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| Thread ID: 100552 | 2009-06-12 01:28:00 | 10 scientific objects that changed the world | Jen (38) | PC World Chat |
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| 781613 | 2009-06-12 01:28:00 | I found this article on the NewScientist - 10 scientific objects that changed the world (www.newscientist.com). The Science Museum in London is running a poll on what object made the biggest mark on history. This made me think; how do you pick one above the rest? The impact it had on saving lives or the ability to destroy? Being able to travel across the country quickly or to the moon and back? I thought PF1 could do its own mini-poll. What one would you choose? The 10 scientific objects are: Apollo 10 capsule (www.newscientist.com) Thompson’s Atmospheric Engine (www.newscientist.com) The electric telegraph (www.newscientist.com) Model T Ford (www.newscientist.com) Pilot ACE Computer (www.newscientist.com) V2 rocket engine (www.newscientist.com) Penicillin (www.newscientist.com) DNA double helix (www.newscientist.com) X-ray machine (www.newscientist.com) Stephenson's Rocket (www.newscientist.com) |
Jen (38) | ||
| 781614 | 2009-06-12 04:59:00 | The telegraph, being an ancestor of email. :D | pcuser42 (130) | ||
| 781615 | 2009-06-12 05:21:00 | Sir Tim Bernes-Lee invention is not even in the list? | Renmoo (66) | ||
| 781616 | 2009-06-12 05:59:00 | Penicillin (www.newscientist.com) Might have to add Shortsightness of Humans which made the above Wonder extremely short lived. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 781617 | 2009-06-12 06:11:00 | model T ford | GameJunkie (72) | ||
| 781618 | 2009-06-12 06:58:00 | Penicillin | gary67 (56) | ||
| 781619 | 2009-06-12 07:10:00 | Gee I had not heard of two of them ! I suppose its the telegraph. |
Digby (677) | ||
| 781620 | 2009-06-12 07:13:00 | Sir Tim Bernes-Lee invention is not even in the list?Al Gore bet him to it. ;) | Jen (38) | ||
| 781621 | 2009-06-12 07:30:00 | Penicillin - but it's a two-edged sword. On the one hand it has saved millions of lives. On the other hand, it has saved millions of lives. |
johcar (6283) | ||
| 781622 | 2009-06-12 07:59:00 | DNA, for getting to the basis of who we are and the scientific community isn't even close to started with using it to solve diseases etc | beeswax34 (63) | ||
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