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Dear All

Hello

Hope you are doing well.


I think most of us who are doing research have a favourite ancestor.

If you could, what invention or item (that we all take for granted now)
would you tell them about?


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Elizabeth,
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The automatic washing machine.

Surely, it's the one device that would have saved our ancestors very many hours of heavy drudgery every week.

I think they would be astounded to see their laundry spun around in water, emerging spotless some time later :-D

lavender - I hate to dampen your enthusiasm.

In the warmth of the summer sun, it sickens me greatly to be corralled in a bus with some who evidently have no regular relationship with water either in the shower/bath or whirling in the washing machine.

Our ancestors were never like this - they had a slice of cleanliness with them.

Pew!

I would show them a combine harvester and say "this is what is going to put all your labourers out of work".

Well when you look at the census details there are often two or three extra non related people. Their main purpose seems to have been to do the washing, cooking etc. My ancestor would def. have been very impressed indeed with the reduced labour bill and liberated space. I doubt he would have gone so far as to use a washing machine himself.

As a lawyer though I think he would be most impressed with the fees currently levied by lawyers As the new fee system may not qualify as an invention I would give him a mobile phone as he was a great fan of the 1d post in 1840.

Dishwasher without a doubt

Without the power of a book and the ability to read we would have nothing.

apart from shoes more shoes and more shoes


I agree with Chris a dishwasher :-D :-D :-D

Ms AnglyJoyousSmallTown surely books come after boots but of course you know that

Joy..................Shoo doop shooby doo - Shoo doop shooby doo - Shoo doop shooby doo..................... :-D :-D :-D

SHOES come first :-D :-D

JoyImeldaMarcos............ :-D :-D :-D

lol Malcolm you know me so well


as for books I can pay some body else to read to me :-D :-D

What's books coming after boots got to do with the price of eggs? :-S :-S :-S

It's difficult to choose just one thing.

Possibly Skype - being able to talk to someone face to face even though they are the other side of the world.

either an automatic washing machine or a microwave.

I think both my grannies would be amazed...... and one of them would have been frightened of the microwave.

My granny was born in C19. She was certainly not afraid of her auto washing machine. She thought the best C20 inventions were nylons and colour TV. New in England 1944 were US GIs and she tried hard to snag one for her daughters. Sadly he was killed in St Lo but we still have his Zippo lighter another great invention.

amazed that nobody has said COMPUTERS!.... except for Det, because you need a computer to use skype (don't you?)



:-D

And which vital piece of computer component was invented by our Ancestors?

Think on this. 4 000 years ago the druids could compute the rising and setting of the sun through the year, the phases of the moon, eclipses and the apparent movement in the sky of the major stars.

Armed only with their computer and not using google etc can anybody on GRU manage the same ?

No? , then obviously they had better computers.