FabSwingers.com forum: Greatest Invention Ever

By *ensuallover1000 OP Man
over a year ago

Somewhere In The Ether…

What, in your opinion, deserves the much converted accolade?

Both serious answers and funny ones welcome (I’m dead laid back me)

Off you go good folks

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By *ad NannaWoman
over a year ago

East London

Painkillers

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By *asmeenTV/TS
over a year ago

STOKE ON TRENT

Antibiotics

Kettle

Phone

And

You OP xxx

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By *ensuallover1000 OP Man
over a year ago

Somewhere In The Ether…

"Antibiotics

Kettle

Phone

And

You OP xxx"

God bless you gorgeous

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Electricity without it nothing would work to day

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By *asmeenTV/TS
over a year ago

STOKE ON TRENT

"Antibiotics

Kettle

Phone

And

You OP xxx

God bless you gorgeous

I would like to thank your parent's for inventing a fine gentleman xx

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By *aomilatteCouple
over a year ago

Midlands

The Sinclar C5, it's the future

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The transistor. Without it, nothing we have today would exist, practically.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Sliced bread

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By *onderingpurposeMan
over a year ago

Belfast

Lingerie

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Fire, if we had never of invented it we wi=ould still be in cave's lol and possible happier

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The Internet.

Changed the world forever. Some good some bad.

Honestly try and imagine life without it now.

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By *lairekTV/TS
over a year ago

Manchester

The spirit level.

It allowed the cognoscenti to prove that the world is indeed flat...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Firearms. If it wasnt for Joseph whitworth and his rifles we wouldnt have the technology we have today. It was also his innovations with precision engineering that allowed charles babbage to build the difference engine which was the worlds first computer.

And thanks to whitworths innovations in precision engineering during the industrial revolution, it allowed industry standards to be formulated, production to be more efficient, and thus allowed for mass production.

In fact it was whitworths innovations in production lines that allowed henry ford to mass produce the ford model T.

While firearms are a tool for killing, we owe most of our modern way of life to the invention of firearms and the necessity for precision engineering to make firearms better at killing.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Satisfyer Pro

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By *2000ManMan
over a year ago

Worthing

Thanks to Edward Jenner...vaccination.

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By *orkshire JohnMan
over a year ago

keighley/Bradford

The female form....mmmnnnnn

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By *mma29Couple
over a year ago

wirral

Imagine living in a cave freezing during winter and just eating nut and berry's etc. And some genius works out how to start a fire and heat the cave and cook new exciting foods. It would be the best thing ever.

I genuinely don't no how people survived the freezing cold before they had fire.

Going for a walk at night with coat hat and gloves on, I'm still freezing.

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By *adbod7519Man
over a year ago

Leeds

Lubricant

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Imagine living in a cave freezing during winter and just eating nut and berry's etc. And some genius works out how to start a fire and heat the cave and cook new exciting foods. It would be the best thing ever.

I genuinely don't no how people survived the freezing cold before they had fire.

Going for a walk at night with coat hat and gloves on, I'm still freezing.

Watch Wim Hof and you can see we are naturally designed to survive cold.

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By *mma29Couple
over a year ago

wirral

I genuinely don't no how people survived the freezing cold before they had fire.

Going for a walk at night with coat hat and gloves on, I'm still freezing.

Watch Wim Hof and you can see we are naturally designed to survive cold."

I'll have a look at that now. Thanks

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The piano

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The block button (andc webcams of course)

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The written language. Without it, nobody would have known about any of the innovations above, except the inventor and by local word of mouth.

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By *ig_eric_tionMan
over a year ago

IPSWICH

"Fire, if we had never of invented it we wi=ould still be in cave's lol and possible happier

Imagine where we'd be if no one worked out how to put a fire out.

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By *eroLondonMan
over a year ago

Soho

Ticket collectors. You gotta hand it to them.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The wheel and cats eyes. Both simple yet brilliant.

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By *luebell888Woman
over a year ago

Glasgowish

"The wheel and cats eyes. Both simple yet brilliant. "

I was going to say cats eyes. I would be lost without them.

