11 Gadgets That Changed The World. What's Missing?

LEDs, ballpoint pens, alkaline batteries, hearing aids
 
3D printers, I don't know how I lived before it, extremely useful thing to have :-)
 
ZoneV said:
The can opener.
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Isn't that reputed to have been invented before the can?
In which case it was as useful as chocolate tea pot initially :D
 
Cobra said:
Isn't that reputed to have been invented before the can?
In which case it was as useful as chocolate tea pot initially :D
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The inventor must have had a small hadron collider.

"Here you go. Don't ask but trust me, you'll thank me later." :)
 
Cobra said:
Isn't that reputed to have been invented before the can?
In which case it was as useful as chocolate tea pot initially :D
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Other way round by a few years IIRC. They had to stab their way into early cans with knives until a proper gadget was created.
 
Nod said:
Other way round by a few years IIRC. They had to stab their way into early cans with knives until a proper gadget was created.
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I always that was the "joke" of the most useful invention, CBA to google, so I guess it maybe an urban myth
unless "you" know different, boys and girls? ...
 
To be fair to me, I did think I knew (and posted!) that you had it the wrong way round before I Moosed it to check!
 
Nod said:
To be fair to me, I did think I knew (and posted!) that you had it the wrong way round before I Moosed it to check!
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No problem it pays to check your facts, I just couldn't be arsed, as cooking toad in the hole, ( not out of a tin) was more important at the time :thumbs:
 
Not purely to check my fact - I also have a bad trivia habit!
 
viv1969 said:
Is there a support group????
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Let me know if you find any, especially if they have a branch down here! If I liked pubs, I would take up their quizzes.
 
Sextant, mechanical analogue watch, compass, knife, bicycle, bit and bridle which allowed horse control which lead early transport system which lead to revolution in industrial supplies and of course warfare?
 
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ianp5a said:
The Ladies Vibrator.

To replace the gentleman.
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3 pages it took for someone to realise T3 was something for boys with toys. The vibrator would make it to the top of the list for ladies.


Lists like these are stupid, just like the occasional survey of the best camera ever made, someone with a D70 is always to guaranteed to name a D70 'because it was a game changer'
 
welshwizard645 said:
3 pages it took for someone to realise T3 was something for boys with toys. The vibrator would make it to the top of the list for ladies.


Lists like these are stupid, just like the occasional survey of the best camera ever made, someone with a D70 is always to guaranteed to name a D70 'because it was a game changer'
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But but but it was. I know I had one :) :p
 
welshwizard645 said:
3 pages it took for someone to realise T3 was something for boys with toys. The vibrator would make it to the top of the list for ladies.


Lists like these are stupid, just like the occasional survey of the best camera ever made, someone with a D70 is always to guaranteed to name a D70 'because it was a game changer'
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The D60 almost had me swapping over to Canon since it was the first DSLR under a grand. A week after I'd tried one on (didn't fit so I didn't do the change!), the D70 dropped in price. Would never claim that it was the best camera ever made, even if I do still have it!
 
Someone already said it. Can opener
 
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Cobra said:
Isn't that reputed to have been invented before the can?
In which case it was as useful as chocolate tea pot initially :D
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Wasn't the diesel engine invented before diesel too? The inventor had it running on peanut oil and the oil industry s*** themselves and quickly created diesel.
 
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I'm told the ladies vibrator originally ran on diesel before the smoother and quieter running, electric ones came out.

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rjbell said:
Wasn't the diesel engine invented before diesel too? The inventor had it running on peanut oil and the oil industry s*** themselves and quickly created diesel.
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Sort of, although technically, Diesel is called Diesel Fuel as in fuel for engines invented by Herr Diesel. My Grandfather used to have a huge stationary engine that ran on paraffin and that was a Diesel engine.
 
Alan Clogwyn said:
Except that's steam powered....
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Mind you, it's really the steam engine that changed the world.

And then electricity was discovered. If it wasn't for that, any of the gadgets as mentioned in this thread would have never got invented, never mind work.
 
Ian D J said:
And then electricity was discovered. If it wasn't for that, any of the gadgets as mentioned in this thread would have never got invented, never mind work.
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Apart from the compass, can opener and lighter. ;)
 
Alan Clogwyn said:
Without steam there wouldn't have been industrial presses pressing cans to need a can opener...
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Originally "cans" didn't need openers as canning was done in glass jars and bottles ;)
 
But the metal can was invented the same year (according to the link above). Which also tells me that I'm as old as the ring pull!!! The only consolation is that Chris is even OLDER than the ring pull :P
 
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