Top 10 Inventions of All Time

[@WatchMojo]

At 3:44, we obviously meant to say Millennium and not Century. An error was made when we recorded the voice-over. We re-recorded the correct term but then forgot to use the correction when we edited the final version of the video. While we strive to avoid all errors, given the multiple steps and people who work on a given video, it can happen from time to time. We apologize for the error.

[@HSGAutomotive]

No problem. Hey, even Rolls-Royce's rust. :)

[@TheJaws600]

Also, the Phone was invented by Antonio Meucci, not Bell.

[@HSGAutomotive]

I don't think you really understood the point of my comment dude.

[@TheJaws600]

no bro, in fact I was replying to WatchMojo :D

[@tommvp]

no excuses. Fire the mofo who eff up.

[@gyuusen5038]

shout out to those people who read the comments to find some answers to their assignments

[@anousheh4828]

LMAO MEEEEE SRSLY THAT'S WHAT I WAS DOING SCROLLING THROUGH THIS

[@dynamiclife6864]

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[@theobamiumchronicles2838]

HOW DO YOU KNOW LIKE ACTUALLY

[@alitabraiz]

You mean me

[@gyuusen5038]

@@theobamiumchronicles2838 black magic

[@motmahp]

How about numbers? You couldn't have Top 10s without them.

[@nanoguy-ob2tb]

@åpoi They invented it back in the times of Mesopotamia, dummy.

[@nanoguy-ob2tb]

@åpoi And yes science was very common to the Arab world. I can name 10,000 scientists minimum.

[@nanoguy-ob2tb]

@åpoi For example, who's Ibn Al Nafis? Or Ibn Al Haytham?

[@nanoguy-ob2tb]

@åpoi Where are you even from?

[@nanoguy-ob2tb]

@Anand Sunder Exactly. European scientists and inventors couldn't invent anything without the help of Arabs. Arabs were the ones who first invented everything, and made it simple for the Europeans to do what they want to do. However, the European scientists get the most attention and credit. This, fortunately, is "uno-reverse carding", since all immigrants who go to Europe and the US are the ones who founded companies such as Google, were CEO's of companies such as Microsoft, and would represent the majority of employees. They would boost westerner-economies. PS I'm Arab. :)

[@WatchMojo]

Indeed in a very strict technical sense, electricity was discovered but its application in lightbulbs etc. were inventions. Also, we also bundled the Internet, radio, TV etc. under communications to make the list most complete. Guilty as charged, hope you enjoyed the list.

[@SolarWindsRider]

Neat and consistent list, everything that should be there is there. Only not sure about lenses; yes, this thing is important, but in no way it's in the same league with the rest of the list.

[@Christoph-ce4hj]

SolarWindsRider As someone who needs to wear glasses I have to disagree about that.

[@SolarWindsRider]

Christoph Bujnow Well, if you go about correcting eyesight, why not include laser correction instead ? There are tons of things that had more impact on humanity. Again, if you talk about health issues, the advancement of surgery and new methods of diagnostic are much more important.

[@SolarWindsRider]

Steven Hyman Well, they had gunpowder in honorable mentions. Come to think of it, they could also include computers as separate position. Internet was part of communications, but computers are more than just networks. They govern\simplify literally every sphere of modern life.

[@SpaceMountainLarry]

SolarWindsRider lenses led to the telescope and the camera. Without the telescope or camera, there would be no space exploration.

[@mkballarta3003]

10. Paper 9. Compass 8. Refrigerator 7. Printing press 6. Plumbing 5. Medicine 4. Engine 3. Wheel 2. Communication 1. Electricity

[@lucypeerboom6259]

Agriculture

[@midamulti-tool3656]

dude THANK you. need this for some bs assignment and i couldn't find a comment.

[@memoriesbrokenthetruthgoes9105]

Thanks

[@AryanKumar-xi2jg]

thx sooo much ima copy u for my homework

[@smritilal297]

Aircraft

[@Gravitynaut]

Mesopotamia invented the wheel, and also, I'm glad you mentioned Nikola Tessla a few times, he's usually overshadowed by Edison, but he invented the AC current, so he's just as revolutionary.

[@atoaster5802]

They forgot about toasters.

[@aaronsova7927]

toaster should be #1

[@mahmoudheliel3179]

in arab world toaster isn't found we use microwave ovens and we don't use toast we use another more delicious bread

[@joshcastillo6330]

) :l ...

[@atoaster5802]

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[@joshcastillo6330]

huh?

[@Thebossstage1]

But we didn't invent electricity, it existed long before we did

[@Ingens_Scherz]

We invented generating electricity? How's that?

[@szymusiek1980]

natural electricity and generated electricity are two different things. We invented a generated electricity independently of the lightning bolts.

