• Question: what do you think was the best invention apart from an intergalactic nuclear missile!?????

    Asked by qwertyuiop to Andy, Bill, Grant, Kayleigh, Rain on 16 Mar 2012.
    • Photo: Andrew Hearn

      Andrew Hearn answered on 16 Mar 2012:

      Computers. If we could actually build an Intergalactic Nuclear Missile, it would be much too hard without a computer…

    • Photo: Rain Irshad

      Rain Irshad answered on 16 Mar 2012:

      The invisible Aston Martin from that bond film.

    • Photo: Kayleigh Messer

      Kayleigh Messer answered on 19 Mar 2012:

      I’d have to say steam engines – they were pretty important in the industrial revolution and that changed agriculture, manufacturing, mining, transportation, and technology.

    • Photo: Grant Cairnie

      Grant Cairnie answered on 19 Mar 2012:

      The Aeroplane

    • Photo: Bill Price

      Bill Price answered on 22 Mar 2012:

      Well somewhere else we talked about the elevator (Mr Otis) in teh USA who began to make tall buildings feasible. The lifts in the Shard where I was yesterday – travel at 6metres per second. There are some in the world now that travel at 17m/s – so a bit faster…………….. See my new photos.

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  • Photo: Usaid

    Usaid commented on :

    I think the best invention is the humble transistor – without it we wouldn’t live in the Information Age. Transistors let electrical circuits process logic (make simple decisions).