http://newslite.tv/2010/05/18/iphone-voted-one-of-the-worlds.html

They did a top 100 inventions of all time survey (admittedly they only surveyed 4000 brits).   And the iPhone came in at number 8!  Beating off other inventions such as the compass, combustion engine and the flushing toilet.  Mobile phones is also on the list at number 21 (funny, I thought the iPhone IS a mobile phone).  And the telephone comes in at number 6!

Also on the top 100 list include such marvelous inventions as google, facebook, sky+, cheese graters, Hot water (that’s surely not an invention) and Satellite discs (still not really sure what these are).

The missed things like solar panels, lasers, gunpowder, books, fire, soap, solid state technology, plastics, glass, many advances in medical science (defibrillators, MRI machines, X-Ray etc)…

Face. Palm.

Gregory McKinnell