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Topic: The Greatest Invention of ALL Time
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Cat Moderator Posts: 3307 From: England Registered: Jan 2002
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posted August 23, 2002 01:16 PM
What do you think is the Greatest Invention and why? Sue IP: Logged |
StarLover33 Moderator Posts: 1987 From: King Arthur's Camelot Registered: Jun 2002
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posted August 23, 2002 01:30 PM
The Refrigerator, because if we didn't have this invention we would have to grow our food.-StarLover IP: Logged |
Hopeful Knowflake Posts: 1396 From: The Mists of Avalon Registered: Jan 2002
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posted August 23, 2002 04:10 PM
The internet - because otherwise I wouldn't have discovered and come to know the many beautiful, enlightened souls here at LindaLand. Hopeful IP: Logged |
Randall Webmaster Posts: 16464 From: Columbus, GA USA Registered: Nov 2000
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posted August 23, 2002 10:19 PM
Thanks to Al Gore for inventing the internet! ------------------ "Never mentally imagine for another that which you would not want to experience for yourself, since the mental image you send out inevitably comes back to you." Rebecca Clark IP: Logged |
Foxxy Knowflake Posts: 271 From: Toronto Registered: Aug 2002
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posted August 23, 2002 10:43 PM
Can I say written comunications? Pen and Paper? I mean imagine a society without it? If not I'd say the microwave. Mmm instant popcorn . . IP: Logged |
jwhop Knowflake Posts: 1112 From: Registered: Aug 2001
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posted August 25, 2002 12:32 PM
Hmmm, I'd have to go with back seats for automobiles jwhop IP: Logged |
Cat Moderator Posts: 3307 From: England Registered: Jan 2002
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posted August 25, 2002 01:10 PM
Jwhop So what did they do before seats Sue IP: Logged |
jwhop Knowflake Posts: 1112 From: Registered: Aug 2001
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posted August 25, 2002 03:01 PM
Hey SueYou're asking me to remember way back! So, OK it's coming back to me now! Wow!! Poison Ivy jwhop IP: Logged |
Foxxy Knowflake Posts: 271 From: Toronto Registered: Aug 2002
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posted August 25, 2002 10:42 PM
LOL!!! JWHopIP: Logged |
Randall Webmaster Posts: 16464 From: Columbus, GA USA Registered: Nov 2000
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posted August 26, 2002 05:00 AM
The first great invention would probably be a toss-up between the printing press, penicillin, and refrigeration. But I'd have to say the greatest of all-time is the computer. ------------------ "Never mentally imagine for another that which you would not want to experience for yourself, since the mental image you send out inevitably comes back to you." Rebecca Clark IP: Logged |
Cat Moderator Posts: 3307 From: England Registered: Jan 2002
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posted August 26, 2002 07:21 AM
What're everyone's thoughts on the mobile phone (cell phone) A lot of people say they can't live without one....... Sue IP: Logged |
jwhop Knowflake Posts: 1112 From: Registered: Aug 2001
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posted August 26, 2002 02:28 PM
I would have to say animal husbandry and the coming of agriculture (planting vegetable and fruit crops) which took people out of the hunter-gatherer mode and made civilization (more or less) possible.IP: Logged |
Aphrodite Moderator Posts: 3280 From: San Francisco, CA, United States Registered: Feb 2002
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posted August 26, 2002 02:32 PM
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Randall Webmaster Posts: 16464 From: Columbus, GA USA Registered: Nov 2000
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posted August 26, 2002 07:56 PM
ice cream ------------------ "Never mentally imagine for another that which you would not want to experience for yourself, since the mental image you send out inevitably comes back to you." Rebecca Clark IP: Logged |
moonshadow Knowflake Posts: 258 From: Johannesburg,South Africa Registered: Jun 2002
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posted August 30, 2002 09:40 AM
I would not name a specific thing but the technology that has come about because of the age of aquarius . IP: Logged |
La-Tee-Da Knowflake Posts: 1434 From: New Orleans, Louisiana Registered: Feb 2002
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posted September 01, 2002 07:43 AM
I would have to say the Internet. Without this wonderful invention, we would not be a family!!!! I love all of you!! and owe this beautiful group to the Internet!! ------------------ Hugs,LTD ~~The struggle keeps us young~~Daring to make mistakes and knowing there are none.~~DGM IP: Logged |
Miracle Moderator Posts: 581 From: Croatia Registered: Jan 2002
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posted September 06, 2002 12:26 PM
Books. IP: Logged |
spin-boson Knowflake Posts: 72 From: stillwater,oklahoma-usa Registered: May 2002
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posted September 06, 2002 10:06 PM
A/C and D/C Tesla is the man, Edison-well we all know now.IP: Logged |
Rue Knowflake Posts: 144 From: Kitchener, Ontario Canada Registered: Jul 2002
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posted September 06, 2002 10:39 PM
Disposable diapers! you wouldn't catch me using one of those cloth things! The radio, it was the begining of in home electrical entertainment,all though I suppose familys may have had a bit more communication with eachother before it, but they probably thought of new things to talk about, with all the new music and storys they were hearing, not to mention they got local news first hand this way. And one more is transportation, I would hate to walk from here to my sisters, or even ride a horse there, so many people died this way. I think transportation has been a life saver, to bad it's also very destructful to the enviroment. Ok.... one more thing (I keep poping out with ideas!) Steel, it is SO useful for things like bridges and apartment buildings, our countrys would be sooooo crammed without apartments, people would be making man made islands because there would be no more room, espesially in places like Asia or big North American citys. Alright, thats it! Rue IP: Logged |
ZenRia Knowflake Posts: 132 From: Round Hill, VA, USA Registered: Jun 2002
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posted September 06, 2002 11:04 PM
The greatest invention of all times is chocolate! End of discussion hehehe! ------------------ In Peace, Ria IP: Logged |
Cat Moderator Posts: 3307 From: England Registered: Jan 2002
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posted September 07, 2002 04:07 AM
Ria Yes how could I have overlooked that one - it's the one thing that solves everything Sue IP: Logged |
raj_105_2001 Knowflake Posts: 1219 From: Chennai Registered: Apr 2001
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posted September 07, 2002 07:46 AM
Electric bulb - I used to think. It was the first use of the greatest discovery - Electricity. Infact after the invention of Electric bulb, Technology started progressing exponentially.Some would say it is the Television - some say it is the worst invention(!). The Computer is certainly a great invention. If you had asked me about a century ago, anybody would say it is the telegraph or the train - they were the greatest inventions during the period. Before the invention of petrol engines, railways were the chief means of transport. Infact the Train is the most primitive of modern inventions(!). In today's world, it is difficult to say. I would say it is the mouse! IP: Logged |