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02-06-2020, 12:35 PM
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Full time employment: Posting here.
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I'll give a shout out to CPAP.
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02-06-2020, 12:38 PM
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Full time employment: Posting here.
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02-06-2020, 01:05 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
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Great thread. Here's one not mentioned, yet: Fire suppressant sprinkler systems.
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02-06-2020, 01:13 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
Give me a forum ...
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Location: Colorado
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Originally Posted by scrabbler1
I don't think it would count as an invention, but I would include the Interstate Highway System as something big and new in the last 100 years.
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We stole that from the Germans.
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02-06-2020, 01:23 PM
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Administrator
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Quote:
Originally Posted by COcheesehead
We stole that from the Germans.
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Actually, the Italians had the first highway - the Autostrada del Sole (A1) from Rome to Milan - before the Germans built the Autobahn.
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02-06-2020, 01:28 PM
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Moderator Emeritus
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Gumby
Actually, the Italians had the first highway - the Autostrada del Sole (A1) from Rome to Milan - before the Germans built the Autobahn.
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I would guess they stole the idea from the early Romans! 
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02-06-2020, 01:36 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Location: Colorado
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Gumby
Actually, the Italians had the first highway - the Autostrada del Sole (A1) from Rome to Milan - before the Germans built the Autobahn.
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I've been on that road.
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02-06-2020, 01:50 PM
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Full time employment: Posting here.
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Low cost or no load index funds.
Tax advantaged retirement savings availability for the masses.
Robotic surgery.
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02-06-2020, 01:57 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
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All things communication, I couldn't imagine telegraphs. The fact that I can live across the country and still know every detail of my families lives, livestream their concerts and soccer practices, instant message my nieces/nephews, etc and I have instant access to my friends all over the world.
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02-06-2020, 03:47 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
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Bacon? Sure, it's over 100 YO, but deserving of honorable mention.
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02-06-2020, 03:56 PM
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Recycles dryer sheets
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Girl Scout Cookies.
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02-06-2020, 04:08 PM
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Originally Posted by karen1972
All things communication, I couldn't imagine telegraphs. The fact that I can live across the country and still know every detail of my families lives, livestream their concerts and soccer practices, instant message my nieces/nephews, etc and I have instant access to my friends all over the world.
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This reminds me of a very nice lady who worked in the office before I retired. At the time reports were printed on dot-matrix printers that were irritatingly noisy to everyone. She associated those noisy printers with "computers" and to her they were all part of the same package.
She was furious when not only did her husband want to buy a home computer, he wanted to put it in the bedroom! 
That is, until she found out that she could get pictures from her grandchildren who lived in Oregon, on the same day said photos where taken. (We were in MD.)
Then she wanted the computer on her side of the bed. 
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02-06-2020, 04:19 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Location: Limerick
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Fiberglass
Plastic
Fiber optics
Nanotechnology
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02-06-2020, 05:17 PM
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Dryer sheet wannabe
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The zipper
Sunscreen
Seedlless grapes
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02-07-2020, 06:53 AM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
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Two ply toilet paper.
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02-07-2020, 07:37 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by MRG
Can you imagine if a MD was transported from 1920 to 2020?
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I remember one episode of the radio program Gunsmoke, where Doc said to Marshall Dillon, (paraphrasing) I don't know if he's going to make it, he's lost a lot of blood, I just wish there was a way to replace the blood he has lost. Maybe someday!
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02-07-2020, 01:59 PM
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Recycles dryer sheets
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An older neighbor of mine from 35 years ago told me the greatest invention he saw was the furnace thermostat. It really got me thinking about things I took for granted, having always woken up to a consistently warm house. Of course in my lifetime it wasn't until my teen years that our house got A/C, that we'd only run during the most hottest weeks of the summer. Now I run it summer long, mostly to keep pollen out (although I don't recall people talking about allergies in my youth), and I would never consider a South Carolina beach vacation in July or August without it.
Having navigated Paris, with it's one way streets, using only printed mapquest directions, still a step above maps, I greatly appreciate GPS when driving in foreign countries. The combination of being in unfamiliar locations as well as trying to match street signage names in a foreign language created frequent stops to reorient and to reset my stress levels. GPS is a game changer when driving in a foreign country - especially in Greece where the cyrillic alphabet also comes into play.
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02-07-2020, 03:36 PM
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Recycles dryer sheets
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The cordless drill.
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02-07-2020, 04:11 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Although more than 100 years old, I think this has come a very long way in 100 years...
Anesthesia
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02-07-2020, 05:55 PM
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Dryer sheet aficionado
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Transistor - (which leads to computers/internet/smartphones)
Blockchain - (which MAY lead to distributed databases/contracts)
DNA - (not actually invented, but actually the knowledge about it and leads to CRISPR)
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