Top 10 Scientific Inventions: X-Ray Places First

[Shadow703793]

[citation][nom]napalmdest54[/nom]Microprocessor? Your not thinking hard enough. The transistor should be number one on that list. Transistors are used in every piece of modern electronic device. Also to add to the list where is sonar, radar, the internet, the light bulb, the radio, etc. That list they provided sucks.[/citation]
Exactly what I was thinking! Even the damn X Ray machines now use them!

 

[Guest]

stupid english speakers & and american swines.
Sputnik should be up there, the mass english speaking world is so washed out by their own convienent facts they forgot what the rest of world contributed. that list tells you how intelligent brits and american are... Ford T Model???

 

[Guest]

The single most important invention ever is written langauge. Without it, all knowledge would be passed on through imperfect and error inducing oral tradition. The amassed knowledge of mankind is only possible with the written word.

 

[rockstone1]

#1 Electricity
#2 Microprocessor
#3 Printing Press
#4 Penicillin
#5 Calculus
#6 Boats
#7 Vaccination
#8 Telescope
#9 Transistor
#10 Air Travel

 

[buwish]

I think that the Model T should be higher on the list. The affordable automobile is what defined our lives the 20th century, much less our lives today.

 

[Guest]

trade??

 

[spectrewind]

#1 Wheel
#2 simple tools (a collective)
#3 written/spoken language (communication)
#4 printing press

My list would go something like this. Has nothing to do with electronics, or modern society. More like: These are some of the things that needed to preface some of the cool inventions we have now.

 

[cyber_jockey]

I dont even see condoms. Saved me alot

 

[Guest]

Language

 

[Guest]

The two people don't think about but have had a profound impact on society are the Refrigerator and toilet/septic system.

 

[erekp]

Gonna have to go with Agriculture, but more specifically, plumbing. Sure it took over a thousand years to get it RIGHT, but at this point, even most NATIONS simply couldn't exist without it. Getting water from place to place via aquaducts and then plumbing probably allowed for faster expansion across land than any development since.

 

[demonhorde665]

[citation][nom]SneakySnake[/nom]How is the DNA Double Helix an invention?? It's a discovery, but not really an invention[/citation]


actually the top 3 on the list are all discoveries

1. x-rays them selves were not invented , they were discovred, teh machine taht produce them are basicaly jsut specal "light" bulbs that give off that form of radiation , the machine it's self is no technical marvel by any standard

2. penicilin, again this is a discovery NOT a man made invention , penicilin is a fungus , all we did was figure out how to cultivate it intoa liquid or pill form , nothing new given we ahve done this with countless medicines , foods and drugs , over the last 200 eyars or so.


3. DN double helix ... an invention ??? get real , and peopel wonder why religious nutters , want to say scientist try to replace god with science ... f--- last i checked this was god's invention not ours so how the hell can we count it in this list



the rest of the list is perfectly fine ... but those top 3 are total BS. if a scientist discovers a microbe in dog feces tomorrow it wont make it an invention... god the people that did this list are f-ing stupid ... I propse a new invention , one that wipes out all the stupid peopel such as these guys fromteh face of teh planet in one blink of an eye .... now there is an invention worth ahving , afer all it would improve our gene pool and lead to more intelligent poepel populating our planet !

 

[lashton]

maybe they asked stupid people, okay here a few things, pencillin was a discovery and was DNA double helix, appola 10 capsule shouldn't be there we will replace that with the transistor, while the xray machien was an invention, the X-RAy was not nan invention, and at nunmber 1 would have to be pencillin it has saved more lives than any other ibnvention

 

[Guest]

Brewing Ale and the Cornish shovel.

 

[justjc]

can't help but wonder how the Apollo came before the Soyuz. After all Apollo capsules are a thing of the past, where the Soyuz is a design that still works today.

 

[BartG]

mmm, condoms!
Focal lenses, Nuclear fusion... surely something about infrastructure like Steel re inforced concrete.

Or obvious thing like finding out the world is round, not flat... Force of gravity, Perdiodic table...

 

[maydaynomore]

[citation][nom]jacobdrj[/nom]#1 Printing Press#2 Electricity#3 Steam Engine#4 Antiseptics/Pasteurization#5 Penicillin#6 Vaccination#7 Transistor#8 Nuclear Fission/Fusion#9 Compass#10 Astrolabe[/citation]

I completely agree with your #1 choice. The Printing press is the single most important invention of all (think about it).

 

[sonofliberty08]

1.toilet paper
2.diapers
3.pad

 

[Scott2009]

Which Steam Engine are we talking about here ?

 

[Studly007]

That list is ridiculous. Rajangel and jacobdrj got closest to what I would agree with. You can't look at the evolution of the 20th century without recognizing the father of modern electronics - Nikola Tesla. Where would we be without Alternating Current? Existing in Thomas Edison's "DC" world?

1. Alternating Current
2. Electromagnetism (same as the Compass, TV, Electric Motor, Pump)
3. X-Ray
4. Penicilin
5. Antiseptics/ STERILIZATION (not pasteurization)
6. Vaccinations
7. Transistor
8. Discovery of the Neutron (which led to the Manhattan Project)
9. Discovery of Absolute Zero (which led to Development of Liquid Nitrogen, Hydrogen, and Ultimately Helium - THUS - ROCKET FUEL!! )
10. Internal Combustion Engine / Diesel Combustion Engine (Steam Engine has its limits)

* Honorable Mention to Breast Augmentation