General Chat

A smart phone. It is a camera, a phone and a computer all rolled into one. It would blow their minds!!!!!

It does mine :-D

birth control with out having so many children
i believe many ancestry would of lead a better life
with out so many mouth to feed.

and many would of not died giving birth and leveing
many children to defend for them self or having to face the work house

Or better observational skills to start with??? :-)

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.

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

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



:-D

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.

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.

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.

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

lol Malcolm you know me so well


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

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

SHOES come first :-D :-D

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

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

apart from shoes more shoes and more shoes


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

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

Dishwasher without a doubt

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.

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