best inventions!

hey all i want to know what all of you think is the best invention of then 20th century. and it has to be a material think not like comunism.

personally i think the speaker. let me know what you think thanks

Hu Ha!

 

The microchip.

 

the 20'th?. . . . . .

coffe maker
a bunn

 

The transistor, as in the replacement for radio valves. Without the transistor you wouldn't have any of the current electrical stuff. I well remember my first transistorised radio. Slightly smaller in height and width than my current laptop and about twice as thick. Bazza

 

vacations ( ok not really an invention )

 

washing machines

 

Yep. Virtually EVERYTHING today relies on them.

 

MUSIC
all types, oh so boring with out it.

 

yep another good one i was thinking about is the printing press it cuased the first mass amout of bibles and such!

 

everyone is doing great thanks for posting everyone and keep posting i want to see alot of results thanks

hu ha!

 

Probably get my post (and my MG membership) removed for this, but


Vibrators.

How else would us men get away from the missus long enough to come and be Geeky??


"Here love, you go play with that. I'm gonna be "busy" for a while"

 

telecommunication satellites-now we can watch 24 hours a day coverage of an event that takes 15 minutes to explain completely.
internet-now closet perverts don't have to worry about their minister seeing them leave the back room in the video store (the one with the "you must be 18 to enter" sign) with movies in hand.

 

Agree with bigbazza. The invention of the semiconductor. I remember when car radios went from tubes to transistors. It was 1964.

 

BLAH HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA...........

Talk about corrupting the young minds here. lol

Hum best invention........


The assembly line....or

small text





cooked

 

mutz_nutz_uk:

do you really think the ladies want us around anyway?

but I retract my last post

silly putty:
it was the first of many of its kind

 

nnooowwww hhowww dddoooo yyyooouu ttuurrrrnnnn tthhheemmmm ooofffffffff.....yyyyyeeeeeee

 

About the same time that cars went from DC generators to alternators too, thanks to solid-state diodes. HUGE improvement in amperage, particularly amperage at low RPM.

 

8 track tape players

 

Sliced Bread

 

disposable diapers

 

the vibrator... er, um. at home dating.

 

well. . .theres two. . . . . .

 

batteries!

 

calculators
wernt they technically the first computers

 

I love my calculater
my wife took it

but the oscilator(sp)
has helped me a bit

 

LAPTOP's ----------as in computers LOL Mine goes where I go !!!!!

 

Almost everything here goes back to the transistor. Up there with the wheel and the steam engine, I guess, as one of the great leaps forward.

For the 21st century, I think stem cells will be number one.

Ducks, runs for cover.
(hey, I'm on vacation, I'm bored)

 

here ya go LOL

Vacume Tube

 

Umm...no. The first computer was the size of a room. Its name was ENIAC or UNIVAC or something like that.

 

HAD ALOT OF TUBES LOL

 

Anyone remember vacuum powered windscreen wipers.? The faster you went the slower the wipers worked. Just the opposite to what you needed. Thanks for the invention of electric wipers. Bazza

 

LOL showing your age there buddie LOL

 

ok

does anybody remember
when the automobile
got enclosed?

 

Sir Walter Babbage designed the first computer, the Difference Engine, in 1822. His next design, the Analytical Engine, would have been the first programmable computer with memory, if anyone would actually have believed it could be built with 19th century technology. Ironically, the London Science built a working model of the computer and its printer using 19th century technology. A mathematician friend of Babbage's, Lady Ada Lovelace, even wrote some programs for it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Difference_engine

Imagine where we would be now if computers were a 150 year old technology.

 

i feel like i am back at school

heres one i havent seen
the calander



did anyone say the internet
IF NOT WE NEED TO THANK AL GORE FOR INVENTING IT

also a LOCK BOX ( use a southern drawl when saying lock box )

 

Al Gore did not invent the internet

 

I know, but in 2000 he said that he did

 

He probably thinks he did
that reminds me of an interview with jay leno who said:

 

you too, unless you own a pre ' 60's car. Bazza

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LOL nope I don't, use to have a 69 fleetwood caddy big block 427 GM motor,,, LOL kick stools in the back for your feet and nice tail fins,, canary yellow with a black top,,a florida car,,,was my grandparents from the get go my first car,,from the family handed down,,, That was a GREAT CAR thanks for the memories !!!

 

But he invented Pokemon lol.