[@szymusiek1980]

ludocrat yes, we invented generating electricity by moving the metal wire towards the magnets. It's something which nature has never done before.

[@IndyRosebush]

szymusiek1980 yeah, that's still not 'inventing', it's discovery. Big difference.

[@szymusiek1980]

IndyRosebush so you should also think that the dynamite is a discovery, not inventing. After all, jointing nitroglycerine with diatomaceous earth always gives a substance called dynamite. This is exclusively a discovery.

[@WatchMojo]

Ok, one last one: Who Was Albert Einstein Top 10 Nerd Icons

[@DrSevenfold666]

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[@DarkKnight52365]

top 10 war movies

[@Kenty123456789]

Top 10 War Movies

[@AbuAl-Ridha]

all really good inventions, but I feel like soap should be on the list

[@arrownoir]

How about a top 10 worst movie accents of all time.

[@ZeppelinBigFan]

I can't believe how genius the inventors of these things were. If I went back 500, even 1000 years back knowing what I know today, I probably wouldn't be able to "invent" any of these things...

[@thearchitect27]

Well it seems you know very little then, even with the internet literally at the tips of your fingers!

[@rodrigonewow]

thearchitect27 so edgy.

[@ZeppelinBigFan]

thearchitect27 Yeah, like you could have invented any of this shit..

[@thearchitect27]

ZeppelinBigFan My peeps invented Algebra, bitches!!! As a species of the human race, you have to have a better attitude than that, you negative nancy!

[@ZeppelinBigFan]

thearchitect27 How has this anything to do with attitude? Your "peeps"? Yeah right..

[@einarjonsson8931]

Sorry Watchmojo electricity is not an invention but discovery.

[@needpars]

+Einar Jonsson agreed

[@HarrySingh23824]

As well the king of it is Nikkola Tesla and the fraud Edison should not even be mentioned

[@nish9558]

Einar Jonsson aggrrree

[@LatinAce103]

Don't u have to built it to make it

[@marielleoquindo4737]

Sorry. But invention and discovery is the same

[@DFox-kv9pi]

Electricity is not an invention it is an energy that we learned to utilize.

[@ForzaNinetails]

By that argument what's the difference from learning to utilize steam with an engine, or learning to utilize magnetism with a compass? I think the point in the video is all the things we were able to create with it.

[@livingroomsuperstar]

Agreed. Electricity is more of a discovery. Cavemen learned to harness and use fire, but they didn't "invent" it.

[@SeanP7195]

I've been sitting here trying to get electricity to work for me by using my mind. Of course its an invention. The apparatuses needed for it at are clearly inventions. People knew of electrical current for centuries but could do nothing with it. You could say the same thing of steam and combustion engines. A combustion engine is essentially harnessing fire.

[@blackprince3577]

its not electricity that is an invention as there are natural forms of electricity that occur in nature without human intervention but the way in which natural materials are harnessed and processed and put together is the invention. And like many other inventions theres hardly an inventor of it.

[@roodfooddoods]

@@SeanP7195 the mind is a vast interconnected web of lecky mate

[@patrickcc112]

Nice list, I'd be hesitant to call electricity an invention though. It's more of a discovery.

[@erzan]

The light bulb.

[@ILoveGrilledCheese]

Yeah if they said the harnessing of electricity I could get on board with that.

[@L.A51]

I don't know in which planet do you live in but everyone knows that the wheel was invented in Misopotamia.

[@Matthew-wl8tk]

Ancient Cro Magnon proto Europeans created the wheel and domesticated horses before they were even human. Mesopotamia inventing the wheel is modern bullshit just like most things in grade school history books.

[@Matthew-wl8tk]

@@L.A51 Not really a rebuttal, but ok.

[@L.A51]

@@Matthew-wl8tk listen carefully pal, it is a proven fact that the wheel was invented in Mesopotamia. The first wheel was used for pottery around 4000BC. Go look it up

[@velocitaaa]

Electricity wasn't invented. It was harnessed.

[@bob123789456]

Sorry but my personal favorite invention will always be the backscratcher.

[@upasanamohanty]

Haha😂

[@itzMoJo67]

This was very accurate, although, I would have put internet by itself in the second spot. Such a invention has changed civilization once again on a grand scale.

[@vip-cw1st]

Its in the communication section

[@hurrdurrmurrgurr]

Sliced Bread wasn't number one this list has failed.

[@roodfooddoods]

sliced eggs mate

[@Tonenciuc]

electricity is not an invention, it is a discovery. Tesla is for me number one scientist in the universe.

