There are many, of course.

I was just thinking of the printing press. That was a changer.

Your ideas?

The *one* invention that truly changed the world was the threaded rod. The first example of it was Archimedes' screw. But it was a long time before people realized that it could be used on machinery to convert circular motion into linear motion.

That made the lathe and the milling machine possible.

No lathe, no milling machine,.....no industrial revolution.

Women and negros, are pretty much tied for inventions. The Jews have the most by far.

Gunpowder

The printing press was operated by a threaded rod.

Electricity...

Cotton mill.

Tampon

Bristol brought up a good point. They are few basic machines.

The more complex machines combine functions of most all basics.

Calculators
Computers
Pocket Pussy
Automobile

Porn mags

Printing press

The wheel

Not the world, but a very wise man (now deceased) once told me that, “TV ruined America”....

The personal computer tied to the internet.

Ink

Baby wipes. Indispensable when in the field.

The stirrups.

Beer

You old gynecologist you.

Early in the beginning sometime moonshine and beer.

Rubbers!!!

THIS

The Atomic Bomb

Not an invention in itself but ways to use it - electricity. Our lives revolve around it. Nothing runs without it.

the screw propellor

Lighting

Refrigeration

Antibiotics

The development of agriculture is actually a combination of several innovations, but agriculture revolutionised the world so dramatically that no other invention even comes close to matching the same kind of effect on the lives of humans.

Others that come close include the discovery of microbiology, and the associated development of antibiotics and childhood inoculations, the realization that cleanliness promotes good health and the widespread use of hand soap.

The widespread use of beds also rates high because before that most people slept on pallets on the cold ground and died from pneumonia as a result. During the American War of Northern Aggression, more people died from pneumonia than died from battlefield wounds.

The ice box and later the refrigerator

Food could now be stored and you didn't have to go hunting and gathering all the time.
More free time meant more time for other things like development of language and writing.

Baseball Cap.

Look how many people worldwide wear one now for standard headgear.

Ground glass lenses. Brought sight to many virtually blind, and allowed discovery of the universe.

Not quite up there with Arabic numerals and written language, but close.

Steel.

electricity is not an invention , it's a discovery.

Since seed and chemical companies started giving them to farmers, the rate of skin cancer among farmers soared. Caps were a negative invention, not a positive one.

The internal combustion engine and the electric motor both accelerated change.

Steel

It took a long time for that invention to be appreciated. A young Roman was tasked with draining some marches. He did it in record time. When asked how he had done that, he explained that he had used a screw of Archimedes. The emperor rewarded him with a sack of gold but ordered his machine destroyed. It seems the slaves were complaining that it had put them out of their work (which had been carrying buckets of water up a hill and dumping them on the other side).

Another invention that was not appreciated was the steam engine, invented by Heron of Alexandria about two thousand years ago. He used it as entertainment at parties and perhaps for opening the temple doors. but it died with him, thus delaying the industrial revolution more than 1000 years.

Finally we have Hiram Maxim's machine gun. the US Army wanted no part of it so he took it to Europe. Despite using it to mow down natives in their colonies, England and France wanted no part of it for modern warfare. They could not understand its purpose. The Germans could. The machine gun made attacks against trenches even more impossible than during the US Civil War.

Speaking of rapid fire, there was the revolver. The oldest one I actually saw was a cannon, firing "bullets" about two inches in diameter, dating from the 1400s. It had two separate cylinders. One was for round bullets and the other was for square bullets. You were supposed to use the round bullets against Christians and the square bullets against Moslems. Problems might arise because the barrel only had a round bore.

^^^This^^^

You beat me by a minute on this one.

The Mouse Trap.

And to think that people are still trying to reinvent it.

Both were impossible until a long series of inventions utilizing electricity were made.

The ability to work steel and iron . The grain combine and hay baler along with refrigeration made more food easier to keep and produce.

Needle & thread; it allowed us to traverse the world, “go forth and multiply”.

Toilet paper

The transistor and integrated circuit made electronics truly portable.

Penicillin

Ask any sailor

FIRE

It's more of a discovery than an invention.

Thermocell!

I watched a documentary on the History Channel awhile back and fire was the biggest reason for advancing civilization during the early times.

Fire was used to fend off predators plus it led to the cooking of food. This allowed them to travel longer distances since the cooked food digested much quicker.

TFF

not an invention , but without Dogs human could not have survived.

https://www.quora.com/Would-humans-have-survived-without-dogs

Use of fire.

knife

spear

bow and arrow

rope

duck tape

glue

Yes, granted for sure, but they did change the world.

The block and tackle system

Yoga pants

Writing.

(honorable mention goes to the kiln and the forge)

The greatest invention ever is old pick up trucks. Chevy , Dodge or Ford , take yer pick.


Mike

ICBM

The the stirrup and the ability to ride a horse.

Reading glasses, and the printing press.

Birth Control Pills.

Midol!

LMAO!!

Are there any of these inventions by Muslims?

Cell phones...

