• Question: what do you think the best invention is, and why ?

    Asked by erikajas to Dean, Jess, Luisa on 25 Jun 2010 in Categories: .
    • Photo: Dean Whittaker

      Dean Whittaker answered on 24 Jun 2010:

      The plough.

      During the agricultural revolution we went from being poor and starving to being relatively well off and well fed. That’s all due to farming advances. Things like the plough etc. have helped us grow things on a huge scale – so we can let a few people take care of farming while everyone else does other things and help make everything better (Build houses, make computers etc). If we hadn’t figured out how to get food more easily, we wouldn’t have done anything else, we’d all be spending all day every day trying to farm our own food!

    • Photo: Luisa Ostertag

      Luisa Ostertag answered on 25 Jun 2010:

      The energy saving/ efficient light bulb.
      It works for up to 10 years, does not waste a lot of the electrical energy as heat (as normal light bulbs do) and still makes your room nice and bright!

    • Photo: Jessica Housden

      Jessica Housden answered on 25 Jun 2010:

      I think that the battery – understanding electricity has revolutionised our world.

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