FabSwingers.com forum: The most important invention in history?

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

Opinions please without the use of Google.

What would people say is the single most important invention of all time?

Electricity?

The seat belt?

Mathematics?

The Internet? Apple tango?

The list is long but there must be one that without it everything else would be magoo.

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By *icecouple561Couple
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over a year ago

East Sussex

the wheel

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By *izzy.Woman
over a year ago

Stoke area

The wheel

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By *icecouple561Couple
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over a year ago

East Sussex

followed closely by the game of Snap

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By *hyllyphyllyMan
over a year ago

Bradford

The internet.

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

Condoms

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By *eavenNhellCouple
over a year ago

carrbrook stalybridge

jaffa cakes

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

String

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By *rightonsteveMan
over a year ago

Brighton - even Hove!

Making fire.

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By *az_1976Man
over a year ago

Peterborough/Huntingdon

Farming

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

Electricity

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By *iscean MaleMan
over a year ago

Darlaston

Tea

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By *rightonsteveMan
over a year ago

Brighton - even Hove!

Written language

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By *yrdwomanWoman
over a year ago

Putting the 'cum' in Eboracum

Antiseptics.

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By *hyllyphyllyMan
over a year ago

Bradford

Caramel Latte

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

The Hitachi wand ?

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

Venetian Blinds ...... Without them its curtains for everyone

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

"Farming"

Arable or pastoral?

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

"The wheel "

Don't think so.

Huge chunks of the world don't or didn't use it.

Even in Europe its importance is overated.

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

its probably the rock(used as a weapon or tool)

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By *rchie300Man
over a year ago

Hamworthy

Medicine

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

If we're not being entirely serious...

Espresso

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By *ust RachelTV/TS
over a year ago

Horsham

Antibiotics, without them we could die of a simple infection.

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By *az_1976Man
over a year ago

Peterborough/Huntingdon

"Farming

Arable or pastoral? "

Arable

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

"its probably the rock(used as a weapon or tool)"

Crap actor tho

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

"Farming

Arable or pastoral?

Arable"

Well in that case, no.

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

Religion for many people X

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

As said before fire, without it the human race would of been wiped out so nothing else would of mattered

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By *ary_JosephCouple
over a year ago

South Shields

Bread

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

"As said before fire, without it the human race would of been wiped out so nothing else would of mattered "

Not an invention tho really, more of a discovery of a natural phenomenon.

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

But if we're being serious: string.

Because thread is thin string. Without it no clothes so can't live (in reasonable numbers) outside temperate zone.

Rope is thick string, without it, well, quite a lot. Including arable farming (need it for most ooerations).

I offer you string. I credit it to Bill Bryson.

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By *obyn GravesTV/TS
over a year ago

1127 walnut avenue

pot noodle

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By *ee VianteWoman
over a year ago

Somewhere in North Norfolk

Birth control

and vibrators!

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

"As said before fire, without it the human race would of been wiped out so nothing else would of mattered "

How so?

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

Language/writing/communication

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By *rightonsteveMan
over a year ago

Brighton - even Hove!

"As said before fire, without it the human race would of been wiped out so nothing else would of mattered

Not an invention tho really, more of a discovery of a natural phenomenon. "

No, they used tools to make fire independently of volcanoes or lighting or natural fires. The ability to make fire was invented/developed.

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

"Antiseptics."

Donnie Darko is smarter than me so I'll go with that too.

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By *rightonsteveMan
over a year ago

Brighton - even Hove!

"As said before fire, without it the human race would of been wiped out so nothing else would of mattered

How so? "
we might have frozen in the ice age.

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

Soap.

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

Jeans.

They spent 13 years and $3billion mapping human jeans so they must be important.

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By *ohnjones3210Man
over a year ago

Chester

Bricks/blocks.

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By *yrdwomanWoman
over a year ago

Putting the 'cum' in Eboracum

"As said before fire, without it the human race would of been wiped out so nothing else would of mattered

Not an invention tho really, more of a discovery of a natural phenomenon.

