3 of the Greatest Inventions Ever!

[100musicmaniac]

REMEMBER THESE ARE MY OPINIONS!

In my opinion, the three most important inventions are the telephone, solar panels and vaccines. They all save lives and are important to the human race. Telephones are probably the least important invention of the three, but if you need help you can call 911 or just call your parents. Solar panels help us conserve energy and they also serve as a nice shade. Vaccines support good health by blocking or preventing viruses. As you can see these are great inventions to use in different kinds of emergencies.

Phones

The telephone is a big part of modern people’s social lives. It helps people communicate with each other, not only socially, but also in emergencies. The original telephone was created by Alexander Graham Bell in 1876. It was upgraded to what we have today: a phone with water-proof technology, texting capability, fun games and more. Without the telephone invention, the people of the world would be far less connected. Phones have become something that even kids have in 5-6th grade. This invention truly made a big impact on the world.

Solar Panels

Solar panels are important because they help us save energy. We need to save energy because it’s one of the things that people can’t make without harming the natural resources we have. Even with their high prices, they have made a big impact on our society’s energy earnings. They are such an important resource that we will soon be installing them in many more locations. It’s important to save our natural resources because we need them to produce more important things, such as oxygen.

Vaccines

Finally, vaccines are important because they save lives. Vaccines are a kind of medicine that helps prevent illnesses from viruses, such as measles, chicken pox and small pox, which are very serious diseases. Vaccines are important because they keep people from sickness and even death. Health is more important than solar power and solar power is more important than sociality. Vaccines are so important that the whole human race could die without them!

These three inventions make a very big impact on humans’ lives. They save lives, conserve important resources, and promote social lives. It’s incredible how inventions have impacted the world. Without these things how would we live?

What do you think?

[musical_kittycat]

I agree with the second two, but phones are not NECESSARY for life. (I know you never said this, but I'm just pointing out that it's not one of the greatest inventions ever, in my opinion, if it's not entirely necessary.)

I also know I'm going to get backlash for this, so I'll clarify a few things: Yes, I know that humans are much better off with the Internet, but the Internet can be accessed on other devices besides phones. Also, I realize it's so easy to call or message someone—but what about landlines and email? Those serve the same purpose, but nobody wants to pull out their computer or walk ten feet to get the home phone… why?

I implore you, try living without your phone for a week. Trust me, you'll live.

**I do not have a phone, and I've lived for a while, haven't I?**

[Lukas_95]

i think they dont mean phones of today.. i think they mean telecommunication; so.. you know the very old telephone? So.. what would you say about that? when they didn't mean mobile phones.. ; when they meant the first transmitting of the speech over a long distance? i mean.. yeah.. its still not too great..., because before that, there were other ways to communicate; so transmitting words.. didn't change too much.. its more an extra...; but mhh.. if we think about normal people, who didn't learn morse code.. or similar.., its much more interesting.. because for the normal population it was a revolution; they didn't need to send letters anymore.. their lives got so much easier. (when enough phones were in the world)

[musical_kittycat]

@Lukas_95 I mean smartphones and cellphones, not telephones. Telephones are good.

[100musicmaniac]

Good response, but I don't mean new phones, I mean the basics of communication. Plus, lagging back and getting a computer takes time, but phones are like mini computers, you know?

[musical_kittycat]

I guess so, but I still stand by my point. Thanks for providing an opinion and feedback for my opinion! :D

[errorgoodnameunfound]

Imma have to disagree with you like a lotta comments. You may not value phones, but for some people, the phone has literally changed so many things for the better. A lot. A ton. Some people may abuse it and I get the hate on that, but some like me? My phone isn't some toy. It's a computerized tool. You are 13. Wait till you are older to say you don't have a phone. It's actually kinda hard to believe you are 13 and not some 80 year old with a profile saying 13... I guess I get that yes there are other devices and the internet is really what makes any importance of the phone, but most people's internet access comes off a phone now. It's just how it is. Landlines are dated and a HUGE waste of money. Just like, in my opinion, TVs, and home internet (in some ways). Now, what's the point of TVs when shows are mainly online? Also, PHONES often give hotspot access. If you can get a plan of 100 GBs and push your phone to give that as a hotspot, you are set. I did that for a while. Saved me A LOT.

[musical_kittycat]

Thanks for MHO!

[JimRSmith]

Not sure those beat the wheel, tbh...

