Cheers
Chris
inventions?
British museum's
Steam engine
V2 rocket engine
Electric telegraph
Stephenson's Rocket - surely a development of steam engine above?
X-ray machine
Model T Ford - a developement not invention
Penicillin - nope, a discovery not invention
Pilot ACE Computer
DNA double helix - nope, another discovery not invention
Apollo 10 capsule
Surely writing has to be in there?
And the humble nut and bolt? And the pneumatic tyre? And paper?
What about the humble wheel?
wheel was surely discovery?
I agree, several of those are discoveries rather than inventions, you'd think the Science museum would know the difference.
How about:
Printing press
Flushing toilet
Light bulb
Telephone
Transistor
Electric motor
The Apollo 10 capsule was certainly an advanced engineering exercise for it's time, but it hardly had a dramatic impact the way we lived unlike
the above inventions.
[Edited on 10/6/09 by MikeRJ]
im afraid this is a case of transliteration between the science museum and the bbc.
The list is for the museums ten favourite objects and the bbc website has decided to use invention as a synonym so the argument of
semantics between development, invention and discovery is spoilt!
How unusual for the BBC to get something like the wrong. Not!
Who do I complain to? The Rocket was years after the first loco's.
Our pioneering railway here gets no press despite being the FIRST.
Check the WIKI HERE!
Sky+ and pies
Cheers
Chris
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Originally posted by chrisg
Sky+ and pies
A pie+ would probably be an early pastie with savoury one side and sweet the other....mmmmmmm
I don't understand the Appollo10 capsule being in there for any reason, according to Wiki it was the 4th manned Appollo mission and the second to
the moon.
Stephenson's Rocket (1829) was not the first locomotive either that was Trevithick's locomotive (1804)
[Edited on 10/6/09 by Schrodinger]
Its got to be Silicone - it gives us
- Glass to hold the beer
- Implants to ogle/lust after when we have drunk the beer
- Computers main 'brain' to access porn on the Internet when we have not got on too well with the first two activities above!
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Originally posted by carpmart
Its got to be Silicone - it gives us
- Glass to hold the beer
- Implants to ogle/lust after when we have drunk the beer
- Computers main 'brain' to access porn on the Internet when we have not got on too well with the first two activities above!
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Originally posted by iank
quote:
Originally posted by carpmart
Its got to be Silicone - it gives us
- Glass to hold the beer
- Implants to ogle/lust after when we have drunk the beer
- Computers main 'brain' to access porn on the Internet when we have not got on too well with the first two activities above!
I suspect you're confusing silicon (1 and 3) and silicone (2)
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Originally posted by Schrodinger
I don't understand the Appollo10 capsule being in there for any reason, according to Wiki it was the 4th manned Appollo mission and the second to the moon.
Stephenson's Rocket (1829) was not the first locomotive either that was Trevithick's locomotive (1804)
How about -
Duct tape
Cable ties
Araldite
The RAC
Without a combination of the above I would still be sitting at the side of a road somewhere 
quote:
Originally posted by coozer
Who do I complain to? The Rocket was years after the first loco's.
Our pioneering railway here gets no press despite being the FIRST.
Check the WIKI HERE!
quote:
Originally posted by clairetoo
How about -
Duct tape
Cable ties
Araldite
The RAC
Without a combination of the above I would still be sitting at the side of a road somewhere
You know I'm surprised no-one's mentioned contraception yet... At least we know the mindset of the forum!
Or the bacon butty, surely one of the greatest ever inventions.
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Originally posted by Confused but excited.
Or the bacon butty, surely one of the greatest ever inventions.
oh stop it yous making my mouth water,
you cant get "reall" bacon sandwiches in france
i havnt had a bacon sany for years
The bottle ...............
Mick
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Originally posted by MikeRJ
quote:
Originally posted by chrisg
Sky+ and pies
Can you combine them and get pie+ ?
quote:
Originally posted by Marcus
A pie+ would probably be an early pastie with savoury one side and sweet the other....mmmmmmm
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Originally posted by Vindi_andy
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Originally posted by Marcus
A pie+ would probably be an early pastie with savoury one side and sweet the other....mmmmmmm
As consumed by cornish tin miners hence the name. And the crimped crust gave them something to hold with their dirty hands while eating said creation which was then discarded
Glad we could be of assistance ninehigh
It was to do with the arsenic present in the mine which would have been all over their hands and therefore they didnt want to handle what they were
eating with dirty hands and there wasnt really anywhere down there to wash them
Sorry for thread hijack
[Edited on 24/6/09 by Vindi_andy]