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The 50 most influential Gadgets of All Time
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| May 3, 2016
| Multiple Time Editors
Posted on 05/03/2016 3:27:49 PM PDT by Swordmaker
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To: Calvin Locke
Growing pains, but it was a glimpse of the possible. The first remote control. The Couch Potato was born!
The local radio station here (KTRH 740) runs a radio ad "We didn't have remote controls when we were growing up... That's why we had you kids!"
-PJ
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posted on
05/03/2016 5:34:46 PM PDT
by
Political Junkie Too
(If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
To: Swordmaker
palattes Is that a large quantity of lattes, so large that it must be palletized?
;^)
To: sharpee
I would put the HP-35 as the killer of slide rulers. I have a HP-25 and HP-97 programmable calculators. HP had the best calculators available in the 1970s, really elegant machines. They're actually small computers, being programmable. As you said, slide rulers no longer necessary after HP made these gadgets.
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posted on
05/03/2016 5:41:00 PM PDT
by
roadcat
To: sharpee
I would put the HP-35 as the killer of slide rulers. Thinking of that, the Slide Rule should be on the list. . .
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posted on
05/03/2016 5:44:01 PM PDT
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Swordmaker
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To: Swordmaker
Digital watch, walkie talkie, and kitchen timer
To: Disambiguator
Is that a large quantity of lattes, so large that it must be palletized? My spell checker kept changing it to that spelling. . . I finally gave up. I'm not sure where that spelling came from, but I think it wants to be French Painter. . .
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05/03/2016 5:49:02 PM PDT
by
Swordmaker
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To: PAR35
I thought the HP-35 was the first.
To: Swordmaker
And the ignition timing light
To: Elderberry
Looks like you are right. OK, HP-35 instead of the TI.
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posted on
05/03/2016 6:09:10 PM PDT
by
PAR35
To: Swordmaker
Politically incorrect now, but the gadget that won World War II - the Zippo lighter. Runner up, the Bic lighter. And now that I think of it, the Bic 19 cent ball point pen.
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posted on
05/03/2016 6:15:13 PM PDT
by
PAR35
To: PAR35
Dang RPN. I did a lot of transformer design calcs on the HP-45.
To: Swordmaker
This list is horrible! What about the Shake Weight?!
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posted on
05/03/2016 7:04:11 PM PDT
by
pgyanke
(Republicans get in trouble when not living up to their principles. Democrats... when they do.)
To: BenLurkin
And the All Edges Brownie Pan You just improved my quality of life.
To: BenLurkin
And the All Edges Brownie Pan You just improved my quality of life.
To: PAR35
Politically incorrect now, but the gadget that won World War II - the Zippo lighter. Runner up, the Bic lighter. And now that I think of it, the Bic 19 cent ball point pen. Any Ball point pen, also a WWII invention if I recall correctly. . . at least the first successful ones, the Biro ball point pens invented in Argentina.
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05/03/2016 7:11:05 PM PDT
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Swordmaker
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To: Political Junkie Too
Our first color tv was a Heath Kit my father put together with a lot of help from his engineer BIL. It had a wired remote. Power, and a button to advance the VHF tuner.
To: djf
Canned food. Then, they had to invent all of those nifty can openers.
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posted on
05/03/2016 8:00:07 PM PDT
by
virgil
(The evil that men do lives after them)
To: virgil
Well, early on I think most canning was actually done in glass jars.
If you want to know more about canned food do a Google on the Steamship Bertrand. It’s quite a fascinating story!
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posted on
05/03/2016 8:13:36 PM PDT
by
djf
("She wore a raspberry beret, the kind you find in a second hand store..." - Prince)
To: Swordmaker
Apparently, it was developed in Europe, but for some reason the Jewish inventors decided to move to Argentina from continental Europe during the early 1940s.
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posted on
05/03/2016 8:13:40 PM PDT
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PAR35
To: Swordmaker
For a Gen X type, I have more of those than I thought I would. Six, to be precise.
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posted on
05/03/2016 8:28:24 PM PDT
by
Kommodor
(Terrorist, Journalist or Democrat? I can't tell the difference.)
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