What is the greatest invention ever? (1 Viewer)

[Masood Ali]

I'd say music.

 

[Eric Kahn]

Lasagna rates way above pizza in my book
and canned whipped cream is right up with cheese in a can

 

[Neil Joseph]

The vacuum tube (transistor's predecessor)

The computer (because every appliance/device will have one inside it).

Electricity

 

[Lou Sytsma]

Speech - everything else would impossible without it.

 

[Garrett Lundy]

Wasn't beer invented by the Egyptians something like three thousand years ago?

No, Ancient Simmerians (Not to be confused with the Cimmerians of the hyperborian age) brewed primitve beer roughly 10 to 15 thousand years ago. I say primitve because they didn't have carbonation or ICE-versions of beer.
The Egyptians did invent the first (currently historically known) monotheistic religion.
Assuming fire isn't an "invention", clearly the Knife would be most important. It led to the creation of other tools, which lead to future inventions including soap (Can't make soap without fire and a container of some sort....Hmm, need tools to make a container to boil soap-fats in).
Assuming you want the "most important" invention that isn't 50,000 (creationism...Ha!) years old.... Biological Warfare. Guns don't kill people, Influenza, polio, mumps, measels, anthrax, and tuberculoisis kill people. Just ask the 20,000,000 dead native americans who died before 1610, or the Neanderthal of northern Europe.
Yes, Germs (especially the animal-based ones) paved the way for conquest, travel, idea-spreading, stolen technology, farming (how do you think wheat got so common?), religious doctrine, civilization, and so forth.
Don't believe me? Read "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared Diamond. (My favorite book).

 

[Patrick McCart]

If this was an important invention poll, I'd say the wheel.

Since this is the greatest, I'll have to say the motion picture camera. As Lillian Gish said, no other invention has had such an impact on a civilization.

 

[Brad_V]

A/C electricity is high on the list. Thank you Nikola Tesla. And Thomas Edison, if you're listening, you're a weasel and you suck.

Other than that, is MacGuyver considered an invention?

 

[Max Leung]

As Lillian Gish said, no other invention has had such an impact on a civilization.

Guess Lillian never heard of the plow. Or indoor plumbing. Or the birth control pill. Or the smallpox vaccine. Oh hell, even the computer.

 

[Dennis Nicholls]

After watching Birth of a Nation, I would have thought Lillian Gish thought the greatest invention was the KKK.

 

[Pete Jennings]

Fishnet stockings!

 

[Joe Bernardi]

Liquid Prell.
More important that the heart-lung machine?
Yes. Drop the heart-lung machine in the sink and it breaks!


Thanks to the 2000 Year-Old Man.

 

[Bob McLaughlin]

Fake boobs.

Heh, heh, heh.

Seriously, I agree with the fellow who said THE TRANSISTOR. Without them, there could be no fake boobs.