[@ryanward5770]

I would consider AC or DC an invention simply because it is a way of using electromotive potential. If that still wouldnt satisfy I would probably say battery for DC or generator for AC

[@midamulti-tool3656]

ATTENTION ASSIGNMENT PEOPLE: 10. Paper 9. Compass 8. Refrigerator 7. Printing press 6. Plumbing 5. Medicine 4. Engine 3. Wheel 2. Communication 1. Electricity

[@ThereIsNoDog96]

I agree with most of this. Just that, paper is more important than the printing press, seeing as, you know, without paper there would be no printing press.

[@jam6772]

This comment is so old but im still going to reply lol. I think its not that as great as a printing press since people can still write on other things such as rocks. I think what makes printing press amazing is that you can make multiple copies of a writing without actually copying. Plus its faster & more efficient

[@jackzhou4813]

@@jam6772 Can the printing machine print fonts on the stone?

[@jam6772]

@@jackzhou4813 why do fonts matter here? The important thing here is its legibility😭

[@jackzhou4813]

@@jam6772 Are you sure that the words on the stone are easier to read than the words on the paper?

[@jam6772]

@@jackzhou4813 if you consider todays time then no since writings has already evolved. But if you consider the ancient times, only ancient people would understand it.

[@WatchMojo]

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[@DrSevenfold666]

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[@davidcor3426]

We watched this video today in our classroom.

[@osmand6364]

the steam engine sure was a great invention. Videogames have never been so cheap.

[@pinkeshchannel4471]

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[@robpk63]

The steam turbine still delivers 80% of the Worlds power needs, power needed to enable you to play your video games.

[@AquaCitea]

@@robpk63 It's just a joke dude

[@mythical8271]

6 years ago

[@AquaCitea]

@@mythical8271 yes

[@user-ky6vw5up9m]

1) a container to carry water 2) the means to light a fire 3) the tools and means to hunt and fish and later grow crops 4) the tools and method to create shelter 5j) warm clothing and footware 6) the wheel

[@madhatterman01]

electricity isn't an invention as much as it is a discovery

[@ZunaZurugi]

yeah but the inventions of how to use it right... like the Ohm's law

[@SAsgarters]

Electricity, much like fire, is a discovery, not an invention.

[@3rdGenGuy]

Well they were able to capture it and then use it.

[@JellybellyWaffles]

Can we not create electricity?

[@SAsgarters]

Stephen Bagnell Sure, and each of the applications for electricity would count as inventions. Electricity itself, not so much. It was around before we harnessed it.

[@Mini_Squatch]

JellybellyWaffles um yes and no. energy cannot be created nor destroyed, only transferred. So we can't make electricity, but we can generate it by converting a different form of energy into electricity,

[@smiley1716]

SAsgarters All of these inventions did not spring out of nothing. The compass uses the earths magnetic field to point North. But according to your logic it doesn't count as an invention since the magnetic field was always around. Our ability to understand the laws of physics and apply it to our everyday lives deserves recognition

[@emilywalsh1367]

Brooklyn and Bailey at 4:41??

[@DivineTranquillity]

I scoured the comments quickly and noticed that not a single person has pointed out what I believe to be one of the greatest inventions. Clothes... Without clothes, there are entire countries/continents we wouldn't be able to survive in. Without clothes (gear included) we would have never reached the bottom of the ocean and never have landed on the moon. Entire wars would have also been changed too, because armor wouldn't have existed.

[@zaibartdp]

And we haven't actually reached the bottom of the ocean, but i get your meaning. Deep sea diving and such. Maybe the invention of clothing was too obvious to get into a top 10 list.Starting with putting furs on our backs we would have created clothes one way or another. Maybe...

[@DivineTranquillity]

I believe there have actually been a few people to have reached the Mariana Trench (deepest part of the ocean), James Cameron included.

[@WatchMojo]

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[@DrSevenfold666]

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[@truxonisi]

Oh Dios mío, escribió en español!!! I love you more! Cheers!

[@FrameInAFrame]

***** Somos pocos

[@truxonisi]

guillermo rivas Que raro, ahora está en inglés :c Sí, somos pocos los que hablan español en estos videos.

[@josearellano203]

I love this list. It's so important to have these inventions to live better. We get to enjoy modern technology thanks to these. I want the whole world to have electricity, plumbing, medicine and refrigeration. It's why I am so blessed and don't complain about not having stuff. I want to live to be 120 years old, and I turn 31 in August. Let's keep advancing medicine, science and technology to live longer and better. I am also lucky to be in the United States with this stuff available for everyone. Johann Gutenberg is considered the most influential person of the second millennium according to biography of the millennium by A&E. The internet is definitely a wonderful invention too.

[@andrewhallmark3931]

Yes, refrigeration was undoubtedly one of our most important technological leaps. For those that get the reference, "Ice is civilization!"

