by Nicholas Ward

Created on: June 07, 2010   Last Updated: June 09, 2010

Everything we have today came from some original invention possibly created millions of years ago. Inventions are like dominoes one person invents something. Then that inventions falls on some one else. Suddenly he gets an idea and builds off that original idea, and so forth, until you have created a society much like ours today.

With so many great inventions of the past each one building off another it's hard to pick just 10 don't you think? Think to yourself for a minute, what are the most important inventions to your life? can you organize them based on the order in which they had to be invented?

For instance we never would have had a wheel barrel if no one invented the wheel.
While your thinking on that here is my list including a little information about each of these inventions that I hold so dear.

The first is the wheel. Without this invention none of what we have now would have been possible. The wheel is the single most important invention in Mans history. Originally invented sometime prior to 3500 B.C. it is one of our oldest and greatest inventions. Scientists today still don't know exactly when, or who invented the first wheel.

The second on my list the light, The light actually has quit an extensive history, having been first invented in 1800 by Humphry Davy using a home made battery. By connecting this homemade battery to a carbon filament he created the first light bulb. The electrical charge transferring through the high resistance carbon filament generated light.

It was considerably later when the light idea was expanded upon. In 1860 an English physicist Joseph Wilson Swan developed a longer lasting version of the light. By changing the carbon filament he was able to make the light last considerably longer. He began demonstrating his new invention in England.

In 1877, Charles Francis Bush manufactured some carbon arcs to light the square in Clevland Ohio. These lights where only used by a great few people. Finally the one we all know well as the so called inventory of the light... Thomas Edison continued to work on the light, and finally found, a perfect combination of materials to produce a very long lasting, and bright filament.

In 1903, Willis R. Whitney developed a treatment for the filament which would prevent the bulb from blackening and that is the light as we know it today a prime example how every new inventions expands on an older one.

My third greatest invention the air conditioner.  The first air conditioning unit came into

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