Top 10 Scientific Inventions: X-Ray Places First

[sailfish]

The Brits look at the world strangely. A much more reasonable list:

Skateboard
Hula Hoop
Cartoons
Core memory
Connect 4
BioShock
Amiga
Cotton Candy
Pogo stick
8" floppy drive

 

[rockyjohn]

Having read the other comments I am now ready to set forth a group of lists - covering discoveries and inventions - with such diverse items that it is hard to compare. Also many beg the question which is more important, the basic research or invention of an indispensable component or the final assembly.

Basic Living
1. Language
2. Clothing
3. Agriculture
4. Wheel
5. Fire
6. Writing
7. Mathematics
8. Crapper/toilet

Health
1. Germ theory of disease
2. Vaccination
3. Antibiotics (one could argue for the more specific like penicillin)
4. Birth control methods - more specifically the pill

Mechanical Power and Transportation
1. Steam engine
2. Train
3. Steamboat
4. Internal combustion engine
5. Automobile
6. Airplane

Electical & Electronics
1. Electicity
2. Lights
3. Telegraph and telephone
4. Vaccum tube/diode
5. Radio and televsion
6. Computer
7. Transistor
8. Internet
9. Communications technology

 

[g_m_kioko]

the engine is the best. after its invention the world became a village making it possible to get to any part of the world first and even going to space possible

 

[Guest]

for me its not an appreciable list,since it doesn't include atom bomb