[@joseph-ge5om]

Invented by an englishman

[@HeroTheyCallMe]

If plumbing didn't exist we would all be more full of shit than we are right now

[@imnotaweeb2943]

quote of the day xD

[@CredowXD]

quote of the century xD

[@CredowXD]

@@imnotaweeb2943 are you still active bro?

[@techguru5427]

60% comments are about "Electricity is not an invention" 30% comments are about "Paper is greater than printing press" 10% comments are about "Slice bread should be on first place"

[@Mastermind12358]

Was electricity invented? wasn't it rather discovered? I guess you could say that we invented the technology to use electricity.

[@EricAurumSkagg]

The Wheel? Pffff. The guy who invented the SECOND wheel is the genius. Ever seen a guy riding a unicycle? Ridiculous.

[@Popp1092]

First wheel is way overrated.

[@SolarWindsRider]

Interesting thought. Makes much sense actually )

[@roodfooddoods]

james harold wilson discovered the unicycle - and marshmallows

[@nhanhnguyen3542]

We use this video in a lot of our Design Thinking 101 training workshops.

[@BZLentertainment]

Dear Future Generation, Don't ever take these gifts for granted! War makes us monsters, only ideas can make us humans.

[@chocoleeknow]

Thank you!

[@TheOfficialSK3X]

penicillin and steam engines, tvs and telephones, first brought to you by scottish peopl

[@zhewu152]

Thank you. I first learned that these were Scottish inventions

[@tuckerlivingston]

10, language 9. sports 8. music 7. clocks 6. video games 5. planes 4. money 3. chocolate 2. computers 1. internet 0. sarcasm

[@heydude76]

tesla is soooo under rated

[@ijulesy]

+heydude76 na

[@richardross1754]

+heydude76 For awhile he was but now he has made a comeback, I think he has his own list now actually.

[@lanefunai4714]

heydude76 No, he isn't. He is well known and respected in the scientific community and is beloved in pop culture.

[@LuisPenaEmpreendedorDigital]

So true. Love this fucking guy. Thanks for basically all our technology, mr tesla

[@rmanS2C]

Who’s Tesla?

[@coffeesloth5385]

None of the inventions there, except the wheel, could have been created if not for the written word. Writing is, in my opinion, the most important invention in history.

[@WilliamDearthwd]

4:53 Uncle Fester (Jackie Coogan): I showed him how to make just the right combination of sulfur, charcoal, and saltpeter. Makes wonderful fudge! Gomez Addams (John Astin): Fudge? That makes gunpowder! Fester: Oh, don't be ridiculous! *an explosion is heard from upstairs* 🤨 I could have sworn it made fudge!

[@TheEnergeticPanda]

I'd say agriculture should be No.1 since we wouldn't be here without it

[@owarida6241]

I'd say spear coz that's what separate our ancestors from being a prey and a predator in the wild and gave them the edge way before civilization began.

[@Slagterfar]

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[@Slagterfar]

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[@Mt_Vesuvius]

best invention ever: something that can clean the INSIDE of your straws decently.

[@douglasaranda2010]

So bad the world didn't like Tesla's ideas, we would have so much more!

[@FredericoASousa]

yea... if only he wasnt so shy and modest, he would have advirtised his ideas and we would have much more evolved world

[@douglasaranda2010]

True... True...

[@waldmann007]

Transistor should be on this list for sure.

[@marguskiis7711]

Guttenberg did NOT "popularize" printing, he invented the moving types HIMSELF. It is a very spread misinformation that Guttenberg just used some "chinese" invention. In China they used woodcut technology but woodcut was invented in several places including on Europe. John Guttenberg did not know anything about chinese printing and woodcut was widely used in Europe even before Guttenberg (to produce the playing cards) . Guttenberg was an German engineer and souvenire businessman who was working on production similar one type things in large numbers. His business partners knew that book business was a growing market and suggested him to work out method how to produce huge amount of books with cheap costs. And Guttenberg engineered the method.

[@pacificalliance3782]

margus kiis Chinese invented woodcut. It spread to Europe before Guttenberg was born so he got his ideas from them. Much more simple when you don't glorify the west.

[@djperryboy]

His name is not John Guttenberg it is Johannes Gutenberg! And he invented the metod of printing BOOKS!

[@Чулпан-ч8й]

@@djperryboy no hes name is Gluten Berg

[@SchwanzdesWolf]

Time is a pretty important invention, as it is arguably a concept/invention and not actually a natural term....

[@jordanwilliams9430]

I wouldn't say time was an invention

[@roodfooddoods]

is irrelevant

[@anelisesantos4791]

For me, the most important invention is paper because really I love to write and I can only memorize things (like school content) if I write them on paper. Another reason is: I love to read books, but I can only read physical ones, printed on paper and not digital books.