[Anonymous]

I agree all three are quite important. I know for a fact though people are going to bash phones and Americans more likely, solar panels. To anyone that don't like phones, sorry, but you likely have one don't you? And especially if it's a smart phone, your reliance on it is likely more than you think, like it or not. It's up to you to take full advantage of it, as it can do so much and yet, I see quite few actually explore possibilities. On solar panels as somebody studying in Israel, I can fully say, they are EVERYWHERE! Every single roof has em. There are solar farms quite often. It's not like other countries that have access to things so easy that they don't have to worry about conservation as much. Israel really doesn't have much choice. The sun is always gonna shine and we have it a vast majority of the year, so I think it works quite well. Just like drying machines are a luxury here too and again, dependence often on the sun to dry clothes. Why not? Many Americans (I think especially Americans) may not get solar panels. Come out of your bubble already. The world is more than America. Sorry. Go to even a developing country like Colombia and, even at a gas station in the middle of NOWHERE, there are RECYCLING BINS. Pretty sure they use solar energy more often there too. Just like I am pretty sure places like China, Japan or Europe are open to them. Sorry, US, but you are behind on this. Time to catch up! But anyways, good take!

[Lukas_95]

i disagree with phones and solar panels; we could communicate even without phones over big distances, morse code etc..; and solar panels are only a good alternative to other power plants.. but they we see.. for the western world.. it hasn't too much influence...; you need lots of sunshine for getting the most of energy out of it.. and for the middle european and north American climat its not too important.. it won't replace coal- or nuclear power plants; because the sun is not a reliable source of energy and not too strong in colder climates; i would replace them with book printing (spreading knowledge) and engines (steam/electric)(industrialisation)

[Barrabus_the_Free]

Phones... as opposed to, say, trigonometry, the magnetic compass, the internal combustion engine, the airplane, the generation and transmission of electricity, radio...

And solar panels... a device that generates energy, but that costs more energy to create than it will generate during its lifetime.

SMH...

[davidrees]

Packet switched networks have revolutionised the way we communicate, do business, govern, and meet people. I think the telephone is important, but it may be most important as a precursor to packet switching.

I'm less enthusiastic about solar panels due to their poor lifetime efficiency in many cases, but that's drastically improving.

[SmoMan71]

Fire, without it nothing else would have ever happened.

The plow. Without it we never would have left the hunter-gatherer stage of our history

Space exploration, without it none of our modern technologies would work. not to mention if we plan on surviving as a species we will eventually need to leave earth.

[MrMysteryMan]

Hmmm you guys are forgetting the printing press really. That is THE most singular best invention, which brought about development of education and helped broaden the minds of many. Without that invention, the educated would still be a few instead of anyone who wanted to be.

[Bachnalian]

Oh and riding don't forget writing.

[Goodwifie]

Greatest inventions.
Portable defibrillator, saved so many lives.
Vaccines.
Epi pens, another life saver.

Mobile phones are a pain because they can be a constant source of distraction.
I love going to the gym and leaving my phone in the locker.

[Lukas_95]

you can be sure that vaccines saved more lives than portable defibrillators; mhh.. we dont talk about inventions which are useful.. we are talk about inventions which had a very big and "good" influence on the humanity

[Goodwifie]

@Lukas_95 I put them in no specific order 👍.

[StrangerByTheDay]

i disagree with Smartphones. in my own opinion, 2 decades ago, cell phones were useful. today smartphones are controlling our lives. for instance, i have nothing installed on my smartphone, but the necessary. for the rest, i try to use a laptop or pc. more comfortable. that is a very big subject to discuss, not in this post though. but i hope i made my own opinion clear... :D
cheers

[ManOnFire]

I agree about the phone, and especially today's smartphones, but not on the other 2. There are better energy efficient inventions than solar cells and vaccines have their issues. I even read an article about 5 doctors who mysteriously ended up dead after they discovered cancer cells in a vaccine.

I would say the 3 best inventions are:
- Plumbing/pipes/water works
- The automobile like somebody else said
- and all the stuff in hospitals that keep people alive: respirators, IVs, etc.

[Cheetah23]

Dear god, stop believing every obviously fake conspiracy theory you read on the internet. Those doctors were all found to have had deaths COMPLETELY irrelevant to the vaccines, one of them was even a chiropractor who had nothing to do with vaccines from memory.
www.politifact.com/.../

Don't spread such bullshit. People like yourself end up believing it and saying it everyone without even researching the facts.

