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[Terry]

What would you include in this category?

[Benn]

telephone, transistor, light bulb...

[Steven]

The steam engine - it was a revolution for human progress!

[M.Helen]

The Mechanical Clock.
Before this invention, time was inseparable from events, the main one being the Sun crossing the sky.
In a clock-driven world, most of us are now either "on time," "ahead of schedule," or "running late."

[Terry]

The Toilet and Modern Plumbing. Can we imagine such a big city like Paris without toilets? I don't think so. It would be impossible to raise skyscrapers without toilets, since everybody would have to go down and make their deeds!

[Steven]

Antibiotics. Millions of people died because of infections until antibiotics were discovered. Three When the plague broke out in 1347, it killed nearly half of Europe in about two years. Antibiotics is a very useful discovery. Yes, I know it damages instead other organs, but it treats the disease which could kill you in few days.

[Terry]

Television: it swallows the attention of everybody in a room. It changes our way of behaviour, even if we don't notice that.

[Terry]

Cars are obviously a perfect invention. When they appeared the roads improved, when the roads improved the cities improved. Oil industry appeared due to apparition of cars.

[M.Helen]

Computer is probably the greatest invention ever. It can do anything. Thanks to such personalities as Bill Gates, we supply it with good software that makes our lives perfect.

[Faw_Peter]

Relax a little bit guys, watch the greatest human invention ever:

[Terry]

I would include in the category of the greatest inventions - the gun powder. It changed the world radically after it began to be used in wars. It's a great invention, but at the same time, one may say it killed so many human lives. Yes, that's also correct.

[willyoumind]

I would probably choose the lights, television and telephone...

Still, I know there are many other great inventions as well.

[Faw_Peter]

willyoumind, your imagination is very poor, I mean the inventions you mentioned are quite typical. Tell us something new, will you?

[Hakan G]

The best invention is beer.

[willyoumind]

willyoumind, your imagination is very poor, I mean the inventions you mentioned are quite typical. Tell us something new, will you?

Oh, so you want a more bizarre and outstanding inventions here, Peter?

OK, how about the delicious "Taco Bell's Chili Cheese burrito"? Isn't it started to make you mouth watering here lol

[Newrussian town]

The space stations and vodka . But I want that it would be an understanding that people do not have alot of time to fight against each other, and it is time to help and be together. Now you may kill me cose I am from the Evil Empire

[Faw_Peter]

thank you willyoumind!
It would make my mouth watering if I knew what it is and how it looks!
Place a picture of it.

[Karl.in.eu]

Don't do it, I won't be able to eat a day or two

[Benn]

air conditioner became an important part of our life, am not sure if it fits into the 100 greatest human inventions, but, imagine a life without conditioners during the summer in Italy or Greece....
It would make these countries regress to Africa's level.