BBC Audience Vote Bike "Greatest Invention of the Century"
» Submitted by Bob on Wed, 2005-05-11 22:44.
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What's the greatest invention man has bestowed on this planet? Television, the microchip or computer, satelites and space travel...? Apparently, none of the above: but something much simpler, according to listeners of the BBC Radio 4 (the talkie intellectual Beeb station).
From the hundreds of listeners' nominations and together with five experts, voting was opened on a final 10. Here are the results...
59.4% - Bicycle
7.8% - Transistor
7.8% - Electro-magnetic induction ring
6.3% - Computer
4.6% - Germ theory of infection
4.5% - Radio
4.0% - Internet
3.4% - Internal Combustion Engine
1.1% - Nuclear Power
1.1% - Communications satellite