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By *ncemoreroundthesunCouple
over a year ago

on the move

Science and reason

Thongs

The block button

Rik Mayall

Kindles

HP sauce

Monty Python

Tea

Off the top of our heads

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By *exysuzi and Mr.SCouple
over a year ago

CONISTON .Stoke Suburbia. MOORLANDS & BARMOUTH.

OK someone's gotta say it .....the Doxy, it gives my fingers a rest

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Mass production of the horseless carriage , freedom for the poor unwashed , not so good for the planet unfortunately.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Greatest invention....... religion.

(Sits back and waits to see what that cast catches......might need some loaves with the fishes)

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Working from home.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Working from home."

Yes but working from home means easily distracted by Fab

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Bacon rolls

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Garlic bread! I've tried it, it's the future!

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By *all me FlikWoman
over a year ago

Galaxy Far Far Away

WD-40

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Swinging

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By *annaBeStrongMan
over a year ago

Interesting answer

Fertiliser is one of best inventions in history. It completely transformed agriculture and our ability to feed the world.

It was invented by a man named Fritz Haber. He figured out how to extract nitrogen from air.

Sadly it was his invention that created a lot of arms for Germany in WW1 as nitrogen is a key component of explosives

And on top of that he is considered the father of chemical warfare for creating many of the chemical weapons seem in WW1

He’s quoted as saying “during peace time a scientist belongs to the world. During war he belongs to his country”

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By *tephTV67TV/TS
over a year ago

Cheshire

That Wheel was a good un

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By *asmeenTV/TS
over a year ago

STOKE ON TRENT

Make up

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By *berlad69Man
over a year ago

republic of wales

Rennies

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By *lex199169Man
over a year ago

tamworth

"Sliced bread

Going from this it has to be the sandwich. Who ever first placed something in between the sliced bread was a genius. The possibilities are endless and could satisfy literally everyone

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By *ean counterMan
over a year ago

Northants

Thermos flask- you put hot stuff in and it stays hot, you put cold stuff in and it stays cold. How the feck does it know??

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By *nitterWoman
over a year ago

the land of tall tales and yarn

I thought bread was universally acknowledged as the best invention

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By *lex199169Man
over a year ago

tamworth

"I thought bread was universally acknowledged as the best invention

With you in it I’d most certainly agree

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The tea mug . Without it what would we drink tea from

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By *lex199169Man
over a year ago

tamworth

"The tea mug . Without it what would we drink tea from "

Just a plain old mug

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The printing press

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Loo roll, leafs were rough going

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By *asmeenTV/TS
over a year ago

STOKE ON TRENT

"Loo roll, leafs were rough going "

And newspaper x

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Marmite

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Loo roll, leafs were rough going

And newspaper x"

This too and the occasional emergency sock

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By *s LollyWoman
over a year ago

The pub then supermacs ...

Peanubutter

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Fire, if we had never of invented it we wi=ould still be in cave's lol and possible happier

Did we invent it, or discover and harness it?

(Lightning can start a forest fire on a continent that has not a single human)

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By *irtydevil666Man
over a year ago

bristol

Putting pineapple on a pizza......

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The alphabet springs to mind. Although I don’t really think it was invented. Then again, someone must have been the first.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Mathematics

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By *lex199169Man
over a year ago

tamworth

"Mathematics"

Did we invent this or just understand it??? Now I’m puzzled

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Mathematics

Did we invent this or just understand it??? Now I’m puzzled "

Invented or discovered?

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By *lex199169Man
over a year ago

tamworth

"Mathematics

Did we invent this or just understand it??? Now I’m puzzled

Invented or discovered?"

Kind of what I said but loader lol

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Mathematics

Did we invent this or just understand it??? Now I’m puzzled "

I suppose more accurately we learnt to understand it and invented the means to express it.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I genuinely don't no how people survived the freezing cold before they had fire.

Going for a walk at night with coat hat and gloves on, I'm still freezing.

Its seems likely that the ability to make and control fire was a significant part of hominids being able to migrate from Africa where the cold would have been much less of an issue.

More than just heat, it's use to cook food significantly increased the available calories for early humans thus freeing up time that would otherwise have been needed for foraging and could instead be used to fuel the cultural revolution.

