Name your Top 5 inventions of all time

[JamesW]

What about the most underrated inventions?

Things that were important, but most people don't really think about them in their top list of inventions.

The saddle with stirrups allowed people to ride horses for long periods while carrying supplies and the stability allowed them to fight from horseback.

 

[tucsontico]

My top 5 come from Daniel Boorstin's book "The Creators":
1) Time
2) Monotheistic Religion
3) Masonry
4) Photography
5) Heavier than Air Flight

 

[JamesW]

The remote control for TV.

Cash register.

Hats.

Horse shoes.

Batteries.

The light switch.

The light switch was invented 10 years after the light bulb.

People just had to leave the light on all the time, which was really inconvenient when you wanted to go to sleep.

 

[Newdude]

The light switch was invented 10 years after the light bulb.

10 years after *that* they invented the clapper. OG Alexa baby !!!! Matter of fact it was easier to clap.

 

[JamesW]

Wood, concrete, bricks, the Sun, gravity, dental floss, toothbrush, toothpaste, phasers, warp drive, transporters like in star trek, doors, safety razor, wood, compass, accurate clocks, my pillow, envelope, box, hair, scissors, thigh master, lasers, chicken, needles, elevators, boats, legs.

 

[cparktd]

Penicillin
The Pill
Sweet Tea
Bacon
Woven cloth

 

[JamesW]

10 years after *that* they invented the clapper. OG Alexa baby !!!! Matter of fact it was easier to clap.

I told my doctor that I had the Clapper and he gave me a prescription for penicillin.

 

[Selenap]

I told my doctor that I had the Clapper and he gave me a prescription for penicillin.

Well that beats the old hammer and whiskey method. Get it? Beats?I’m a riot when it comes to dad jokes.

 

[JamesW]

Aphthong, money, dinosaurs, zarf, muntins, grawlix, pizza saver, aglets, agraffe, ferrule, punt.

 

[JamesW]

Hot tub time machine, gender reveal balloons, credit cards, rocks, lightning, plastic, valve, slip-n-slide, paint, helicopter, large Hadron collider, LIGO, James Webb telescope, DNA, Crayons, donut holes, tires, rope, leaves, stars, black holes.

 

[JamesW]

Bulletproof shower curtains, doorknobs, bulletproof socks, pvc pipe, stairs, sharks, wires, food.

 

[Newdude]

sharks

……..Sharks with friggin lasers…..

 

[YippeeSkippy]

Has anyone mentioned "Birth Control" yet??? I swear that was a brilliant invention. That includes the "natural" types for the Catholics and Earth Mothers.

Maddie

 

[Newdude]

Has anyone mentioned "Birth Control" yet??? I

I believe so. Or I’m a perv. To me there is ‘a’ pill and ‘the’ pill. Ifyaknowhatimean.

The Pill

 

[JamesW]

I think that we need a moment of silence to recognize and remember one of the greatest and most prolific inventors of all time.

A man with no equal.

An unparalleled and unparallelable genius at creating some of the most important and iconic inventions of all time.

Ronald Martin Popeil.

Born: May 3, 1935.

Died: July 28, 2021 (aged 86).

 

[JamesW]

Color was a great invention.

Before color was invented, everything was in black and white.

Garbage was a great invention.

Before garbage was invented, no one could throw anything away.

Everyone lived like people on the show “Hoarders”.

It was horrible.

Tractors, maps, pet rock, pogo stick, silly putty, diamonds.

 

[JamesW]

One of the worst inventions of all time are those juice boxes for kids that hold about 3 ounces of grape flavored sugar water and they have about a pound of non-biodegradable packaging.

In 10,000 years when alien archeologists dig up the ruins, they will find nothing but skeletons and juice boxes and conclude that humans went extinct primarily due to these wasteful juice boxes.

 

[Newdude]

and conclude that humans went extinct primarily due to these wasteful juice boxes

I wonder if they find that oxygen is toxic and it just takes 80 or so years of exposure.

 

[RonsPlc]

I'm surprised that nobody has mentioned the holy grail of all inventions, and one of the most elusive ... the 10mm deep-well socket!

 

[JamesW]

Ball bearings, stainless steel, paper, dogs, radio, up and down, right and left, heat, widgets, fireplaces, smoke alarms, brakes.