What have been the best inventions?
Jun 20, 2022 00:20:33 #
I'm so bad. 
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Jun 20, 2022 05:10:10 #
RodeoMan wrote:
It didn't work for your dad. lol.
He was a non believer
Jun 20, 2022 09:11:21 #
bikinkawboy wrote:
Dirtfarmer, explaining the thermos bottle the way you did just destroyed the magic of it all. There is now one less wonder in my life. I hope you’re happy...
You can wonder what magic they use to apply the mirror coating on the inside of the bottle.
Jun 20, 2022 09:14:28 #
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Jun 20, 2022 10:44:03 #
SteveR wrote:
WD40???
Can’t have that without adding duct tape!
Jun 20, 2022 10:52:20 #
BassmanBruce wrote:
Can’t have that without adding duct tape!
Jun 20, 2022 11:20:35 #
SteveFranz
Loc: Durham, NC
SteveR wrote:
Let me add one. The baseball.
Why do I need a baseball? I can go out on my deck anytime and watch the grass grow.
There is also a golf course behind my house. I can watch the grass grow out there even when no golfers are present.
Jun 20, 2022 11:30:58 #
SteveFranz wrote:
Why do I need a baseball? I can go out on my deck anytime and watch the grass grow.
There is also a golf course behind my house. I can watch the grass grow out there even when no golfers are present.
There is also a golf course behind my house. I can watch the grass grow out there even when no golfers are present.
Sorry if you haven't had this experience, Steve, but the best single athletic experience is throwing a baseball. Now if you'd played the game, especially from behind the plate, you'd understand what makes it so exciting. Many of us remember growing up listening to games on the RADIO!!! Now imagine that.
Jun 20, 2022 11:34:37 #
Over 30 years ago, I read the book "Connections" by Professor James Burke. It was a companion to the PBS series of the same name. He also vastly revised his latest edition but it seems that a lot of inventions, aren't really inventions after all.
We sometimes misname innovations as inventions. At the top of the list is the steam engine. While James Watt gets credit, it was Newcomen who developed a somewhat practical design, although it was fraught with problems, and it was by and large an innovation from earlier designs.
There's also another, excellent book on innovation, by Matt Ridley: "How Innovation Works: And How It Flourishes In Freedom".
As to the original post, I'm going with the X-ray. It opened up medicine, enabling doctors to "see" the inside of the human body, and it opened up the fields of genetics.
We sometimes misname innovations as inventions. At the top of the list is the steam engine. While James Watt gets credit, it was Newcomen who developed a somewhat practical design, although it was fraught with problems, and it was by and large an innovation from earlier designs.
There's also another, excellent book on innovation, by Matt Ridley: "How Innovation Works: And How It Flourishes In Freedom".
As to the original post, I'm going with the X-ray. It opened up medicine, enabling doctors to "see" the inside of the human body, and it opened up the fields of genetics.
Jun 20, 2022 11:49:00 #
SteveFranz
Loc: Durham, NC
SteveR wrote:
Sorry if you haven't had this experience, Steve, but the best single athletic experience is throwing a baseball. Now if you'd played the game, especially from behind the plate, you'd understand what makes it so exciting. Many of us remember growing up listening to games on the RADIO!!! Now imagine that.
Unfortunately I grew up a long time ago on a farm. No close siblings and not much time for games. In school I was always one of the last to be picked for a team. Kinda soured me on the whole sports thing.
Tried golf a few times, never could see any fun or enjoyment in walking around swinging a golf club. Reminded my too much of cutting weeds out of the soybean fields.
Jun 20, 2022 12:17:00 #
The Automobile, Interstate Highways and the Jet Airplanes. It ruined the Railroad Passenger Train service in this county.
Jun 20, 2022 12:49:45 #
SteveFranz wrote:
Unfortunately I grew up a long time ago on a farm. No close siblings and not much time for games. In school I was always one of the last to be picked for a team. Kinda soured me on the whole sports thing.
Tried golf a few times, never could see any fun or enjoyment in walking around swinging a golf club. Reminded my too much of cutting weeds out of the soybean fields.
Tried golf a few times, never could see any fun or enjoyment in walking around swinging a golf club. Reminded my too much of cutting weeds out of the soybean fields.
I can relate, Steve. My Mother's parents had half a section in Kansas. We lived in Michigan. Her brother's family had a farm half a mile up the road from my Grandparents and I had a male cousin a year older than me. While I was playing baseball in the summer, he was toting bales of hay. During the school year he was up at 5 doing chores. I must say, I preferred my summers to his. My Dad was an athlete and h.s. coach and he got me into baseball when I was young. I loved baseball. The though of toting bales of hay in the heat? Not so much.
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