No, they used tools to make fire independently of volcanoes or lighting or natural fires. The ability to make fire was invented/developed. "

I thought Prometheus gave it to us. Poor bastard's been having his liver eaten every day since.

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

Personally I think it's glass.

Think about it, how it's everywhere, bottles, windows, windscreens, glasses, test tube's, mirrors, cat's eye's, the light bulb syringes the list is endless.

Something we take for granted yet has affected pretty much everything around us.

That or

Chicken tikka byriani.

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

"Soap."

And deodorants

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

Language.

Progress has increased in line with the increase in our ability to share information with each other

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By *adystephanieTV/TS
over a year ago

glos

Penicillin .....I think that's the base for most antibiotics not sure tho but I believe the chain is held securely in only 3 locations worldwide so it sounds pretty important shit ...

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

Tampons - imagine if we still just had rags!

Sarah

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By *iamondsmiles.Woman
over a year ago

little house on the praire

Out that list electricity.

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

"As said before fire, without it the human race would of been wiped out so nothing else would of mattered

How so? we might have frozen in the ice age. "

Not so, fire didn't save us, we lived in the temperate zone.

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By *eMontresMan
over a year ago

Halesowen

The PN junction. It allowed the development of transistors, then Integrated circuits, which gave rise to affordable, practical computers, mobile phones, tablets and the whole interweb

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

"Opinions please without the use of Google.

What would people say is the single most important invention of all time?

Electricity?

The seat belt?

Mathematics?

The Internet? Apple tango?

The list is long but there must be one that without it everything else would be magoo. "

Not an invention, but surely mathematics is bedrock of so many advancements.

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By *LCCCouple
over a year ago

Cambridge

"Tampons - imagine if we still just had rags!

Sarah

Many places in the world today still do.

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

The wheel overrated?

Without it we would not have the majority of inventions that followed

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

You mean like a typical invention ie television!.

Mmmmm probably newcomens engine!

It revolutionised eroei

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

What about the bow and arrow?

Or the flint axe?

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

"The wheel overrated?

Without it we would not have the majority of inventions that followed"

what tool did they use to create the first wheel?

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

"The wheel overrated?

Without it we would not have the majority of inventions that followed

what tool did they use to create the first wheel?"

3d printer

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By *LCCCouple
over a year ago

Cambridge

The bendy-bus?

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

Lego

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

"Penicillin .....I think that's the base for most antibiotics not sure tho but I believe the chain is held securely in only 3 locations worldwide so it sounds pretty important shit ...

The chain?

Also penicillin isnt invented its just the secretions of a specific mould.

(You can grow it at home)

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

"The wheel overrated?

Without it we would not have the majority of inventions that followed

what tool did they use to create the first wheel?

3d printer "

that's more important then.

now how did they invent the 3D printer?

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

"The wheel overrated?

Without it we would not have the majority of inventions that followed"

Yes, agreed, since the industrial revolution. But before that? Not so important.

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

Language

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

Here's another...

The horse collar

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

"The wheel overrated?

Without it we would not have the majority of inventions that followed

what tool did they use to create the first wheel?

3d printer

that's more important then.

now how did they invent the 3D printer?

Derrr they ordered one from amazon.

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By *adystephanieTV/TS
over a year ago

glos

"Penicillin .....I think that's the base for most antibiotics not sure tho but I believe the chain is held securely in only 3 locations worldwide so it sounds pretty important shit ...

The chain?

Also penicillin isnt invented its just the secretions of a specific mould.

(You can grow it at home)"

Well it's not that important then is it ?

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

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By *artytwoCouple
over a year ago

Wolverhampton

"Religion for many people X "

We'll put that down as a curse shall we.

We need to differentiate between Invention and Discovery

Fire was a discovery

Wheel an invention

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By *rightonsteveMan
over a year ago

Brighton - even Hove!

