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The Tuesday List - Ten Inventions That Changed The World
Stuff of Genius ^ | June 24, 2013 | Ed Grabianowski

Posted on 06/17/2014 11:35:24 AM PDT by Scoutmaster

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What would you add/drop to the list of the ten top inventions that changed the world?

1 posted on 06/17/2014 11:35:25 AM PDT by Scoutmaster
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What would you add/drop to the list of the ten top inventions that changed the world?

Fire. Fire was a pretty good invention.

2 posted on 06/17/2014 11:40:21 AM PDT by Alex Murphy ("the defacto Leader of the FR Calvinist Protestant Brigades")
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Soap, bathtub, toilet.


3 posted on 06/17/2014 11:46:18 AM PDT by RoosterRedux (Obama: Race is his cover...jihad is his game.)
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1A. Air Conditioning

Because it made it possible for Yankees to live in Texas.


4 posted on 06/17/2014 11:46:24 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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Language itself. Later, writing.


5 posted on 06/17/2014 11:47:13 AM PDT by muir_redwoods (When I first read it, " Atlas Shrugged" was fiction)
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The thermos is the greatest thing ever invented.


6 posted on 06/17/2014 11:47:30 AM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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Microwave oven.

Atomic bomb.

Gattling gun.

7 posted on 06/17/2014 11:48:09 AM PDT by 7thson (I've got a seat at the big conference table! I'm gonna paint my logo on it!)
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I would put spectacle lenses above some of the items on that list. The level of functional blindness would be extremely high without them.


8 posted on 06/17/2014 11:48:35 AM PDT by Kirkwood (Zombie Hunter)
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Law (huh, what’s that?)

Justice (DOA thanks to the corrupt DO”J”)

Alphabet (being murdered by Obama for the neoBabel)


9 posted on 06/17/2014 11:49:49 AM PDT by Diogenesis
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Without a doubt, firearms.


10 posted on 06/17/2014 11:50:03 AM PDT by edpc (Wilby 2016)
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I would also place electrical generation on the list. Without that, computers would be doorstops and the Internet wouldn’t even exist.


11 posted on 06/17/2014 11:52:14 AM PDT by Kirkwood (Zombie Hunter)
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Macadam.


12 posted on 06/17/2014 11:52:48 AM PDT by COUNTrecount (There's no there there.)
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Alternating current


13 posted on 06/17/2014 11:53:20 AM PDT by Heartlander (We are all Rodeo Clowns now!)
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To: Buckeye McFrog; tx_eggman
Yankees to live in Texas

We in Texas see that as a bane...
14 posted on 06/17/2014 11:55:39 AM PDT by SpinnerWebb (IN-SAPORIBVS-SICVT-PVLLVM)
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gunpowder


15 posted on 06/17/2014 12:01:10 PM PDT by Sybeck1 (Vote McDaniel June 24th Mississippi!)
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Cosmetics and alcoholic beverages have probably contributes much to the propagation of human life.


16 posted on 06/17/2014 12:02:12 PM PDT by Kirkwood (Zombie Hunter)
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We didn’t invent fire... Fire exists naturally. We just domesticated fire.


17 posted on 06/17/2014 12:06:41 PM PDT by Oberon (John 12:5-6)
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the concept of zero for counting.
the screw.


18 posted on 06/17/2014 12:08:37 PM PDT by JeanLM (Obama proves melanin is just enough to win elections)
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liquor


19 posted on 06/17/2014 12:08:46 PM PDT by showme_the_Glory (ILLEGAL: prohibited by law. ALIEN: Owing political allegiance to another country or government)
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10. Plow

Somebody watched "Connections"

20 posted on 06/17/2014 12:09:25 PM PDT by dfwgator
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