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List Best Inventions

 
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I always wonder about the following inventions:

1. Bicycle
2. Safety pin
3. Wrist watch
4. Pencil
5. Telephone
6. Power glass (Eye specs)
7. Electricity
8. Blade
9. Ladder


List yours!!
 
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Originally posted by Ashok Ravi:
I always wonder about the following inventions:

1. Bicycle
2. Safety pin
3. Wrist watch
4. Pencil
5. Telephone
6. Power glass (Eye specs)
7. Electricity
8. Blade
9. Ladder


List yours!!



1. Fire starting implements.
2. Agriculture.
3. Writing.
4. Political rights protecting liberty (includes property rights).
5. US Constitution.
6. Metallurgy.
7. Radio.
8. Internet.
9. Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
 
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What??? No beer or wine?
No distallations from beer or wine?
 
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Sewage disposal systems.
 
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Me.
 
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sliced bread!
 
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The paperclip is as clever as it is ubiquitous.
 
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Toilet paper
 
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Originally posted by Ernest Friedman-Hill:
Me.


Windows Millennium Edition?
 
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Originally posted by Ernest Friedman-Hill:
Me.



? Some of the best inventions are made by mistake?
 
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condom? To avoid 'mistake' ?
On serious note, we(India) would be 5 billion without its presence.
 
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printing press
computer
 
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Screw is one of the best inventions. All the big machines essentially need screw and bolt to build them.
Screw
[ October 17, 2008: Message edited by: Nitin Nigam ]
 
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The noodle eater's hair guard:



Definitely one of the best inventions.
 
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girls.
 
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Some Inventions helps lot but we forgot them as inventions, many things occurs in our life as day to day things,we don't think lot,but use them.
Invention as per civilization:-
Indian
China.
U.S.A..

We should Salute every inventor, because of them we get easy life.
[ October 17, 2008: Message edited by: Mandar Khire ]
 
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Concrete.
 
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Clumping cat litter.
 
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cake
chocolate
bacon
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Here's My List,

Java
Object Oriented Concepts
Business Component Technology
 
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The Fender Stratocaster.
 
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Originally posted by marc weber:
The Fender Stratocaster.



Only if pluggd into a tube amp.

Transistor amps are evil

And while I like my strat, I like my ES335 better
 
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Drums !!! (Electronic)
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Plastics.
 
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Fashion ...!!
 
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Fashion ...!!
 
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Originally posted by Ajil sa:
Fashion ...!!



Bah, that's been there even before the caveman clubbed the cavewoman wearing the shortest leather.
 
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Bah, that's been there even before the caveman clubbed the cavewoman wearing the shortest leather.



It is continuous non ending invention..!!

Fashion is about everything cloths,style,look,hair, see this lil fashionable baby penguin
 
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Originally posted by Ulf Dittmer:
Plastics.


Nowadays considered as a mistake.
 
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Nowadays considered as a mistake.


You missed my point.
 
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Originally posted by Saurabh Pillai:
... Nowadays considered as a mistake.


Plastics don't make mistakes. People make... Uh, never mind.

Has anyone mentioned fashion?
 
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Originally posted by marc weber:
Has anyone mentioned fashion?


 
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1sailing boat
2zipper
3camera
4turntable
5(beer or wine) -> aspirin
6microscope
7the backspace button

and for Pat's strat: e minor!


Bu.
[ October 19, 2008: Message edited by: Burkhard Hassel ]
 
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