"As said before fire, without it the human race would of been wiped out so nothing else would of mattered

How so? we might have frozen in the ice age.

Not so, fire didn't save us, we lived in the temperate zone. "

Yeah ok. Next!

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

The flush toilet!! Closely followed by Jack Daniels & blowjobs

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

"The wheel overrated?

Without it we would not have the majority of inventions that followed

what tool did they use to create the first wheel?

3d printer

that's more important then.

now how did they invent the 3D printer?

Derrr they ordered one from amazon.

or maybe they printed it with another 3D printer.

The chicken was an important invention. Thank you Colonel Sanders

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

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

The number zero.....

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

"The number zero....."

Good one!

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

I think the invention of the wheels contribution is overinflated!!! Ho ho ho - my work here is done!!!

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

Fire

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By *ohnaronMan
over a year ago

london

The pendulem

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

"Antibiotics, without them we could die of a simple infection."

Unfortunately due to their overuse through Doctors prescribing them unnecessarily we are now at more risk of dying because of them because the strains of bugs have mutated. Victims of our own success?

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

"The pendulem"

Is that like the pendulum?

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

"The number zero....."
pretty sure the number 1was probably invented first.

I mean.

Monkies counting out bananas didn't go zero, one, two, three...

They just went ooooo Ahhhhhhhh eee ooooo one, two, three....

Oh I say shouldn't it go zero, one, two....

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

"Antibiotics, without them we could die of a simple infection.

It isn't doctors - it's vets!

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By *xyzptlk088Man
over a year ago

Galway

"Opinions please without the use of Google.

What would people say is the single most important invention of all time?

Electricity?

The seat belt?

Mathematics?

The Internet? Apple tango?

The list is long but there must be one that without it everything else would be magoo. "

the flushing toilet,I reckon the wheel was probably more discovered than invented.

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By *ormalguy71Man
over a year ago

Tunbridge Wells

Football

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By *p4funCouple
over a year ago

Plymouth

Chocolate buttons

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

"the wheel"

was my immediate thought

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

"Opinions please without the use of Google.

What would people say is the single most important invention of all time?

Electricity?

The seat belt?

Mathematics?

The Internet? Apple tango?

The list is long but there must be one that without it everything else would be magoo.

the flushing toilet,I reckon the wheel was probably more discovered than invented."

found one in a canal?

Some think the sewage system was a mistake. Would have been better to go with dirt toilets.

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By *ullbackbuttMan
over a year ago

Purton

"The bendy-bus? "

No the bendy bus is one of the worse things you just look in Toronto where they are replacing them with British Double Deckers. They keep running in all weathers.

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By *xyzptlk088Man
over a year ago

Galway

"Religion for many people X

We'll put that down as a curse shall we.

We need to differentiate between Invention and Discovery

Fire was a discovery

Wheel an invention

I would say the wheel was a discovery too it was honed for use but nevertheless a discovery,round things have always rolled.

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

"Opinions please without the use of Google.

What would people say is the single most important invention of all time?

Electricity?

The seat belt?

Mathematics?

The Internet? Apple tango?

The list is long but there must be one that without it everything else would be magoo. "

For me - and every woman I'd say - it has to be contraception!

Because of it we can now have careers - which was almost impossible before when we spent years in a permanently pregnant state!

We can also be polygamous - which only men could do before - as the risk of getting pregnant and 'disgraced' has been taken away!

Contraception puts us on an (almost) level playing field to men - without it we'd still be living in men's shadows and our only options would be marriage and motherhood!

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

The needle

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By *ohnaronMan
over a year ago

london

"The pendulem

Is that like the pendulum?"

Fkin swingers

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

"Antibiotics, without them we could die of a simple infection.

It isn't doctors - it's vets!"

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

the sun

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

"The number zero.....pretty sure the number 1was probably invented first.

I mean.

Monkies counting out bananas didn't go zero, one, two, three...

They just went ooooo Ahhhhhhhh eee ooooo one, two, three....

Oh I say shouldn't it go zero, one, two....

