What's The Greatest Invention in History?

[Irv]

I'd argue the microwave oven is right up there.  

[Augie]

I’m torn between the wheel and ice cream sandwiches. 

[Gregg]

[frostbitmic]

The Wheel

Aqueducts

Pizza

[dpberr]

My votes:

 

Internal combustion engine

Mechanical refrigeration (which leads to mechanical air conditioning)

Anesthesia

[Another Fan]

Two Bills Drive 

[boyst]

Batteries. 

[Doc]

Wheel.  

 

Radio and then television.

 

Computers.

[The Poojer]

sliced bread, everything else is compared to it

[Jauronimo]

the male to male converter

[PromoTheRobot]

The printing press.

[Gugny]

Asswipes for adults. 

[The Jokeman]

The flushable toilet. 

[Just Jack]

Knives/blades

 

[Tuco]

The wheel.

 

Then alternating current. Very underrated.

[Wacka]

Beef on Weck or Wings from the Anchor Bar.

[ExiledInIllinois]

The transistor.

 

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6 hours ago, Gugny said:

Asswipes for adults. 

😆

People aren't inventions, God doesn't make mistakes!

 

 

 

 

Edited April 16, 2024 by ExiledInIllinois

[BringBackFergy]

The interconnected webs. 
Thanks, Al Gore. 

[Miyagi-Do Karate]

TiVo.

[Steve O]

20 hours ago, Irv said:

I'd argue the microwave oven is right up there.  

Seriously Irv? The microwave oven? Let me tell you about the microwave oven. It was invented in 1947 as the radar range. Throughout the rest of the 40's and 50's barely anyone owned them. You know what else was extremely low at the time? The divorce rate. In the 60's and 70's microwave ownership began to pick up. What else did? Bingo, the divorce rate. Microwave ownership steadily rose through the 80's and 90's, then started to level off at the turn of the century. That's right, the divorce rate followed the same trend. If you look at separate graphs of both since 1947, they look eerily similar. Coincidence? I think not!