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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #82395 on: September 30, 2014, 05:07:50 pm »
Quote from: Furtuka on September 30, 2014, 05:00:05 pm
I need to research an inventor for a discussion tomorrow, and I have no idea who to pick. I can't come up with anything that isn't too obvious/generic.
William Murdoch?
Hero of Alexandria?
Emmett Brown?
Wernher von Braun?

Gilbert Toyne (inventor of the rotary washing line, and only that. Not an interesting invention but he was pretty interesting himself)?
Jean Lenoir/Nikolaus Otto for the combustion engine?
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #82396 on: September 30, 2014, 05:10:49 pm »
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I need to research an inventor for a discussion tomorrow, and I have no idea who to pick. I can't come up with anything that isn't too obvious/generic.
William Murdoch?
Hero of Alexandria?
Emmett Brown?
Wernher von Braun?
Steve Jobs?
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #82397 on: September 30, 2014, 05:18:43 pm »
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I need to research an inventor for a discussion tomorrow, and I have no idea who to pick. I can't come up with anything that isn't too obvious/generic.
William Murdoch?
Hero of Alexandria?
Emmett Brown?
Wernher von Braun?
Steve Jobs?

Alan Turing? Maybe one of the Ancient Greek people?
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #82398 on: September 30, 2014, 05:20:17 pm »
There's also the Chinese inventors, but their accounts tend to be apocryphal.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #82399 on: September 30, 2014, 05:22:03 pm »
Quote from: Objective on September 30, 2014, 05:20:17 pm
There's also the Chinese inventors, but their accounts tend to be apocryphal.
I know of very few Chinese inventions, to be honest. Paper, explosives, rockets, complex models of orbital motions and stuff.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #82400 on: September 30, 2014, 05:22:16 pm »
Quote from: Arcvasti on September 30, 2014, 05:18:43 pm
Quote from: McDonald on September 30, 2014, 05:10:49 pm
Quote from: Graknorke on September 30, 2014, 05:07:50 pm
Quote from: Furtuka on September 30, 2014, 05:00:05 pm
I need to research an inventor for a discussion tomorrow, and I have no idea who to pick. I can't come up with anything that isn't too obvious/generic.
William Murdoch?
Hero of Alexandria?
Emmett Brown?
Wernher von Braun?
Steve Jobs?

Alan Turing? Maybe one of the Ancient Greek people?
Maybe this could give you a variety of picks! O___O
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #82401 on: September 30, 2014, 05:33:32 pm »
Quote from: Furtuka on September 30, 2014, 05:00:05 pm
I need to research an inventor for a discussion tomorrow, and I have no idea who to pick. I can't come up with anything that isn't too obvious/generic.
Ada Lovelace!
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #82402 on: September 30, 2014, 05:42:04 pm »
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I need to research an inventor for a discussion tomorrow, and I have no idea who to pick. I can't come up with anything that isn't too obvious/generic.
Ada Lovelace!
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #82403 on: September 30, 2014, 05:42:59 pm »
Everyone knows who Tesla is. The founder of computer programming could use more love.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #82404 on: September 30, 2014, 05:48:19 pm »
Not everyone knows what he invented though



Ahem
Ac electricity generator
A wireless charging tower that works for whole cities (giant tesla coil)
A junebug powered pinwheel (childhood invention)
Half of Edison's stuff
Halogen light bulbs
Many many many more things
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #82405 on: September 30, 2014, 05:50:33 pm »
Alexander the Great was awesome.

He was a gay egomaniac who named dozens of cities "Alexandria", after himself.

+1 Ada.

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Also Ernest Rutherford, if you like physics. Edmund Hillary was pretty awesome. He climbed a mountain or something, I forget.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #82406 on: September 30, 2014, 06:11:27 pm »
Edison, so you can shit all over him. :D
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #82407 on: September 30, 2014, 06:37:33 pm »
It hurts when I breathe inwards. Think I strained my intercostal muscles or something.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #82408 on: September 30, 2014, 07:26:50 pm »
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Edison, so you can shit all over him. :D
Edison was the biggest of dicks. Tesla was BEST
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #82409 on: September 30, 2014, 07:35:30 pm »
For literature, I did short answer #6 but I didn't write it on the answer sheet -.-

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