them today
Vaccum cleanerl
Sheets and pillow cases - have been found in Egyptian archaelogical digs

[Thepastpresentandfuture]

Originally Posted by linicx

Language
Water wells
Dynamite
Wooden sailing ships
Surname (followed the patronymic name)
Pent, ink and paper
Typewriter and printing press
Newspaper
Tools and hunting weapons
Catholocism - the first modern religion to appear after Christ died.
Barter and trade system
Wheel
Battery
Public schools
Electricity and the light bulb
Ice Box
Stove
Bath Tub and indoor running water
The Federal Patent Act (1790)
Witney's Cotton Gin (patent 1794)
stagecoach and train
Pony Express
tractor
radio
Silent movies
Little Boy and Fat Man
Dams and rural electricity
Key punch, Mainframes and the Internet Backbone
Beds
Plates, eating and cooking utensils.
Sanitation/health standard
heart and lung transplant
Onygen concetrators and ventilators.
Cooking oils, and Margarine - introduced to the public during WWII because of the butter shortage. It was a white block that incuded a package of yellow die to mix in it.
Blended spices
Water purification
Waste treatment plants
Water closet
The Girdle
Trycicle, Bycicle and motorcycle
Stilts (guys that plaster walls still wear them today
Vaccum cleanerl
Sheets and pillow cases - have been found in Egyptian archaelogical digs

Great list!

The ones that I agreed with the most I put in bold.

How do you feel about the inventions I mentioned and for creating this thread?

[Thepastpresentandfuture]

I decided to create a new edited list for the best inventions of all time in recorded human history.

It includes some of the inventions I mentioned before (but I decided to take off some of the ones on my original for this new list). This new list also includes plenty of inventions many other people mentioned.

Mentioned by Thepastpresentandfuture:
1. Computers 2. Airplanes 3. Cars/Automobiles 4. Electricity 5. Cell Phones and Phones in general 6. Internet (technically a separate invention from Computer).

Mentioned by Annie53:
7.Television

Mentioned by Charles:
8. The cup 9. The wheel

Mentioned by loathartheterrible:
10. Air conditioning 11. Heating

Mentioned by Lamplight:
12. Agriculture 13. Clothing 14. Shoes

Mentioned by Stumbler:
15. Money and currency system 16. Cities. 17. Law (Written codes for society). 18. Education system/schooling. 19. Transportation (such as buses, subways, trains, boats/ships, etc.) 20. Idea of a container itself such as boxes and bags to carry things around in

Mentioned by suzco:
21. Using controlling fire for cooking.

Mentioned by High_Plains_Retired:
22. Refrigeration

Mentioned by Babyturtle:
23. Spirituality and Religion.

Mentioned by linicx:
24. Languages 25. Pen, ink, and paper. 26. Printing press. 27. Indoor running water 28. Tools 29. Public schools. 30. Stove 31. Sanitation/health standard. 32. Tractor 33. Beds. 34. Plates, eating, and cooking utensils. 35. Blended spices 36. Water purification

Thank you everybody that contributed to the thread so far!