[@Ryan-Diez]

odd reasons but fair enough pick

[@АмирВахобов-р3к]

In addition , also first papers was invented In ancient Samarkhand Uzbekistan BCE

[@Chivi-chivik]

Paper should be WAY higher on the list (Printing better than paper? Seriously? WTF?!). Also, Graham Bell didn't invent the telephone, he just got the patent of it. He became renowned at the expense of another one.

[@LoboTechnodruid]

This summer, here in Brazil, I would say Air Conditioning. Puns apart, one of the best lists i've seen here.

[@x1z37]

WE DIDNT EVEN INVENT ELECTRICITY WE JUST FOUND A WAY TO USE IT

[@Apis4]

I think WatchMojo should revisit this one. I know it's new, but it really needs to be redone. 1) THE most singularly IMPORTANT invention in HUMAN HISTORY is was... THIS... WRITING. The progression from art, to pictographic depictions, and finally, to rudimentary symbols directly transcribing spoken language in to 'written' symbolic form, fundamentally changed the course of humanity irreversibly. If we want any proof of this, all we need look at is the prolific growth of monotheism. But even if remain secular, let us take three examples. The Elements: Euclid. The seminal texts on Geometry, which, in turn allowed architecture, design, engineering all to be more easily pursued and taught, and has taught the basics of one of the main schools of mathematics to students continuously, as it's been in publication continuously, allowed to be taught, gave a means, for over TWO MILLENIA. The Compendious Book on Calculation by Completion and Balancing: AKA The Compendium: Muhammad Al-Khwarizmi: The first comprehensive work of modern mathematics, and manner of pursuit of Mathematical study, which gave us the basic building block of modern math.. Indian Numerals ... erroneously referred to as 'Arabic Numerals'. These numerals, simplified, and including a revolutionary concept.. zero... allowed for the expansion, proliferation, and further development another form of writing.. an essential one.. mathematics, as we know it today. Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica: AKA The Principia: Isaac Newton. The most important books in the history of science, and possibly human history. If in doubt of this claim, a simple experiment shall covert the disbeliever. Take any three scientific books written after the publications of the Books of the Principia. Open the Index. Note the names and works referenced. Note the number of times referenced. If you do not find Newton, and the Principia, referenced more than any other scientist or works, as much as thrice the citations, across any three publications examined, put down the Dr Sues books, and, as directed in step one, replace with scientific ones. It has been, rightly, I feel, claimed by numerous historians and scientists, human existence, was virtually the same a century before Newton and his most famous works, as it was a millennia before. But, the world in centuries following, was changed beyond all recognition. This is perhaps all the proof you need, to the importance of these works. These three objects changed the course of human history more than any other creations of man, including the Bible. What are they? BOOKS. What is ESSENTIAL for a book? WRITING! Writing is the singular most critical and important invention in human history. Case Closed. 2) What was a common theme of all three books mentioned above? MATHEMATICS. NOTHING on your list, was possible, without depending in some way or measure, to lesser or greater extent on Mathematics. In fact, the only reason Mathematics isn't the single most important human invention by light-years is that without a mode and means of expression, in this case, writing, it was much more limited in it's capacity to impact the world... relying on props like Abacus, or retained within the Mathematician's head via oral education, in conjunction with props and calculating aids. The world as we know it, is essentially, writing... and MATHS. 3) Glass: Yes, GLASS. Whilst it's nice to see you thought about the list, and included such honorable mentions as contact lenses and Cameras, both require, a Lens. A lens requires a suitable material, the most suitable, evidenced by it's use even today is GLASS. When the Ancient Egyptians created glass.. they gave humanity one of it's most world changing inventions. Because come the late middle ages, when the hunt was on for a suitable substance to produce more efficiently and cheaply, not mention more inert, made vessels, than the clay, wood, and metal vessels on which civilizations around the world had depended for centuries, if not millennia (unless you where China, which had, wait for it, China.. and thus never cottoned on to glass), glass made the short list, and soon showed it mettle. The moment glass vessels began to proliferate through Europe, they soon highlighted the magnification and optical properties of the material to keen minds. These minds in turn, began to experiment, and, created Lenses. Lenses allowed us three major achievements which fundamentally changed the world. Firstly the could be made to look at the micro. This allowed breakthroughs in chemistry, biology, medicine, natural sciences and anatomy which were unimaginable before their creation, in fact had the third biggest impact on these fields, after writing and math. Secondly, they allowed us to make lenses to study the macro. Which allowed developments astronomy, physics, cartography and geography to increase almost exponentially, in fact, exceeded only by, again, writing and math. And thirdly, perhaps some what over looked... it allowed for magnifying spectacles to be made. This allowed people MAKING these amazing works and contributions to science, technology, engineering and academia of all kinds to overcome natural visual degeneration, and continue to work, for years, and indeed, decades more. Additionally, Glass gave science something it essentially needs... a transparent, and thus observable, yet inert, and thus safe, material to conduct experiments, hold samples, filter liquids, and gases, well more importantly, a material which has such properties, which cheap to make from readily available ingredients. Any doubt about how significant Glass is to human advancement? Go to any science school or laboratory on the planet, and have a look around, try to count how many glass objects there are. 4) Metallurgy. Ore mining and Smithing, included, the discovery of Metal, and more so, the ability to blend them in to alloys ( i.e. bronze age) is the most important prehistoric discovery made by man, the most basic forms of mining surface metals may even predate writing.. and it changed the world for ever. Perhaps not as important as the other three, because things of stone and wood and other material, could suffice for many things metals are used for today, never the less, even excluding the obvious military applications... the medical, scientific and technological significance of metal in our modern world is undeniable, and from sanitary inert medical tools, to art via musical instruments and sculpture, to the most taken for granted everyday items like phones and refrigerators it changed the world. More importantly, most of the inventions on this list, including your selection for top spot, would be impossible without it. These are all 'Inventions' they didn't just happen.. they were created.. some one 'invented' writing. Some one took 'counting' and with this new thing called writing, created math. Same for metallurgy and glass. They didn't just happen.. some one some where began experimenting with base ores, to make alloys, discovered, through experimentation, this thing called glass (well perhaps not so called at its inception, but you get the point). They all changed the world far more than any invention on this list.

