Readers Respond: What is Your Favorite Invention?

Responses: 73

By Mary Bellis, About.com Guide

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Our Saviour and Lord was not an invention. He is an all-powerful being that was and is and is to come. In other words, he just is. He always existed. There was no beginning and will be no end of Him.
—Guest Caroline

seriously? the greatest invention in history is language! without it, no person could communicate to another and therfore, could not create other inventions that require the help of communications
—Guest camo

Without money my life would be useless. Plus who wouldn't want the invention of money?!!
—Guest Alyssa

The U-Net is my favorite invention because it gives everyone in the world free satellite television and radio, and affordable phone and internet service, everywhere in the world-- and for less than any other service. It will soon replace most other communications.
—BrianMcCandliss

The dynamo is and i think will remain the best device for generate surficient electricity and man can't do without electricy. You will agree with me that energy provided by coal power stations, gas power stations, dams, patrol and diesel engines, wind mills etc. must be passed through a dynamo if it is to be converted into electrical energy. Electric cells will have to be charged by already existing electrical energy before they could generate electricity and can't even provide electricity for commercial and industrial use. You can talk about solar panels but how reliable and how surficient can that generate electricity? No not for heating huge furnaces to melt metals like steel in factories 24/7. We just have to give the best invention to the DYNAMO but if anyone can invent a device that will create or destroy energy, it will be the best invention of ages becaus that is seen as an impossibilty by most intelligent scientist of all ages so work on that if you want to be the best invento
—Guest Iniobong Friday

Let's go back to the basics. No doubt computers and the Internet are huge, as huge as book printing (though probably not writing itself), but LANGUAGE. Don't forget that's a human invention, one that basically raised us above primate level. Could we even think sophisticatedly without language?
—Guest gpph

telephone or light bulb.The telephone is made from Alexander Graham Bell.The light bulb is made from Thomas Edison
—Guest qwertyuiopasdfghjklzxcvbnm

The wheel made just about all of this possible, which is why the wheel is the greatest; but the microscope (and by extension the telescope) has lead to hundreds of discoveries that have saved lives and harmed them, uncovered many of the 'secrets' of life, such as how it begins with a single egg, how infection begins and how we can stop it. If microscopes had never been invented and the things they've shown proven, more than half of the information in your science textbooks would simply disappear. (Unless your studying Earth Science. In which case, I empathize with you.)
—Guest R

Toilet, without it, we would contaminate and pollute every corner of the earth which would lead to an untimely death.
—Guest Chris

Authomobiles.I would rather say that the invention of Autgomobiles is the most intriguing invention of the century.I said this cos Authomobiles have added the movement of both man and agricultural produce,including finished goods,without which will have a drastic effect on the worlds' economy.
—Guest Samuel Chibuisi

I think that the Best 10 inventions are 1st books, 2nd medicine, 3rd paper and quill(the 1st evolution of the common day pen), 4rdelectricity, 5th the light bulb, 6th the computer, 7th the telephone, 8th the wheel, 9th the automobile. I'm a 5th grader.
—Guest gyghh

never before had man had power like that. but after we discovered it we recieved the power to end all life as we know it.
—Guest peter

If the wheel had never been invented half the stuff on the list of top ten inventions would't have been discovered
—Guest George

Mary Bellis
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