[Cheetah23]

Doctor 1: 67 year old dead in his car from natural causes. He's also CHIROPRACTOR (who'd have no relation to such vaccines.
Doctor 2: Woman murdered by two men her husband hired in order to get insurance money.
Doctor 3: Suicide (after alleged fight with wife).
Doctor 4: Old EYE-doctor went hiking in Montana, never returned & is still unfound.
Doctor 5: The ONLYYY doctor to be connected to vaccines said some crap about him thinking vaccines lead to autism, but this was debunked by many scientific research. He died in 2015, alleged self influcted wounds, not murder, and people made up conspiracy theories after his death simply because he was the one who thought autism could be caused by vaccines.

[ManOnFire]

@Cheetah23 Lol! I know what the media said but any story can be created to make it look like what they want it to look like. You gotta question: FIVE doctors who all discovered the same thing really end up dead in close timing from natural causes? Nahhh get real.

[Cheetah23]

You clearly dont! If you read what i said you'd know 4/5 of those doctors didn't even discover anything remotely RELATED to vaccines! Only one! And they were from different times/years.
Media is faking this news

[ManOnFire]

@Cheetah23 Whether the instances were apart or not, they all still died after they discovered something, baby sister. Don't believe EVERYthing you read.

[errorgoodnameunfound]

Dude, I am guessing you are in America or something. Go visit another country, particularly, one that uses almost nothing but solar panels, then come back and tell me it's not efficient. May not be THE most efficient, but it's pretty high up there. In the country I am in, Israel, solar panels are quite literally on every roof. And surprise, surprise, electricity isn't too expensive. Like a few pennies every day. So... yah... think outside your own country dude...

[ManOnFire]

@errorgoodnameunfound For a country like yours in the desert with lots of sun then of course it would work for you. You have to consider the differences in different places. Cost is higher for us, and population. And moneymakers of all types will take advantage of these factors.

[Cheetah23]

Discovered nothiiiiing to do with vaccines. I wonder how many times i have to repeat this critical ppint. Their deaths have nothing to do woth it when they didn't discover shit to do with vaccines. Some of them haven't even discovered anything remotely murder worthy. Tf is an eye doctor gonna e nurdered for? Quit reading fake conspiracy theories

[errorgoodnameunfound]

If you think about it though, any place can only get so much cloud cover in a year. And if a solar panel farm in a place like Florida is set up for mass distribution, I think it can work quite nicely. I am quite defensive of solar energy, since no matter what, the sun will ALWAYS rise, every day, no matter for how short of time, we know it will. It's literally a thousand dollars being given for free every day and it seems the Earth would rather only take 50$ of it instead. That's quite dumb if you ask me. In the end maybe solar energy isn't THE most efficient, but in the end of the day, that and wind power are among probably the smartest forms of energy. My main point to writing what I did wasn't 100% directed towards you per say, but to the shocking amount of people on here that seem pretty against solar energy. You can't deny that if you CAN use it, it's really amazing, and shouldn't be taken for granted. Most of the world gets plenty of sun and wind. Can't deny that.

[ManOnFire]

@errorgoodnameunfound Yeah I actually am not against solar energy at all, it's just that it's still something of an expensive thing here. What I would like to see is that Bloombox guy come back. He had an invention for home energy that was completely wireless, but then he just disappeared later.

[errorgoodnameunfound]

I can swear I saw solar panels at Costco before. I think the only reason it's expensive is because of the other monopolies having a tight grasp on energy providing, so there is less demand. They likely make it hard to go solar on purpose. i wonder if it's one of those expensive up front but cheaper over time kind of things. Again, if it's on EVERY, and I quite literally mean EVERY building here, it can't be THAT expensive! Israel is a Jewish state right? Do you have ANY idea how infamous Jews are for being cheap asses? XD You REALLY think we'd use it if it was THAT pricey? HELL no! This country has active boycotts remember? We HAVE to be find ways to cut costs somehow! Also, I even have a source claiming that solar energy is in fact CHEAPER, despite most of the world running on fossil fuel. futurism.com/.../
Also, the Bloombox you mention... is THIS it? https://www.bloomenergy.com/

[ManOnFire]

@errorgoodnameunfound Yeah I think that's it.

[Astoriana]

The sanitary sewer.

That’s it.

That’s the invention that made all others possible.

Without it, we would still be living in shit and dying in middle age.

[winterfox10]

This made me laugh

[Astoriana]

@winterfox10 people say that the most ridiculous things are the best invention ever. They’re wrong. Sanitary sewer.