[@samsmith6594]

Fire, allowing for cooking of meat, facilitated the evolutionary changes to our brains that allowed us to write.

[@Apis4]

Sam Smith Fire was a natural occurrence. Fire was stolen from the world, via branch, placed in a burning tree or shrub, after lightning... it wasn't really an 'Invention" . I am sure someone some where once struck flint with stone tool, and saw sparks like lightning ... someone some place perhaps noted the effect of friction to transmit heat which might bring fire in some other place.. but that was not fire. Though I grant you, the ability to make fire.... so the fire trough, or flint, have to be right up there, yes. Maybe #5 ... though once we ate raw meat, and it had the same effect...prehistoric homo erectus ate meat raw, but this had the same effect you outline above.

[@roodfooddoods]

@@samsmith6594 i was thinking fire all along.... i agree, without the power to harness fire we would all still be living on the savannas of Africa, maybe. The power to control fire (our best friend yet our oldest enemy) has done more to advance humans than anything else. period... .

[@roodfooddoods]

@@Apis4 yes fire is first and foremost our biggest asset - yet our eternal and oldest constant foe - life is a paradox whichever way you look at it...

[@Apis4]

@@roodfooddoods Fire was not 'Invented' by man, just harnessed.... my list is limited to only 'Inventions". Fire existed, in nature. Writing, Mathematics, Glass and Worked Metal do NOT (yes ores exist, but you cannot just get them from the earth and have a dagger instantly, or a plate, you CAN hold kindling to naturally ignited fire, say from fumes from vegetable matter igniting in extreme heat, or lightning strike, and have fire). This is a list of 'Inventions'

[@TokoGT]

Electricity isn't an invention. Its a discovery though. Still think the smartphone is the #1 invention and has changed the way we communicate forever.

[@roostewrum]

1. Fire - Cooked food allows us to eat required calories in a shorted time. 2. Irrigated agriculture - people could produce far more food which lead to a population boom. Extra people meant specialisation 3. Wheel 4. Domesticated animals - food, leather, transport, heavy agricultural work 5. Metallurgy - copper, tin, iron for tools and weapons, gold and silver for currency.

[@JuniorBlitz]

Fire is not even an invention, it's just a type of nature. Animals were also nature, people didn't create them.

[@roostewrum]

***** The means to generate a fire at will was an invention. Cooking food was a game changed that came about due to the invention of a means to create fire.

[@JuniorBlitz]

+roostewrum Oh yeah, your right.

[@blair1195]

All of them exept the wheel is a discovery

[@ASCG5000]

Two things, first of all i think Gunpowder should of been on the list instead of an honorable mention. Second of all Thomas Edison a innovator? I think not.

[@alecschaefer443]

I agree with that from what my understanding is that Tomas Edison paid off the patener for another guys paten of the telephone I forget who he was

[@1024BenZ]

Agreed, gunpowder had a HUGE impact on history, as soon as handheld guns came along they basically made all former weapons obsolete in warfare. Edison was known by people who worked with as more of a thief of ideas than an inventor. Apparently, he basically ran sweatshop-like think tanks then slapped his name on all of the good ideas.

[@craze1701]

1024BenZ Your description of Edison sounds like Steve Jobs, LOL.

[@1024BenZ]

Lol hmm, coincidence or sound business plan?

