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This is so true! Genache your ten items come a close second! |
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 joe9  28 Aug 2008 18:53
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I agree with Grenache however ultimately we need to have records of what goes on all around us all
of the time.
This has been done on cave walls, tablets and Cathedral ceilings, paintings and posters, and is an
enduring archival narrative.
Without the printing press there would be no practical way of recording the workings of all those
wonderful things we build. Including the buildings we keep them in. |
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Before the plough, there was nothing.
The plough meant organized farming and an end to nomadic lifestyles, and thus towns arose. It meant
an increased food supply, which in turn enabled people to do things other than gathering food -
artisans, craftsmen, and other non-food related work, as well as the domestication of animals.
Managing fields meant inventing and learning irrigation and geometry, and with the new concept of
property, ownership demanded written language. And to manage it all, chieftains became government,
no longer a single individual to make decisions but a hierarchy. Social structures and laws greater
than justice meted out around a fire became necessary, creating societies and nations, no longer
just tribes.
Everything you know exists because of the plough. Without it, I would likely be worshipping stones
in England and you doing the same somewhere else, depending on your ethnicity. If you are of mixed
ethnicity, you probably wouldn't exist at all given that at the time people would not travel more
than a few kilometres in their entire lives. |
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 K9 05 Oct 2008 10:20
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The wheel, the plow, aquaducts, baths, most medical inventions, Irrigation systems, air planes,
automobiles, and so much more beat printing press. |
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I have tremendous respect for what the printing-press accomplished so by voting "against" I'm really
not attacking the printing press. My issue is with "greatest historical invention of all time".
Consider a few alternatives for "greatest":
1) Water technologies - the well, pumps, pipes, means to store it, etc. 2) Sewers. 3) Electricity.
4) Computers. 5) Weaving, fabrics, shoes. 6) Houses. 7) Cooking stoves and pots. 8) Clocks and
watches. 9) Calendars. 10) Videogames (joking). |
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