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What invention would you show to your ancestor?
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DazedConfused | Report | 2 Dec 2014 15:40 |
A smart phone. It is a camera, a phone and a computer all rolled into one. It would blow their minds!!!!! |
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Dame*Shelly*("\(*o*)/") | Report | 2 Dec 2014 12:30 |
birth control with out having so many children |
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+++DetEcTive+++ | Report | 2 Dec 2014 12:00 |
Or better observational skills to start with??? :-) |
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RolloTheRed | Report | 2 Dec 2014 11:17 |
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. |
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Dermot | Report | 2 Dec 2014 09:12 |
And which vital piece of computer component was invented by our Ancestors? |
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LadyScozz | Report | 2 Dec 2014 08:59 |
amazed that nobody has said COMPUTERS!.... except for Det, because you need a computer to use skype (don't you?) |
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RolloTheRed | Report | 1 Dec 2014 23:55 |
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. |
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LadyScozz | Report | 1 Dec 2014 23:37 |
either an automatic washing machine or a microwave. |
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+++DetEcTive+++ | Report | 1 Dec 2014 20:53 |
It's difficult to choose just one thing. |
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Island | Report | 1 Dec 2014 19:56 |
What's books coming after boots got to do with the price of eggs? :-S :-S :-S |
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JoyBoroAngel | Report | 1 Dec 2014 19:48 |
lol Malcolm you know me so well |
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MR_MAGOO | Report | 1 Dec 2014 19:47 |
JoyImeldaMarcos............ :-D :-D :-D |
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JoyBoroAngel | Report | 1 Dec 2014 19:45 |
SHOES come first :-D :-D |
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MR_MAGOO | Report | 1 Dec 2014 19:44 |
Joy..................Shoo doop shooby doo - Shoo doop shooby doo - Shoo doop shooby doo..................... :-D :-D :-D |
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eRRolSheep | Report | 1 Dec 2014 19:37 |
Ms AnglyJoyousSmallTown surely books come after boots but of course you know that |
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JoyBoroAngel | Report | 1 Dec 2014 19:24 |
apart from shoes more shoes and more shoes |
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eRRolSheep | Report | 1 Dec 2014 19:19 |
Without the power of a book and the ability to read we would have nothing. |
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ChrisofWessex | Report | 1 Dec 2014 18:47 |
Dishwasher without a doubt |
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RolloTheRed | Report | 1 Dec 2014 18:21 |
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. |
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Graham | Report | 1 Dec 2014 18:03 |
I would show them a combine harvester and say "this is what is going to put all your labourers out of work". |