[@alecschaefer443]

craze1701 steve jobs never stole anything actually Bill Gates stole a lot including Windows os from Steve Jobs now is products are way over priced for getting the same shit year after year but his ideas where all original to start

[@storytellerjack22]

Soap: the yardstick of civilization.

[@scarecrow3295]

Nobody ever made something that prevents you from stepping on legos

[@tonyspaghetti.4893]

Extrelity Eppz It's called COMMON SENSE.

[@unknownstudd69]

what about Clock?...knowing time is important

[@roodfooddoods]

Galileo Galileo - no we will not let you go...

[@plung3r]

Time was already known by observing the sun

[@redneck6980]

Boo Yaa Productions LET HIM GO

[@CassesVultus]

Writing should be #1.

[@fatimawithnature6904]

10: paper 9:the compass 8:refrigeration 7:the printing press 6:palaming 5:penicillin 4:engine 3:wheel 2:telephone/radio 1:Electricity

[@rohitn2462]

anybodys teacher gave them an assignment on this?

[@CidGuerreiro1234]

I'm the teacher!

[@iRushil]

I don't know if it would fit on the list. Probably not. But one of my favourite inventions is the bicycle. For its simplicity and incredible efficiency!

[@Mathias949]

A bicycle also carries a Wheel, so it's under that category, in my eyes anyway :)

[@iRushil]

Mathias949 Yeah I thought so too.

[@ziwconawalean7070]

Tesla invented radio, Markoni stole the patent ....

[@davidreruk3924]

You forgot Mathematic, without this important language, we would have nothing of these points

[@DavidvdGulik]

true, but we're not sure if mathematics is an invention or a discovery. It might be a universal constant, a sort of necessity of the universe, instead of a way we invented to describe and predict things about the universe we live in. Also, practically everything on this list would've been invented without mathematics, including the lightbulb (the more I learn about him the more I thing Edison was just a stubborn lucky idiot)

[@davidreruk3924]

Mathematics a discovery, because it is the Theory of for example geometric figures(sorry, I'm a german), which are in this perfect form not naturally, so sombody had to found it.

[@ABQSentinel]

Gunpowder shaped the world and it's relegated to an honorable mention?! Who the heII puts these together anyway?!

[@henrybird26]

We didn’t invent it we discovered it electricity.

[@TheKumarImpressions]

It came from Europe and America

[@NewDawnFades1405]

remember watching this at school when we was learning about inventions lol...☺

[@johntitor2097]

lol

[@aliyanraza5606]

It’s not funny

[@vae0116]

Quien está aquí por el trabajo de Inglés jaja ?

[@zowlow9802]

lol yo xdd

[@valeriedavidson2785]

The computer was invented by Babbage in England.

[@nikolatesla7356]

At last! Someone understands the greatness of Nikola Tesla! :')

[@carolinamoura7508]

I agree

[@bibleanddisneyfan]

Nice list! I know I couldn't live without medication. I have a seizure disorder which, thank God, is controlled by medication. Probably wouldn't be here without it! Haven't had a seizure in 4 years!!

[@matthewhurley2429]

Cameras and video cameras should for sure be on this list

[@330MillionGods]

contact lenses do not deserve the mention.

[@athirkell]

It didn't say contact lenses, it said *optical lenses* - they're used in contact lenses and glasses, yes, but also in magnifying glasses, binoculars, telescopes, cameras, lasers, and many many many other things. Definitely worth a mention!

[@nik1614]

Electricity is not an invention but a discovery, please...

[@colliric]

Conrad invented the Digital Computer, but he did not invent the Computer itself.

[@ruzphi]

Archery is considerd by many to be the 3rd most important invention, speech and the alphabet bieng in place 1 and 2. Archery was the first use of harnessed energy, and the abilty to project a missile faster and further than muscle power alone. Bows also increased the killng power of hunters, allowing the succesful killing of larger game.

[@orac229]

I think speech is something that has evolved rather than invented by anyone but agree about the bow. Wars would still have been waged with or without gunpowder so agree with it not making the list.

[@ruzphi]

***** I agree, after the nomadic hunter , gatherer life was turned into an argicultural society the game changed. Hunters were still employed and badly needed, but were now called soldiers.

[@ruzphi]

orac229 Good point, but the rules for speech although evolved, were actually laid down in each language by someone. Look at the Kalahari Pygmies, they have grunts and clicking noises.

[@henreybradley3561]

1:10 "William Cullen at the University of Glasgow demonstrated the first artificial refrigeration system in the year 1748"

[@teddymills1]

KZbin must be the best invention of all time. Imagine the entire planet can share all the knowledge and info with everyone else. Pictures, videos, Memories and anything else you can imagine. I sure hope someone is backing this stuff up or keeping copies in a mountain or mine.