[winterfox10]

My votes go to Sanitary Sewers, Printing Press, and Fire.

[Astoriana]

@winterfox10 mmm I agree with the printing press.

[Jjpayne]

In order, maybe vaccines, phones then solar panels. Vaccines in that they save lives, phones in that they change the way we communicate, and solar panels are saving the planet by lessening energy consumption.

[100musicmaniac]

It wasn't in any particular order, but that's true!

[Anonymous]

Agriculture -foundation civilization. Otherwise we’d be hunter gatherers

Mathematics. - allows engineering and building building and almost everything else

Sanitation and Medicine - quality of life is so much better

Scientific Method - experimentation and analysis is the foundation of all things

After that comes stuff like Electricity, Integrated circuits and computers.

[errorgoodnameunfound]

Fuck math. It was needed. Now? NOPE. It's funny cause me and my dad disagree on SO MUCH, YET one thing we BOTH 100% COMPLETELY agree on is FUCK MATH. It's worthless now. We have tech. Google. Bing. Tech calculates shit for us now. Tech calculates shit to build other tech! This is kinda... a dated list...

[Opinion Owner]

@errorgoodnameunfound good luck trying to build a house or even make a computer without math

[errorgoodnameunfound]

Oh, I will. Know why? Cause I will invest in 3D printers for that shit. Make enough money to have my hose fully 3D printed. Same with a laptop or computer in the future, if physical computers are even necessary at that point. Again, computers do the real math for us. All we have to do is program them to. A computer will always be able to calculate math faster than a human. So... what's your point... We needed math at some point to make the computers, but now that they are made and ya know, it's fuckin 2018 and not 1678, it's pretty useless. Some math I guess can be useful, but shit like algebra? Useless. Absolutely useless.

[hemadesouza]

Okay!
I am gonna disagree with you here!!

The greatest invention of the current century is the 'Internet'

[SuccessfulHornDog]

ramp, fulcrum, lever, wheel, pulley, stairs, arch, gears, springs
Boats > exploration and trade
Printing press > recording knowledge for others > Libraries
Schools
Lighting
Automation
Computerization
Interweb

[Kiran04]

Solar panels? How so? Every solar panel starts its life with nearly 10 years of carbon footprint debt. The manufacturing process for them creates tons of pollutants which must be shipped via truck to authorized dump sites, trucks that spew even more pollutants. They don't save squat. They're virtue signaling for people who know nothing about them. They're almost worse than coal. Almost.

[LegateLanius]

The nail - The earliest known use of this very simple but super-useful metal fastener dates back to Ancient Egypt, about 3400 B. C. If you are more partial to screws, they’ve been around since Ancient Greeks (1st or 2nd century B. C.).
Gunpowder - this chemical explosive, invented in China in the 9th century, has been a major factor in military technology (and, by extension, in wars that changed the course of human history).
Mathematics

[Logorithim]

There's going to be a range of opinions on this, but I'm going to go old school and say

1) Writing
2) Wheels
3) Electricity

Everything else is derived from them.

[leelouB]

My thoughts exactly :)

[Lukas_95]

you mean with writing... the invention of paper or something similar and something to write on it; mhh.. i agree partly.., ofc knowledge can be passed to other generations by having knowledge on paper; but.. i think "printing" was a bigger invention, with more influence on the world; we are not talking about the inventions, which makes all possible.. we are talking about the greatest inventions with the most influence on the humanity in the time it was invented. Printing and i mean bookprinting made it possible to spread knowledge all over the world.. even poor people can get knowledge easily, because books became cheaper and were suddently on the market.. before that.. books were rare / expensive. Ok.. i could talk more and more.., i better let it bet..; i agree with wheels and electricity.. ; electricity, when it became wide spread ofc.. and accessible for many people. So you actually mean: a generator, or something which makes lots of electric energy; a power plant

[Lukas_95]

electricity is not an invention, its a discovery; you know there are eels who can produce an electrical impulse; so yeah you meant wide spread usage of electricity for instance in form of light bulbs and much more..; industrialisation is the keyword; ok, have a nice day, enjoy the spring

[DeeDeeDeVour]

Nice Take. I chose the airplane, the automobile & the telephone as my top 3.

[Clarke498]

Phones? It started out as something good, but had a hard fallback. The wheel on the other hand. Improved civilization like crazy and didn't have any fallbacks. It also gave us cars, and planes and so much else.

[errorgoodnameunfound]

Interesting... you have a point that these things have a much deeper foundation. Clever.