Greatest invention/breakthrough ever

[The One and Only Mo]

What a racist you are, Mo! Listing all these amazing inventions and omitting the fact that black science created them! 

You're racist for calling me racist! And I wouldn't state the obvious, I mean after all it's obvious black science created everything. 

[Sparky]

Prior to the printing press, the world population was pretty much illiterate except for a small number of scholars.  The printing press completely changed this.  The great inventions listed would never have occurred if it hadn't been for the printing press.

[muman613]

Prior to the printing press, the world population was pretty much illiterate except for a small number of scholars.  The printing press completely changed this.  The great inventions listed would never have occurred if it hadn't been for the printing press.

You could argue that the printing press would not be possible without metallurgical skills were invented, etcetera, etcetera... In Jewish belief we say Hashem created "The Tongs which created the Tongs" on the eve of the 1st Sabbath...

http://www.torah.org/learning/pirkei-avos/chapter5-8.html

Avos 5:8
"Ten things were created on the Sabbath eve at twilight. They are: the mouth of the earth [which swallowed Korach and his co-conspirators] (Numbers 16:32), the mouth of the well [which accompanied Israel in the desert], the mouth of the donkey [which rebuked Balaam] (ibid., 22:28), the rainbow, the Manna, the staff [of Moses], the shamir worm, the script [of the Torah], the inscription [on the Tablets of the Ten Commandments], and the Tablets. Some say: also destructive spirits, the burial place of Moses, and the ram of our father Abraham [which he slaughtered in place of Isaac] (Genesis 22:13). And some say, also tongs -- which are made with tongs."

http://www.torah.org/learning/pirkei-avos/chapter5-8b.html

Finally, tongs deserve an honorable mention: if nothing else they make an interesting diversion. :-) I don't know if they too represent a merging of physical and spiritual realities, but they address one of those logical dilemmas which has plagued man throughout the centuries. It takes a pair of tongs to shape a second pair over the fire. Who made the first one? Did the first blacksmith torture himself for the benefit of the future of mankind? It too could have only been an act of G-d -- not during the Six Days in which He created the natural world, but as a special gift to allow man to get on with the task of living and prospering in the world we know.

It is an interesting understanding...