Readers Respond: What is Your Favorite Invention?

Responses: 50

By Mary Bellis, About.com Guide

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From the article: Top 10 Inventions

What gadget can you not live without? Or what invention do you think made the greatest impact on history? And Why?

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

Definitely Electricity is on the top other wise we were not on medical,space, agriculture..........every field is driving through it.
—Guest Shailesh

I think the best invention is agriculture. It has allowed humans to develop complex systems, whilst feeding our selfs. If we still had to hunt and gather with the seasons, we would not have time for anything else.
—Guest peter

the printing press made an explosion of information; By duplicating pages thousands of times faster then the hand written page it, allowed more information to be distributed to more people. world history proves this The world technology was stagnent for thousands of years beforethe printing press, and technology exploded after the printing press. The progress the world has achieved sence would be impossible if all information had to be transfered by hand written messages.
—Guest Zainillionaire

Because without electricity most of the inventions we use today wouldn't work. P.S I'm in 4th grade
—Guest ronack

Certainly the wheel was very important till now. generation of electricity needed even its principle to be generating ! and it was need for so many machines as well as transportations and more and more… But believe me you will find out the greatest invention ever in the European Patent Office, The Greatest Invention ever an Invention will save our Planet, and will dramatically change the life of all humanity by an alternative free green energy. Patent no. (EP1980745 for any question and details contact:(Ibrahim.h.Ibrahim@live.com)
—Guest Shoayb

God. Man created God and changed humanity for the worse. The root of all destruction is in the idea of a personal God.
—Guest David

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