[FDE] My list of the top thirty inventions of all time.

[Robert Jueneman]

My proposed list of the Top Thirty Inventions of All Time:

 

1.       The boat

2.       Writing, using an alphabet to represent sounds

3.       The calender

4.       The wheel

5.       Written laws

6.       Arabic numerals

7.       Steel

8.       Coins

9.       Gunpowder

10.   The mechanical clock

11.   The printing press, followed by books and newspapers

12.   The steam engine, followed by locomotives and freight/passenger
trains

13.   Canned food, followed 30 years later by the can opener

14.   The screw-cutting lathe, followed by the industrial revolution

15.   Anesthiology and antiseptic surgery

16.   The  electric generator, followed by electric motors and lighting

17.   Barbed wire fences, followd by modern animal husbandry

18.   The internal combustion engine, followed by automobiles and
airplanes

19.   The carbon granule microphone, followed by practical telephones

20.   The triode vacuum tube, followed by radio and television

21.   Penicillin, followed by other antibiotics

22.   Atomic power, followed by both good and evil

23.   The transistor, followed by microelectronics and personal
computers

24.   Geosynchronous satellites, followed by satellite broadcasting and
GPS

25.   Public key cryptography

26.   The browser, followed by the Internet

27.   Quantum computing 

28.   Teleportation 

29.   Time travel

30.   Intergalactic travel

 

Some of these still need some work!

 

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Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2008 06:29:54 -0700

From: "Ali, Saqib" <docbook.xml at gmail.com>

Subject: Re: [FDE] Invention, innovation, and process improvement.

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I know I am asking too many questions, but can you share the list of

top 10 intellectual inventions that you have in mind? The list will

help me in setting the baseline for intellectual inventions for my

presentation.

 

Thanks.

Saqib

 

>  The invention of the concept of asymmetric cryptography by Diffie,

>  Merkel and Hellman, together with its realization as a practical
scheme

>  by Rivest, Shamir, and Adleman, certainly constituted Invention with
a

>  capital I, and was perhaps one of the top 10 intellectual inventions
of

>  all time, IMHO.  (That would be an interesting list to debate,
wouldn't

>  it?!)

 

 

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