Name your Top 5 inventions of all time

[Rancho Cost-a-Lotta]

When will someone invent Salt-Chlor tabs (chlorine bound by salt).

Or Boralts (chlorine bound with boric acid).

There's gotta be a better binder than CYA or calcium.

 

[CA92807]

Printing press
Anesthetics
Antiseptics
Antibiotics
Plumbing - Clean water and waste removal

 

[wireform]

When will someone invent Salt-Chlor tabs (chlorine bound by salt).

Or Boralts (chlorine bound with boric acid).

There's gotta be a better binder than CYA or calcium.

Whomever invents that will get taken down by the pool stores

 

[ajw22]

I am surprised that folks do not rate highly medical inventions that save lives and contribute to health over comfort inventions.

• Vaccines
• Medical Imaging
• Antibiotics
• Robotic surgery
• Joint replacements

 

[JamesW]

Top 5 worst inventions of all time

Facebook.

Spam phone calls and email.

Inflatable dartboard.

Teflon coated brake pads.

Facebook.

 

[Newdude]

Top 5 worst inventions of all time

No shark jumping ?

 

[JamesW]

No shark jumping ?

 

[Wolfepack88]

I will argue that electricity, like fire, was not an invention and has always been elemental in nature. Electricity, fire, all the chemical elements in the periodic table, atoms, electrons, etc are not inventions.

Discoveries are gaining an understanding of the natural elements of our universe.

Inventions are how we apply human ingenuity to using those elements.

Fair point on that.

 

[Pv2]

baling wire
tie - silicon sealer and jb weld
duct/duck/gorilla tape
internet

 

[JamesW]

Quantum computing has not been developed into a fully functional computer for general use yet, but when it is, it will have a significantly larger effect than almost anyone knows.

 

[Katodude]

1) Wine
2) Bourbon
3) Scotch
4) Beer
5) Vodka

 

[Newdude]

2) Bourbon
3) Scotch
4) Beer

I see what you did there.

And yes. One ain't enough, you'd better bring 3.

 

[jimim]

TFP
TFP
TFP
TFP
TFP

Someone is kissing up. Lol. Kidding.

 

[Selenap]

Me
Sanitation
Music
Wet/dry floor mopping machines
Flea control

 

[Kjp300]

1) Wine
2) Bourbon
3) Scotch
4) Beer
5) Vodka

1) Wine
2) Bourbon
3) Scotch
4) Beer
5) Vodka

Yep. I agree with this one. . Mine is just a little different

Bourbon
Rye
Wine
Scotch
Beer

 

[Wolfepack88]

Yep. I agree with this one. . Mine is just a little different

Bourbon
Rye
Wine
Scotch
Beer

What's your bourbon?

 

[ParB]

My best inventions of all time?

These are a few of the ones i cooked up. Some of them even got used in real products
1 - Storage cluster, United States Patent Application 20150355969
2 - Secure data replication in a storage grid, United States Patent Application 20160004877
3 - System and method for point-in-time recovery of application resource sets, United States Patent 7640454
4 - System and method of controlling data center resources for management of greenhouse gas emission, United States Patent 7742830
5 - Transparent Array Migration, United States Patent Application 20150355862

I wish i invented something really cool like the wheel, wine or bread. alas, only geeky stuff came from me.

 

[Kjp300]

What's your bourbon?

Blantons of course when I can find it. Weller next if I can find that. But my everyday that I can typically find is Four Roses Single Barrell or Buffalo Trace. Ryes would be Whistle Pig for a treat but everyday Sagamore Spirits or Michters

 

[KJB1]

1.Plumbing / drinking water
2. Coffee
3. Farming
4. Truck
5. Motorcycle

 

[JamesW]

I wish i invented something really cool like the wheel, wine or bread. alas, only geeky stuff came from me.

I know the person who invented patent leather.

Ironically, they never applied for a patent.