Longer range vessels and advanced navigation/time keeping/measurement/mapping.

played a big part in how the globe was colonized by European power rivals.




except for diesel engines.



Incorrect.

I can't believe that nobody came up with the a 6.5 creed moor.

Heh, guilty!

The horse revolutionized warfare, the saddle gave more stability to fight allowing creation of more diverse weaponry but the stirrups gave the warriors ‘leverage ‘ and from this, technology accelerated.

Might want to realize that most tech items out there are based on what is known as the “mil spec”. Mil = military.

My old petroleum engineering professor used to give a 10 point bonus question with each test that he gave and most times the class needed those 10 points badly, his tests difficulty were legend and it was all or nothing for those 10 points. On one test’s bonus question he asked what was the greatest technological invention that led to further development and expansion for conquest and advancement of mankind.

I put ‘the saddle ‘. He gave me 5 points and told me that that was the first time ever that he split the bonus. I guess from that I made a half assed engineer.

Truer than most people realize.

And the pick up truck heater.

But it took a lot longer for a human (like Archimedes or was it the earlier Assyrians?) to combine the idea
of two simple machines already occurring in nature.

Algebra, the Algorithm, coffee, clocks, washing your hands before surgery, toothbrush, the crank, optics (mentioned above), the pointed arch, the windmill, Arabic numerals, and the modern checking account were all medieval Muslim inventions.

I’m thinking the computer! Without the computer, we would not have hunting/shooting websites.......where some that know nothing of firearms or hunting, can tell thousands of others how it should be done! memtb

The simple act of moving information over distance and time.
It was invented independently at least twice and maybe as much as 5 times.
WrIteing and reading

I don't know. So I will ask.

How much of that might have originated with Jewish or Christian minds living in a Muslim world?

The great library in Alexandria predates Mohamed. And apparently Arabic numerals are actually of Hindu origin.

In a nut shell the Arabs used to be smart, innovative thinkers. Talking way back in the old days.



And then they became obsessed with their religion.




Been downhill ever since.

The automobile. Before the automobile, cities smelled like barns because of the horses and other animals used for transportation. The automobile was hailed as a breakthrough for a cleaning environment.

The grist and pasteurizing.

Muslims believe in marrying their cousins. Yes, they made great inventions a thousand years ago, including, thank God, distilled al-cohol.

But centuries of inbreeding have taken their toll. What improvements have Muslims made in the past 500 years? They are sliding off in to the abyss, they are stuck back in medieval times.

Has the .270 been mentioned?

I was afraid to mention the generational inbreeding.......

The Hydrogen Airship

The Pill

Refrigeration

If only it had taken off.

It’s like German nouns.

Sounds like an 11 year old’s Christmas list.


Dear Santa,

This Christmas I would like...

Several here are still inventing it.

gin & tonic
kevlar canoe
sound recording
photography / motion picture recording
flush toilet
washing machine / dryer
self-contained metallic cartridges

Anti-monkey butt powder.

prescription opioids

So what?

When asked greatest invention of mankind? Arab said automobile. We don't have to ride and sleep with the camels anymore. Jew said nuclear fission. Just look at what we can do with all that energy. Next a Blackman was asked what greatest invention of mankind was. He said thermos bottle When asked why he said "it keeps hot things hot and cold things cold". When asked what was so great about that, he said "How do it know"? I don't know who invented thermos bottle but I would bet it wasn't Africa.

True but generating it was an invention.

The zipper and velcro. Both have exploded into millions of uses.

Electricity generation existed before man invented ways to do so.

Also true but the real invention was harnessing and using alternating current

I'm surprised no one has mentioned either the compass or the chronometer. Prior to their invention, people navigated by landmark both on land and at sea, and rarely ventured out onto the open ocean at all because there was no way to tell where you were or how to get to where you needed to go. The ability to efficiently move raw materials, finished goods, and people across oceans have dramatically changed the world--mostly for the better.

Solid state electronics.

I would have to say it is the printing press.

Mankind's accumulated knowledge could now be made available to masses of people who could benefit from it and add to it which in turn could be printed again for even more masses.

They're mostly working on spelling, grammar, and syntax.

I covered that on page three.



The God or Gods of primitive minded man were deemed to have the responsibility to create, harness and issue the first known
generated electrical power

Those entities then left it up to man to try and convert DC to AC...

The gasoline powered weed eater.

Made a better mechanic out of me. Also switched me over to roundup. miles

I don't know about "changed it" but it sure kept carpenters from ruling it.

Yeah, I've had to clean a few 1" square carburetors myself. I spray about 55 gallons mixture or roundup myself a year. Synthetic oil and exact oil mixtures help a 2 stroke. Too heavy a gas/oil mixture than recommended will gum up the atomizing screens in carburetor and cause a lot of grief.

Dickweed

Dickweed

Language/communication.

Concrete.

when the egyptians were handed that recipe it did change the vorld.

Condoms.

The internet is destroying America, making dumb people dumber by the minute, maybe the second.

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