We had numbers for a long time...true mathematics only came about after the invention of the concept of zero (Indian invention). This allowed complex calculations on which are based most science, engineering and other things which then led to an explosion of other inventions.

I therefore postulate that zero is the mother of most of the inventions mentioned elsewhere on this thread....it is even wheel shaped!

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By *xyzptlk088Man
over a year ago

Galway

"the sun"

Yes mankind invented the sun (you do mean the newspaper yes?)

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By *illwill69uMan
over a year ago

moston

I see a lot of people saying the wheel which is generally held as the most important invention, however I would suggest that it is the 2nd most important invention.

The most important invention is the lever without which the wheel would never have been invented.

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By *adystephanieTV/TS
over a year ago

glos

"Penicillin .....I think that's the base for most antibiotics not sure tho but I believe the chain is held securely in only 3 locations worldwide so it sounds pretty important shit ...

The chain?

Also penicillin isnt invented its just the secretions of a specific mould.

(You can grow it at home)"

The original mould is the one still used an was produced from a cantaloupe in the1940's

Earnest 'chain' was part of the team that originally worked with the mass production....

The original mould was secretly positioned at 3 locations worldwide.

You can grow penicillin at home for sure but I don't think it is guaranteed to work

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By *rightonsteveMan
over a year ago

Brighton - even Hove!

"The number zero.....pretty sure the number 1was probably invented first.

I mean.

Monkies counting out bananas didn't go zero, one, two, three...

They just went ooooo Ahhhhhhhh eee ooooo one, two, three....

Oh I say shouldn't it go zero, one, two....

The number zero enabled more advanced mathematics....someone invented a symbol to represent nothing. How abstract is that?

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

"I see a lot of people saying the wheel which is generally held as the most important invention, however I would suggest that it is the 2nd most important invention.

The most important invention is the lever without which the wheel would never have been invented.

This isn't true. We've already established it was done on a 3D printer.

Keep up

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By *egasus NobMan
over a year ago

London

Clothing

Electricity

Plane

Internet

Glasses

My Balls

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

"the sun

Yes mankind invented the sun (you do mean the newspaper yes?)"

and god said "let there be light!"

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By *xyzptlk088Man
over a year ago

Galway

"the sun

Yes mankind invented the sun (you do mean the newspaper yes?)

and god said "let there be light!" "

Well I guess man did invent "god" so by proxy I will let you have that one

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

"The number zero.....pretty sure the number 1was probably invented first.

I mean.

Monkies counting out bananas didn't go zero, one, two, three...

They just went ooooo Ahhhhhhhh eee ooooo one, two, three....

Oh I say shouldn't it go zero, one, two....

The number zero enabled more advanced mathematics....someone invented a symbol to represent nothing. How abstract is that? "

Yes Steve.....see my previous post!

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

Thought long and hard and it's actually football

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By *lik and PaulCouple
over a year ago

Flagrante

WD-40

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

"Venetian Blinds ...... Without them its curtains for everyone

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By *illwill69uMan
over a year ago

moston

"This isn't true. We've already established it was done on a 3D printer.

Keep up"

Bet a lever was used to move the printer (and the stuff that made the printer) before it was installed...

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

Sliced bread

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By *ullbackbuttMan
over a year ago

Purton

"WD-40

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

The sky remote. How else would you measure things?!

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

"This isn't true. We've already established it was done on a 3D printer.

Keep up

Bet a lever was used to move the printer (and the stuff that made the printer) before it was installed...

This is certainly likely.

In that case the moped they used to deliver the lever to make the 3D printer to create the first wheel is importanter.

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By *LCCCouple
over a year ago

Cambridge

Gravity, it must have been shit before Newton.

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By *illwill69uMan
over a year ago

moston

"This isn't true. We've already established it was done on a 3D printer.

Keep up

Bet a lever was used to move the printer (and the stuff that made the printer) before it was installed...

This is certainly likely.

