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Joshua Hanley added an answer: "Machine tools" (12 months ago)

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1.	88 votes 1697 pts	Printing Press 4 Comments
2.	61 votes 1155 pts	Internet Technology Because of the current and future impacts on economics, cultural geography, and general flow of information, the internet has to be considered one of the most important advances in history. Discuss
3.	34 votes 640 pts	Electricity Discuss
4.	26 votes 482 pts	Paper 1 Comment
5.	16 votes 289 pts	Antibiotics 2 Comments
6.	13 votes 223 pts	Microchip Discuss
7.	12 votes 217 pts	Bicycle The most energy-efficient form of transport imaginable. 1 Comment
8.	12 votes 217 pts	Vaccine Therapy Discuss
9.	11 votes 195 pts	Glasses Without this invention many billion of years of raw talent could not have been harnessed. Imagine how much further we have prgressed forward because people can see, and be more productive and make society (on average) a better place. 1 Comment
10.	10 votes 189 pts	Sliced Bread Discuss
11.	10 votes 176 pts	Calculus Just try and do anything without it. 2 Comments
12.	9 votes 155 pts	Steel Go ahead. Build something reaally big out of iron. Notice that noise? That's the sound of it collapsing. Discuss
13.	7 votes 129 pts	Abstract thinking thinking abstract, disconnected from the real nature, was the most important step. just look at all the mathematical methods, physics and so on 3 Comments
14.	6 votes 112 pts	Antiseptics Discuss
15.	6 votes 109 pts	Lowercase Letters Because if the Medievals never came up with it, it would be really annoying. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lowercase for more. 1 Comment