At a wider level our ability to harness energy from external sources to perform useful tasks is perhaps the single greatest conceptual difference between humans and all other animals. We didn't stop with fire to keep warm and cook, we used it to drive our machines. With the exception of wind and water power and lately nuclear, solar and geothermal energy, nearly all of humanities achiements rely on our ability to oxidise certain fuels from steel making to jumbo jets, from campfire cooking to coal fired power plants (and everything that is subsequently done with their electricity). Our control of fire has given us everything we have today.

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By *ean counterMan
over a year ago

Northants

Trigger's broom

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By *piderBunnyCouple
over a year ago

Back of Nowhere and Beyond

Speech

Bob

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By *hirdTimesACharmCouple
over a year ago

northamptonshire

"Electricity without it nothing would work to day "

That wasn’t invented. It was discovered x

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By *hirdTimesACharmCouple
over a year ago

northamptonshire

Language. Speech was discovered, but language was created. Without speech, we’d be a bunch of bumbling buffoons.

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By *atriciayoiditTV/TS
over a year ago

hatfield

"What, in your opinion, deserves the much converted accolade?

Both serious answers and funny ones welcome (I’m dead laid back me)

Off you go good folks

"
footie...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Music..

Perhaps it started out with banging out a rhythm with some bones in a cave.

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By *uddy laneMan
over a year ago

dudley

Glass

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The toilet / sanitation/ indoor plumbing.

The romans were quite advanced with this stuff. For almost thousand years after they left, the call of nature basically meant going in a field for most people in the british isles, until the concept & technology picked up again.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The pill (and of course medicine in general)

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Coffee definitely wins everytime lol.

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By *pellboundCouple
over a year ago

Derby and North Wales

It’s got to be…..

Crocs

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Agriculture.

Sure fires great, but the ability to create a reliable food source rather than hunter gathering… genius.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Anaesthetic

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By *yron69Man
over a year ago

Fareham

Cheese

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By *ooBulMan
over a year ago

SNottingham

Blocking calls facility!

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By *assing Fancies xCouple
over a year ago

Sherwood Forest

Mattress

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By *ed-monkeyCouple
over a year ago

Hailsham

Velcro

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By *urtyGentMan
over a year ago

eastleigh

The football!

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By *yron69Man
over a year ago

Fareham

The Haber-Bosch process

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By *ed-monkeyCouple
over a year ago

Hailsham

"The Haber-Bosch process"

Now trending on Google ... Haber-Bosch

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By *herryEatersCouple
over a year ago

East Cheshire

Toothpaste that converted tooth decay into something that wouldn't decay anymore. Kiss goodbye to tooth decay. Yes it vanished as soon as it was announced

, I wonder why...

Insulin inhalers, bought out by a company that decided they didn't make enough profit so they stopped making them

. Watches that reliably detected blood sugar levels without breaking the skin, proven in trials to be as reliable if not more so than standard blood test methods. FDA wouldn't allow them to be mass produced so the inventors had no income

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Bolton.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

M61.

You can bypass Bolton completely

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Socks - love a good pair of socks

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By *odgerMooreMan
over a year ago

Rummage Up The Jumper

You’re all delusional - you all forgot the Jaffa Cake!!! Is it a cake or a biscuit? Oooh a foot in both camps…. Yeah.. I said it!!!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Has to be the scotch egg.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The cat flap - just the whole concept of a door within a door. Mind-blowing.

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By *elvet RopeMan
over a year ago

by the big field

Contraception!

Now if only they could invent a retroactive version to rid the planet of some of the idiots, politicians & Kardashians

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The wheel............

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By *odgerMooreMan
over a year ago

Rummage Up The Jumper

"The wheel............"

Worst quiz show ever!! You’re mad I tell you!!!!

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By *rHotNottsMan
over a year ago

Dubai & Nottingham

My chicken tikka saag-dhansak , it’s amazing. And agriculture, Thankyou Neolithic woman

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By *iman2100Man
over a year ago

Glasgow

Cooked food.

It enabled us to eat and digest quickly so gave us time to think. From thought all else emanates.

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