Have there been any new inventions since the end of WWII

towershot said:
The contraceptive pill . just update chastity belt.lol
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I know you're joking, but they're actually diametrically opposed, the chastty belt was intended to prevent women having sex, the pill allowed and encouraged them to go and get their rocks off.
 
elektro said:
McDonalds
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Founded 1940 ;)

And here it is

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Okay, then it's the fast food as an omnipresent way to eat...
 
I don't think that in 1940 it was so widespread like nowadays ;)
 
wegotitugetit said:
Rubik's Cube

if this fall's into this

i think it was 70's correct me if im worng
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Bedlam cube also. Would have been 1990's ro 2000's

I still think that the internet one posted is valid. Ok it's based on a computer but the first computer was invented during WW2 and that only had the capability to break codes and did not actually hold a wealth of info accessible by anybody in the world.

(it has been re-made and is still breaking codes and actually managed to beat a modern computer when pitted against each other)
 
Nicola.P said:
Bedlam cube also. Would have been 1990's ro 2000's

I still think that the internet one posted is valid. Ok it's based on a computer but the first computer was invented during WW2 and that only had the capability to break codes and did not actually hold a wealth of info accessible by anybody in the world.

(it has been re-made and is still breaking codes and actually managed to beat a modern computer when pitted against each other)
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IIRC either IBM or Microsoft paid for that, and so they bloody should , if it wasn't for our WWII beardy pipe smoking boffins we'd all be speaking German now, imagine the carnage the Nazis would have caused if the boffins at Bletchley Park hadn't cracked the enigma code
 
i think my point was in the 19th and early 20th century the likes of Edison and Graham Bell had paper a pencil and imagination, the scientists of the 1940s had more technology and desperation, we have the latest technology and supercomputers so why hasn't warp drive or such like been invented, in actual fact we're getting slower.

we don't have a fighter faster than the Lightning or a passenger plane faster than Concorde and space travel is still a big firework first mastered by the Germans with their V2 rocket
 
Bluetack.
Post it notes
The Transistor
Nylon tights (My good ladys suggestion)
Tippex
Biro
 
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hepburn for someone who doesnt like me u sure do like talking about me ;)
 
Aerogel [Edit: 1931! Amazing.]
MRI scanners?
Solar cells

Side point:
Looking through this thread there's a lot of "that doesn't count as it's based on something previous", but you have to define a cutoff point. At what point does two items no longer fall into the same category? If you want to be really picky then you can trace everything back to being the same as each other or using the same technology or ideas, but you have to make distinctions.
A landline phone and a cellular phone are both telephones, but they aren't the same. Yes, if the original hadn't been invented then the mobile wouldn't have come along - but in the same vein if humans hadn't developed the ability to talk then we wouldn't have had the telephone!
 
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Video recorders and tapes.

Audio recorders and tapes.

Random Access Memory.
 
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credit card
bar codes
computer mouse
 
Actually - given the OPs approach to this.

OP - PLease tell me ANYTHING that has been invented at ANY time - and I am pretty sure I can come up with a smart answer on how it was done before the "invention"

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So let me get this right. After 4 pages you use Eddison and Bell as examples of "orignal thinkers"???+

Awesome.
 
Everything of any use was invented by Fred Flintstone in about 667 BC. Anything else is just an improvement on his groundbreaking work.


Steve.
 
actually fred ripped off the guy from the cave next door's great uncle.
 
reusable media storage (cassette or even 8 track)
 
Contact Lenses
Polypropolene
Holograms
video games
Kevlar
Barcodes
Viagra!
 
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