The Tuesday List - Ten Inventions That Changed The World

Stuff of Genius ^ | June 24, 2013 | Ed Grabianowski

[CaptainPhilFan]

I have always valued the 1800 watt hair dryer as the greatest invention in history. And walls. Walls are awesome.

[CH3CN]

Indoor plumbing is not on the list? Wow! It’s my favorite-flushing toilets, hot water, dishwashers, sanitary sewage disposal.

[Robert A Cook PE]

Gee. Very basic.

And here I was thinking only that every one of those ten inventions required ... fossil fuel!

(Can you image inventing “fire” if OSHA and the EPA ruled the caves?

[READINABLUESTATE]

Beer

[Former Proud Canadian]

Was fire invented or discovered?

[webheart]

What about the wire coat hanger, the paper clip and duct tape?

[Hot Tabasco]

What would you add/drop to the list of the ten top inventions that changed the world?

Soft toilet paper

[Sherman Logan]

Water wheels and draft animals provided the only 'industrial' power available

And windmills.

[Kirkwood]

Actually you don’t need fossil fuel, but it makes it easier.

[Sherman Logan]

The plow is not a single invention.

A scratch plow is very different indeed in its use and effects from a moldboard plow.

Improvements in plows and harnessing methods during and after the Middle Ages took plowing from a process requiring six oxen to one requiring a single horse.

[Political Junkie Too]

Political spin.

In other words, institutional lying to cover one's bad decisions.

-PJ

[BykrBayb]

Sewing machine.
Indoor plumbing.
Chocolate.

[BykrBayb]

Sewing machine.
Indoor plumbing.
Chocolate.

And oh yeah, 3D printer.

[Vendome]

[dangerdoc]

public hygene movement.

Separating sewage disposal and water supplies.

Drinking sewage has killed more humans that all the wars in the history of the world.

[TexasRepublic]

My aunt was born in 1910 and lived for 96 years. I asked her what what was the most beneficial invention introduced in her lifetime. She said window screens.

[Texas resident]

Eyeglasses.

[Disambiguator]

The thermos is the greatest thing ever invented.

It keeps hot things hot in the winter, and cold things cold in the summer. How does it know?

[ro_dreaming]

Indoor plumbing (toilet/waste, and the kitchen sink/dish washer/laundry).

Toilet paper. I would NOT want to be using leaves.

[workerbee]

- penicillin/antibiotics
- (tin) canned food
- GPS