Technological game changers

[Jonzjob]

For me a game changer was a couple of years back when I kicked Microsaft into touch and went Mac!!!

Microwave ovens? Did you know that if you put a potatoe in one and zap it for 20 mins you will have a very hard stone

Great for defrosting bread though :mrgreen:

 

[Shrubby]

Just a few spring to mind;
Sewage collection/drinking water - Joseph bazalgette
The printing press/moveable type
Iron and steel production - Bessemer process
the Jacquard loom - first programmable machine
Brewing
Matt

 

[monkeybiter]

the Jacquard loom - first programmable machine

About 950 years too late, see the automatic flute http://historymesh.com/object/automatic-flute-player/?story=automatons

Wow! Certainly surprised me.

 

[mailee]

Man landing on the Moon....EG NASA. All of the modern technology we have nowadays really stems from this. It is not just the electronics but also things like the heat resistant tiles, seating, lubrication, almost most things we take for granted now. :wink:

 

[Phil Pascoe]

:shock: Seating??? ..hell, I didn't realise no one sat down before 1969! Or greased anything, come to that.

 

[JakeS]

:shock: Seating??? ..hell, I didn't realise no one sat down before 1969!

It's not really the case, that's why.

I mean, Apollo had been flying rockets since 1968, if nothing else, but the technology behind it was all tried out on earlier programmes. IIRC seats were developed for Gemini, which first flew in 1965 - and of course, the actual inventing had to have happened well in advance, probably sometime in the early sixties. That's why, in the photos of the control centre for the moon landings, you can see people sat down!

 

[Richard T]

The plough.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgOp-nz3lHg

Fantastic series this; was on telly when I was 10. Glad to see it all on line now.

If you have the spare nine odd hours I thoroughly recommend it.