Which inventor....?

nefarious_plot · #11 (**permalink**) 08-13-2008, 01:15 PM

A patent office clerk in the 1890;s I belive swanted to close the office permently stating there was nothing more to invent.....What you have seen could never surpass what you are about to.

sachem · #12 (**permalink**) 08-13-2008, 01:53 PM

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A patent office clerk in the 1890;s I belive swanted to close the office permently stating there was nothing more to invent.....What you have seen could never surpass what you are about to.

Very nice....

Marcel Duchamp · #13 (**permalink**) 08-13-2008, 01:59 PM

I have to go with your choice. The advent of printing allowed the dissemination of information to a much greater extent than had ever been possible. It made the progress of art and science much easier and faster. It also had amazing social effects since printing could be done en masse and new political and social ideas could be widely spread.

sotmfs · #14 (**permalink**) 08-13-2008, 02:24 PM

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If you had to single out and choose one single person as the most innovative inventor who reshaped the world...who would you choose?

My choice is Johann Gutenberg. It is difficult to separate one single individual from the long list , but Gutenbergs determination to overcome the technological challenges and convince and train the artisans in his movable printing press shows his tenacity and brilliance.

It took him decades of research and constant need for capital and overcoming obstacles to invent the press which opened the world of art, literature and science to the ordinary citizen.

He really was the father of the information age in my opinion. Without access to information how would all that developed beyond it have happened?

I agree.It enabled the reformation to succeed and opened up the path to the renaissance.

rob · #15 (**permalink**) 08-13-2008, 04:21 PM

I beleive it would have to be between Bell and Ford for bettering our lives.

Lummy · #16 (**permalink**) 08-13-2008, 05:15 PM

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Well they have many to choose from, but I myself would go with Nikola Tesla. Without him we would not have the light bulb. Edison gets the credit, but he did not invent the light bulb till after he hired Tesla as his assistant.

Also, one of the most important inventions in this day and age was the assembly line. So you have to throw Ford in there, but I think the light bulb was pretty important.

This is the dumbest, most ignorant post I've seen in five minutes.

Jobs, Wozniak, Gates and the inventor of the internet are right up there, Sammy. I think they should all be stuffed and put on display in the Smithsonian while they are young and their features are still good, using that plastisizing technique they use on the Chinese negroes.

That way, in 20 years Sammy's students can take a field trip (holiday from all those too cold and too much snow to go to school days) to the nation's capital to ogle some profound nerds we murdered so kids can see them "as they really were". It would make education much more enjoyable and knowable and everything, don't you think?

Bonny Solder · #17 (**permalink**) 08-13-2008, 07:17 PM

I vote for the founder of this blessed forum.

Back Atcha · #18 (**permalink**) 08-13-2008, 08:02 PM

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Originally Posted by Bonny Solder

I vote for the founder of this blessed forum.

LOL... suck up! ...

sachem · #19 (**permalink**) 08-13-2008, 08:11 PM

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I vote for the founder of this blessed forum.

You probably are the owner of this forum.

TakuanSoho · #20 (**permalink**) 08-13-2008, 08:13 PM

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Originally Posted by Marcel Duchamp

I have to go with your choice. The advent of printing allowed the dissemination of information to a much greater extent than had ever been possible. It made the progress of art and science much easier and faster. It also had amazing social effects since printing could be done en masse and new political and social ideas could be widely spread.

Little known fact. First movable type printing press was invented in Korea, a couple of 100 years before Gutenberg. Of course Gutenberg deserves more credit because the Korean invention didn't spark a revolution, but the fact is still there.

As for most important. How about the guy who created wheat? Or glasses. The domestication of grasses was a huge advance without which there would be no civilization. And without glasses, many scholars would not have been able to continue advances into their formative years.