What in your consideration is man's SINGLE greatest 'invention' or 'discovery' ever (here I am using invention and discovery interchangeably). Some hints below. ONLY 1 ANSWER, WITH THE REASON FOR YOUR CHOICE
1. How to produce food (Agriculture)
2. Religion
3. Racism
4. Genes and gene functions
5. Airplanes
6. Internet
7. Photography
8. Video(graphy)
9. Sex
10. Medicine
11. Electricity
12. Discovery of America by Christopher Columbus
13. Philosophy
14. Guns and related munitions
15. Telephone

Either....

ELECTRICITY by Thomas Edison
TELEPHONE by Alexander Graham Bell

Electricity.

Electricity....For it is the mother of almost every other invention.

I just remember an article on punch newspaper years back " Get inspired by love " about Graham Bell and his wife with hearing disability.

Love is a wonderful thing.

MrBrownJay1:
Either....

ELECTRICITY by Thomas Edison
TELEPHONE by Alexander Graham Bell

MrBrownJay1:
Either....
ELECTRICITY by Thomas Edison TELEPHONE by Alexander Graham Bell

Really So this is greater than agriculture,philosophy or medicine ~150 years old discoveries.

tartar9:

Really
So this is greater than agriculture,philosophy or medicine
~150 years old discoveries.

Yes I do believe that electricity and telephone is man's greatest invention... well above agriculture (which i dont think it is man's invention) or medicine (especially when men used to live much longer before)

The Wheel is the greatest invention ever!!!!


it had a fundamental impact on transport and later on agriculture and industry.

fire and electricity

Computer by Charles Babbage

MrBrownJay1:


Yes I do believe that electricity and telephone is man's greatest invention... well above agriculture (which i dont think it is man's invention) or medicine (especially when men used to live much longer before)

Electricity & telephone?? Well mayb interms if it’s usefulness but we could actually live without this two inventions..yes life may be a bit difficult... but we won’t really know it as difficult cos we’ve been visiting each other unannounced and writting letters to communicate...life went on just fine

U know what I feel it is... it’s quite funny, but I think the greatest and most important discovery is sex...
if man ddnt decipher quickly that the pen!s has to enter the hole btw the legs and mad had to pour the fluid in there..we would have gone extinct and every other invention wouldn’t have come into existence at all

SPEECH


The first words by humans were spoken by Africans.

''Using statistical methods to estimate the time required to achieve the current spread and diversity in modern languages today, Johanna Nichols — a linguist at the University of California, Berkeley — argues that vocal language must have arisen in our species at least 100,000 years ago. Using phonemic diversity, a more recent analysis offers directly linguistic support for a similar date. Estimates of this kind are independently supported by genetic, archaeological, palaeontological and much other evidence suggesting that language probably emerged somewhere in sub-Saharan Africa during the Middle Stone Age, roughly contemporaneous with the speciation of Homo sapiens.''


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_of_language


So BEFORE AFRICANS INVENTED SPEECH, the rest of the world was communicating via grunts, cries and screams.

Credit goes to Africans for this MOST IMPORTANT BY FAR human invention which led to our civilization.





WRITING

The SECOND most important human invention was WRITING, for which credit also goes to AFRICANS.

In 1999, Archaeology Magazine reported that the earliest Egyptian hieroglyphs date back to 3400 BCE which "...challenge the commonly held belief that early logographs, pictographic symbols representing a specific place, object, or quantity, first evolved into more complex phonetic symbols in Mesopotamia."

Who were these original Egyptians?

The ancient Greek historian Herodotus.. described the Colchians of the Black Sea shores as "Egyptians by race" and pointed out they had "black skins and kinky hair."

Apollodorus, the Greek philosopher, described Egypt as "the country of the black-footed ones" and the Latin historian Ammianus Marcellinus said "the men of Egypt are mostly brown or black with a skinny desiccated look."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/specials/1624_story_of_africa/page88.shtml

In his book 'Egypt', British scholar Sir E.A. Wallis Budge says: "The prehistoric native of Egypt, both in the old and in the new Stone Ages, was African and there is every reason for saying that the earliest settlers came from the South." He further states: "There are many things in the manners and customs and religions of the historic Egyptians that suggests that the original home of their prehistoric ancestors was in a country in the neighborhood of Uganda and Punt [present day Somalia]."

''Greek historian Diodorus Siculus devoted an entire chapter of his world history, the Bibliotheke Historica, or Library of History (Book 3), to the Kushites ["Aithiopians"] of Meroe. Here he repeats the story of their great piety, their high favor with the gods, and adds the fascinating legend that they were.. the founders of Egyptian civilization, invented writing, and had given the Egyptians their religion and culture.''

(1st century B.C., Diodorus Siculus of Sicily, Greek historian and contemporary of Caesar Augustus, Universal History Book III. 2. 4-3. 3)

http://wysinger.homestead.com/blackegypt101.html

Sex cannot possibly be an invention or discovery

1StopRudeness:


Electricity & telephone?? Well mayb interms if it’s usefulness but we could actually live without this two inventions..yes life may be a bit difficult... but we won’t really know it as difficult cos we’ve been visiting each other unannounced and writting letters to communicate...life went on just fine

but one of the reason why our lives are so much better today is in no doubt thanks to ELECTRICITY... we've advanced so much in time thanks to that single invention.

I could look down and say the same thing about agriculture etc that we had a great life eating fruits from trees that we could live without agriculture. Trees/fruits and vegetables were here before mankind.

U know what I feel it is... it’s quite funny, but I think the greatest and most important discovery is sex...
if man ddnt decipher quickly that the pen!s has to enter the hole btw the legs and mad had to pour the fluid in there..we would have gone extinct and every other invention wouldn’t have come into existence at all

But the 1st human being could do it with no help from anybody...just like animals knows how to reproduce with no sex education whatsoever. How can you view sex as man's invention? To me, sex is like walking, anybody can do it with no help whatsoever.

FarahAideed:
Sex cannot possibly be an invention or discovery

Sex is a discovery. Recall Adam and Eve

Sliced Bread

MylezKayn:
Sliced Bread

Really?

Electricity is bae..

Fire

AAEEI:


Really?

LOL. That was on a lighter note. I'll pick Electricity. Our entire modern civilisation is built on electricity

QUANTUM MECHANICS.

RELATIVITY PRINCIPLES.

If you know you know.

Airplane Biko.

Mathematics

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Sex is a discovery. Recall Adam and Eve[/quote

Sex is not a discovery. It is instinctual. Before we became Bolo sapiens, we had been having sex.

Man's greatest discovery was agruculture; the cultivation of crops and reading of Animals. It enabled us live a sedentary life upon which all our other inventions came from.

Camera is man's greatest invention in my opinion.
The opportunity to capture moments, its like stopping time .

Sex, pls don't tell me that it is not an invention.
Sex is the greatest cos it has been able to control virtually every corner of our present Nigerian youths brain.
Ranging from BBN, to instagrm to Facebook it has been a site for our ladies to show their sexual appeal.

AAEEI:

Sex is a discovery. Recall Adam and Eve

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Those two Criminals.

MylezKayn:
Sliced Bread

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Stomach Infrastructure. Oga Fayiose. Ruga Rice Biz.

An illusion called " TIME "

Those who are still on bed might say those who hare online this time are jobless, but are they sure they are in the same time zone with majority of them?

AAEEI:

Really?

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Not serious.

Genius100:
Fire

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Sango.