greatest innovator of all time · General Discussion Forum

Nellinator Crazy Canuck

Originally posted by Lord Coal
The Mona Lisa's shit though. How can that be considered a masterpiece. It's a sulky woman......Big deal......
He really had a great mind, though. As did Archimedes, of course.

Yah, I really like the story of his mirror weapon. That is only if the story is to be believed though... Didn't Archimedes first ultilize some the simple machines we use today?

Lord Coal The Carbon Knight

Yeah, Archimedes invented the hand pump and things like that.

Storm Black belt BJJ

Originally posted by Nellinator
Yah, I really like the story of his mirror weapon. That is only if the story is to be believed though... Didn't Archimedes first ultilize some the simple machines we use today?

Quite a few conditions need to be fulfilled in order to make Archimedes' death ray work.

Bardock42 Junior Member

The story of Archimedes Mirror Weapons is most likely just a myth. At least the Mythbusters were unable to reproduce it in any way.

Strangelove Misunderstood Genius

Probably the greatest modern innovator was Thomas Edison.

The lightbulb, and by extension, humanity's use of electricity can be credited to Edison.

Other than that and the phonograph, he didn't really have any inventions of note (he invented the peep hole, that was amusing to me), but that was quite an impact.

Storm Black belt BJJ

Originally posted by Bardock42
The story of Archimedes Mirror Weapons is most likely just a myth. At least the Mythbusters were unable to reproduce it in any way.

MIT' s 2.009ers could. They concluded that it is possible, but as good as unlikely during a battle.

Fire Senior Member

I agree with Strangelove, Edison is my number one as well.

Altho 'greatest innovator' is too broad imo

Ambience A-Train

Madame Currie.
She discovered the element radium, which led to many, many medical advancments. It is used to help treat cancer and is found in a limited amount of products around the world.