MacArthur wouldn't have been MacArthur without those aviators.
Posted on 08/20/2013 2:09:58 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
I can think of many much more important inventions than silly putty...
The internet?
WD-40?
Jets?
Helicopters?
Tang?
Radar?
Space Rockets?
Long life shelf food?
King Tiger Tank (for going through Detroit)
M & M ‘s ?
Hmmm. I would have listed the 1911A1.
Dude, private enterprise developing stuff for the military is still private enterprise developing stuff...
Did the author not see the dichotomy of the first line and the first line of the second paragraph?
MacArthur wouldn't have been MacArthur without those aviators.
TANG! It’s what the astronauts drink. Now, let’s mix it with really cheap Vodka and market it to high school kids.
Duct tape. One of the best inventions ever.
have you seen those TV ads for “Twisted Tea”??
Notice what it leaves out?
Any mention that it is a liquor
I would have chosen the Maus...
How did he arrive at 1959 as the date GPS was invented? My dad, Roger Easton, was the person most responsible for GPS. My book on the subject will be published in October.
http://www.potomacbooksinc.com/Books/BookDetail.aspx?productID=293771
If the ancient Egyptians had had duct tape, the Sphinx would still have a nose.
M1 Garand
Waiting for a whole range of LBGT products to be invented for the military. such as..........
Teflon used to coat gun barrels in machine guns.
Slinky
In 1943, Richard James, a naval mechanical engineer stationed at the William Cramp and Sons shipyards in Philadelphia, was developing springs that could support and stabilize sensitive instruments aboard ships in rough seas.[1][2] James accidentally knocked one of the springs from a shelf, and watched as the spring “stepped” in a series of arcs to a stack of books, to a tabletop, and to the floor, where it re-coiled itself and stood upright.[3][4] James’ wife Betty later recalled, “He came home and said, ‘I think if I got the right property of steel and the right tension; I could make it walk.’”[5] James experimented with different types of steel wire over the next year, and finally found a spring that would walk. Betty was dubious at first, but changed her mind after the toy was fine-tuned and neighborhood children expressed an excited interest in it.[4] She dubbed the toy Slinky (meaning “sleek and graceful”), after finding the word in a dictionary,[3][4] and deciding that the word aptly described the sound of a metal spring expanding and collapsing.[6]
RE: The internet?
I didn’t know that Al Gore was in the military... :)
remember the libtards saying (and singing) “what is war good for?”
well....
A World War II Marine told me that condoms were invented to keep water out of the barrel of the M1 Garand.
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