• Question: In your opinion, what is the best thing ever invented?

    Asked by tamsin081299 to Alex, Claire, Kate, Marcus, Neil on 16 Jun 2014.
    • Photo: Alex Lyness

      Alex Lyness answered on 16 Jun 2014:

      Hey tamsin081299,

      There are hundreds of possible answers to that question. There are plenty of incredible medical inventions such as anaesthetic, pacemakers and life saving surgical techniques.

      However, I’m going to pick something that I use every single day, it helps millions of people every day and was invented in my life time. Can you guess what it is?

      I’ll give you a clue… you’re using it right now!

    • Photo: Claire Brockett

      Claire Brockett answered on 17 Jun 2014:

      Hi tamsin081299
      There are so many answers to this.
      There are many devices that have saved millions of people around the world – obviously ones like pacemakers or medical devices, to less obvious ones like seat belts, air bags, and indeed the crash test dummy!
      But overall, I think I’m going to have to agree with Alex, as it’s something I use every day and it’s very important to my work 🙂

    • Photo: Marcus Johns

      Marcus Johns answered on 17 Jun 2014:

      Sliced bread! No… I think that the best ‘invention’ ever is the development of agriculture. I suppose this doesn’t technically count as a single invention, but if it hadn’t been developed we wouldn’t have been able to settle in one place and develop ideas and invent other things as we’d all still be wondering nomads where everyday would be about getting enough food and finding shelter to survive.
      If I had to chose a single invention it would be the battery. Without it we’d still have to wind a handle on our cars up to start them up; man wouldn’t have made it to the moon; we wouldn’t have laptops or mobile phones, and renewable power from the sun and wind would be useless as we couldn’t use it when we wanted to.

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