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Asked by anon-336005 on 9 Oct 2022. This question was also asked by anon-336429.
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Justin Perry answered on 9 Oct 2022:
Not my invention but….
When I was at secondary school (back in the 1980s), computers had only just become something a family could own, and my parents bought one. I thought it was amazing… I used it to help me with my homework and to play games… a lot of games. Those computers were very simple- they only worked in black and white, everything had to be typed in (no mouse or touch screen) and the thing forgot absolutely everything when you turned it off so you had to load on any programmes you wanted to use every time from scratch and that took 5-10 minutes easily.
The computers I use for science now which are massively better. They are so fast they can take measurements from an experiment thousands of times a second or interpret a photograph automatically or even help me find information online rather than in a book deep in a library. So computers are my favourite invention for sure.My own favourite invention: I invented a piece of chemistry which is now in the recent edition of the textbook I used as a student. It’s a very specific not terribly useful reaction but the fact it’s in that book is great.
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Hugh Birkmyre answered on 10 Oct 2022:
Every invention is always based on something else. To invent computers, we had to have electricity. To invent the telescope, we had to have glass. To make bronze, we had to invent fire first. I like seeing the connections, how everything fits together, far more than any one invention.
That being said, I am glad on wet mornings that the car exists and I don’t have to walk to work. -
Dan Day answered on 11 Oct 2022:
I’m torn between kettle and toaster. How did people live without them?! haha
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