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! Message: 2 Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2008 06:29:54 -0700 From: "Ali, Saqib" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [FDE] Invention, innovation, and process improvement. To: [email protected] Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 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?!) ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ FDE mailing list [email protected] http://www.xml-dev.com/mailman/listinfo/fde End of FDE Digest, Vol 19, Issue 9 **********************************
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