In that case the moped they used to deliver the lever to make the 3D printer to create the first wheel is importanter."

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By *mmabluTV/TS
over a year ago

upton wirral

"the wheel"

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

"Gravity, it must have been shit before Newton."

Have you not seen how much fun Tim Peake is having?

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

"Gravity, it must have been shit before Newton."

That made me think about having a shit without gravity......now desperately trying to unthink that thought!

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

"This isn't true. We've already established it was done on a 3D printer.

Keep up

Bet a lever was used to move the printer (and the stuff that made the printer) before it was installed...

This is certainly likely.

In that case the moped they used to deliver the lever to make the 3D printer to create the first wheel is importanter.

Did the moped have wheels? Where did they come from?

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

103 posts and not one of you has said gaffa tape.

Without it the world would fall apart.

Except the bits held together with blue tack.......

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By *enard ArgenteMan
over a year ago

London and France

The most important Discovery would be fire; but it is a discovery, rather than invention.

So the most important " invention" would be the very first tool; even if that is just the first rock that was picked up and used to crack a nut, or kill a rabbit for food; we discovered how to use tools.

Tools ... Fnnahh fnnahhh yes, this is sex site lol

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By *eliciouslyNastyMan
over a year ago

London

"Making fire. "

Yeah I'm with fire.

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

In light of what is just about to happen in the Capital One Cup at Anfield, I would say penalty shoot outs!

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

"Gravity, it must have been shit before Newton.

That made me think about having a shit without gravity......now desperately trying to unthink that thought!"

Nurse, bring the mind bleach, STAT!!!!!!

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

Those little things on penknives for getting stones out of horses hooves.

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By *ub_liminalTVTV/TS
over a year ago

Belfast

Gentle ribbing sexual banter.. Duh. Xx.

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By *amesB66Man
over a year ago

St Peter Port

"String"
String is a very important thing. Rope is thicker, but string is quicker. Spike Milligan

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

CONTRACEPTION

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

"This isn't true. We've already established it was done on a 3D printer.

Keep up

Bet a lever was used to move the printer (and the stuff that made the printer) before it was installed...

This is certainly likely.

In that case the moped they used to deliver the lever to make the 3D printer to create the first wheel is importanter.

Did the moped have wheels? Where did they come from?"

I heard it hovered. Apparently they all hovered until some bugger went round sticking wheels on them.

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By *eMontresMan
over a year ago

Halesowen

Glass. The Chinese never developed it past glazing their teacups and thus never developed lenses which meant that as people aged, they could still read, writer and do further research. Hence, they had an arrestive culture technologically until lenses were introduced from the west.

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By *b586Couple
over a year ago

pemberton twp

"Venetian Blinds ...... Without them its curtains for everyone

Hahahah !

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By *rightonsteveMan
over a year ago

Brighton - even Hove!

When I said fire I mean the invention of the method of making fire. One could argue that wheels were discovered via rolling stuff on tree trunks. I might go with writing because it kept knowledge for a longer period than memory and could be read by others all exactly the same.

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By *bbandflowCouple
over a year ago

South Devon

"You mean like a typical invention ie televi!.

Mmmmm probably newcomens engine!

It revolutionised eroei"

Think you mean energy..and you are correct his engine was the first to produce energy mechanically, thus liberating the means whereby our industrialised society has allowed us to enjoy standards of living unprecedented in the history of humankind.

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

porridge

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

If it isn't sliced bread...then why do we say things are "the best thing since sliced bread"?....and what was the best thing before sliced bread?

(Not counting unsliced bread)....or would it be a Greggs Pastie?

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By *rightonsteveMan
over a year ago

Brighton - even Hove!

Gunpowder changed a lot of things....

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By *eMontresMan
over a year ago

Halesowen

It really is glass - according to QI anyway, I remember watching the episode it was on, along with the explanation I posted above.

