Opinions - 3. Inventions

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Inventions
What do you think is the greatest invention in the history of man? Or, what do you think is the greatest invention that you can see being made possible in the next 50 years?

there are so many it's hard to pick one. I'm looking forward to the (intellegent) debate this thread may bring.I'll just throw this one out for concideration...underground plumbing. Maybe not so much an invention but an inovation and development. Nothing has had a greater impact on the life expectancy of humans... ever

The knife.

Important Canadian inventions...Standard TimeInsulinRobertson Screws (laughable to see americans trying to drive 2" Phillips wood screws)acrylicsbasket ball

A few Irish inventions:- The Beaufort Scale- Boyle's Law (pressure/Volume relationship)- First Guided Missile- Induction Coil- Self Exacting Dynamo- Forward Bladed Centrifugal Fan- Nickel-Zinc Rechargeable Battery- The Gregg System- Theory Of Quaternions- First Modern Submarine- Meldometer- Steam Calorimeter- Photometer- Kyanisation- Binaural (Double Earpiece) Stethoscope- Ejector Seat- Steam Turbine- Zeeman Effect - Hypodermic Syringe- Stokes' law- Stokes Parameters- Caterpillar Track- Earnest Walton in collaboration with John Cockcroft, became the first people in history to artificially split the atom, thus ushering the nuclear age.- Guinness

I kept my list to those things that touch the life of the common man.there are also much more essoteric Canadian inventions like the retractable beer carton handle (Tuck-away-handle Beer Carton)

The ejector seat doesn't touch your life? 'Cause I'd like to get one.

Well we also invented:1. The water-proof towel2. Solar powered flashlight3. Submarine screen door4. A book on how to read5. Inflatable dart board6. A dictionary index7. Ejector seat in a helicopter8. Powdered water9. Pedal-powered wheel chair10. Waterproof tea bag

Oh yeah? Gatorade was invented in Florida. So was the mechanical refrigerator (1851), because warm Gatorade sucks. And the first suntan cream was invented here in Miami Beach in 1944.

not that big of a deal... all Canadian cars come with them standard.One of those saftey features we have, like Daytime Running Lights

http://www3.sympatico.ca/taniah/Canada/things/Don't forget things like:CanadarmElectron MicroscopePablumTelephoneZipper

We'd be very backwards without many of those inventions.Didn't realize that multiple applications and laws of fluids were originally discovered in Ireland.