What Was The Most Important Invention In The Past 50 Years?

You are splitting hairs @Beth Gallagher. DNA may not have been an invention in the true sense of the word .. but it was an significant scientific innovation.

 

Just trying to keep the thread on topic.

 

I guess the smartphone. It's a combination of so many great inventions now stored into one easy to carry device.

 

Accepted. So admin should there not be a separate topic for this DNA post plus inventions and innovations in general?

 

Start a new thread.

 

In what forum?

 

This invention/innovation moved women away from the restrictive Victorian era in more ways that one.

Sydney woman Myra Juliet Taylor (nee Welsh) received an Australian patent in 1911 for a new form of corset that provided support without painful stays. The boneless corset was born. So revolutionary was the new corset she later sold them around the world.

 

Did these contraptions ever take off in America?

They are called the Hills Rotary Hoist clothes line and were built and marketed by Sydney engineer Merv Richardson in the late 40s.The idea tho was not his but an Australian WW1 soldier by the name of Gilbert Toyne whose business first designed, patented then sold four rotary hoist varieties prior to the Great War.

 

Once being an undergarment, it is now more clothes than most young women wear to the grocery store.

 

You're so right, Beth! It's a discovery and a development.

Hal

 

@Craig Swanson
I saw them often when still a child. Over the years, many municipalities, however, passed ordinances forbidding the hanging out of washed clothing to dry. My niece was threatened with a citation! I regard such overbearing interference with normal functions of our lives to be unacceptable, and would never live under such jurisdiction.
Frank

 

What is this nonsense @Frank Sanoica?

It appears there are still some members not happy when Ken.. as I understand it.. has approved my posts. I am happy to move them elsewhere.

These two inventions were significant aviation safety game changers.. the inflatable airplane escape chute and the black box flite recorder.There is some conjecture over just who invented the chute.. was it American James F Boyle in 1954 or Australian Qantas pilot James Grant in 1965.

There is no doubt as to the inventor of the black-box flite recorder. In 1957 Australian Dr David Warren built the first prototype of the modern flite recorder and in 1967 Australia became the first country to make the installation of both data and voice recorders mandatory in major aircraft.

 

It's not nonsense at all and Frank's post had zero to do with what Ken approved. There are some neighborhood HOAs that have rules prohibiting clotheslines.

 

So @Beth Gallagher fill me in with exactly what Ken approved. I dont wanna cause waves.