The whole issue is debatable and so many things depend on precedents, which in themselves might not be remarkable, but taken in conjunction with other developments, have lead to major breakthroughs

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

"CONTRACEPTION

CONTRACEPTION

Ribbed condoms - for the lady's enjoyment

. X

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By *rightonsteveMan
over a year ago

Brighton - even Hove!

"It really is glass - according to QI anyway, I remember watching the episode it was on, along with the explanation I posted above.

The whole issue is debatable and so many things depend on precedents, which in themselves might not be remarkable, but taken in conjunction with other developments, havie lead to major breakthroughs"

I don't recommend a breakthrough with glass. It would be clear to see it would be a pain.

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By *adystephanieTV/TS
over a year ago

glos

"Gunpowder changed a lot of things...."

Unfortunately guy Fawkes failed ...

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

Velcro! How else will I keep my feet on the ground

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

well I said a tool,like a rock..

but the most important invention?

it is the computer...and it'll end up being something that might just be part of your body and mind.Some people think thats science fiction..I wager not, its in its infancy at present and really only being used as ways to aid disabled people(check the bionic eye for instance),but it'll at some point be consumer tech..

mobile phones,googleglass etc, will all look like ancient tech soon enough.

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By *rishmocha2Couple
over a year ago

Beds

The Jet Engine

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By *evaquitCouple
over a year ago

Catthorpe

Mass production.

The industrial revolution right here in England paved the way worldwide for what we have today, Aces in my book.

Him

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By *thwalescplCouple
over a year ago

brecon

Easy.

The horse-shoe.

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

string and the knot. has to be the most important. closely followed by the axle

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

The analytical engine.

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

time essentially...

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

string was discovered more importantly the knot, which mace fibers useful. has to be the most important. closely followed by the axle wheels were shite before we invented axles

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

Toilet roll

Harry

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By *ohnaronMan
over a year ago

london

The letter box so people had to learn to read

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

lippy !!

oh and nylons

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By *xyzptlk088Man
over a year ago

Galway

Although personally I think it's useless I'm quite surprised the block button hasn't been mentioned numerous times

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

The Slow Cooker

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

Actually I think it may have been the discovery that putting a penis into a vagina causes pleasure

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By *elvet RopeMan
over a year ago

by the big field

"Soap.

And deodorants "

Judging by some people I've encountered, these are things that are yet to be universally discovered

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By *artytwoCouple
over a year ago

Wolverhampton

SCRATCH

It's what everything is made from

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By *iamondjoeMan
over a year ago

Glastonbury

The one thing that everyone here has unthinkingly done...

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By *iamondjoeMan
over a year ago

Glastonbury

Writing

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

Make up

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

The human language. It began before there could be writing and it is vastly different to other animals ways of communication.

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By *ikeC81Man
over a year ago

harrow

Chinese takeaway

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

Probably the electric light bulb

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By *S RachaelTV/TS
over a year ago

Lowestoft

"Probably the electric light bulb "

The internet.

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By *irty Girty From No 30Woman
over a year ago

Burbage

"Opinions please without the use of Google.

What would people say is the single most important invention of all time?

Electricity?

The seat belt?

Mathematics?

The Internet? Apple tango?

The list is long but there must be one that without it everything else would be magoo. "

The most important invention is life

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

False eyelashes

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By *ntimatediscretionMan
over a year ago

eaglescliffe

chocolate digestives...

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

Bacon!

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

Bacon fries must be close

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By *its_n_piecesCouple
over a year ago

message filters

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

Banana fritters..

Or the wheel

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

fifty shades of grey..

oops..

I mistyped

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By *ensualtouch15Man
over a year ago

ashby de la zouch

Does written language count ?

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

My anal flesh light amazing !!

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By *rs DCouple
over a year ago

far

The AK47

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

"Does written language count ?"

That was evolution more than invention.

The printing press would be a good shout though.

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By *inky-MinxWoman
over a year ago

Grantham

The tools to make fire

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By *illbillMan
over a year ago

dublin

Window blinds....cause if wasnt for them it would be curtains for us all

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