[@lindavilmaole5003]

paper, compass, refrigeration, printing press, plumbing, medicine, engines, wheel, communications, PRODUCTION OF ELECTRICITY.

[@adamirfan6986]

clock also

[@nadogi]

Agriculture? You left out agriculture? None of the inventions you mentioned above would have been possible without agriculture. Without the invention of farming there would be... No permanent settlements (

[@JaneDoe-mf5ck]

yeah, but those arent flashy and cool

[@JaneDoe-mf5ck]

Then we can say that magnetism for compases are bound to be discovered

[@InvisiMan2006]

If you want to get technical, the spear would have been a more significant invention.

[@nadogi]

***** There's nothing to indicate that agriculture was "bound" to be discovered. Plenty societies never developed it on their own.

[@nadogi]

InvisiMan2006 You could argue that. However, I'd say unlike the spear, the examples I gave have remained an important part of civilization up until the present day. Modern societies still rely heavily on farming, matallurgy and writing in order to function on a day to day basis. Spears and arrows have become pretty obsolete.

[@abrahamchaudhary6276]

Thanks for the informations.

[@vicentecontrerassoux1660]

paper should rank higher

[@Darkholecheck]

This episode seemed so rushed.

[@spiritualityanimals3760]

You missed the real # 1: language, excluded glasses while listing contacts, and forgot clothes, shoes and cooking items.

[@MAMAsb0y]

What about sliced bread!?

[@thiccbonkus]

Forget bread! What about duct tape?!

[@roodfooddoods]

@@thiccbonkus i thought it was duck tape mate ?

[@someone123idk2]

@@roodfooddoods no

[@someone123idk2]

@@roodfooddoods its duct tape

[@santaralle4598]

why the hell is pornography not on this list?!

[@SensicalOxymoron]

I would question the sanity of whoever doesn't upvote this comment.

[@abdulazizalmogahed5212]

Video Order : 1) Electricity 2) Communication 3) The Wheel 4) Engines 5) Medicine 6) Plumbing 7) The Printing Press 8) Refrigeration 9) The Compass 10) Paper My Order : 1) The Wheel 2) Engines 3) Electricity 4) Medicine 5) Communication 6) Paper 7) The Printing Press 8) Plumbing 9) Refrigeration 10) The Compass

[@spluff5]

Electricity is NOT an invention, it's a discovery. Number 1 should be something like the electric generator or electric wires.

[@MineKynoMine]

no liverwurst!

[@ThomasThePwnadin]

I would assume by electricity they mean all the stuff that came from the discovery and enhancement of that discovery.

[@benjaminadler2001]

I'm kind of stumped as to why agriculture, farming, animal domestication, irrigation and those kinds of things aren't on there. Without them, none of these 10 wouldve happened.

[@user-ky6vw5up9m]

Agreed Too much tech reliance the basics forgotten by most.

[@jamesdep8128]

The chisel, the gun, ships, the airplane

[@Nejifangal1]

As a history major, I love the list. However, we only harnessed electricity thanks to Ben Franklin and we used it to create light bulbs and whatnot. I'm surprised, too, that the clock was not on here. The clock allowed us to actually harness time into days and hours, and no longer were humans dependent on seasonal changes, sunrise and sunset to know when to get up and go to sleep.

[@alfredestrada2729]

Electricity Michael faraday or Benjamin Franklin

[@GuiltyGearRockYou]

Electricity is not an invention... it was always there, but all the things which controls the electricity and make wise use of it are inventions =)

[@szymusiek1980]

Electricity IS an invention, as same as fire is. Natural electricity and generated electricity are not the same things. We invented a generated electricity with no regard to the lightning bolts

[@GuiltyGearRockYou]

szymusiek1980 I know what you mean, but electricity and fire are not inventions to me, but a zippo or a battery are :P

[@szymusiek1980]

Melodic Guitar Rock/Metal GuiltyGearRockYou only because electricity and fire are immaterial things? You call an inventions the material things only?

[@GuiltyGearRockYou]

nop, but physical and chemical events like electricity and fire are discoveries and not inventions, or I say everything that also exists before the human being, can't be an invention by us... or I'm wrong?

[@szymusiek1980]

Melodic Guitar Rock/Metal GuiltyGearRockYou if everything which also exists before the human being is not an inventions, then also a fridge is not an invention. After all, the natural ice-boxes existed long before the human - at the time of winter; in Greenland, in the Arctic...

[@queency__]

shout out h11a !!!!! 🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@SWellusionist]

The wheel should be no1 because the wheel helps generate electricity

[@timmyvdb3]

video games schould be a honorable mention.

[@zachary_capalot8377]

Tim van der Beek it really shouldn’t

[@mauriziodanielemutti7874]

Bell didn't invented the telephone , Meucci did