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Top Ten Scientific Inventions/Innovations/Breakthroughs/Discoveries/Findings/Advances (Pick holes in that!)

According to The Science Museum
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/8091753.stm
*Steam engine
*V2 rocket engine
*Electric telegraph
*Stephenson's Rocket (No Relation i'm afraid)
*X-ray machine
*Model T Ford
*Penicillin
*Pilot ACE Computer
*DNA double helix
*Apollo 10 capsule

Whats missing or shouldn't be there
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Microsoft Windows isn't on the list? :lol:
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[sings] One of these things is not like the other, one of these thing doesn't belong here [/sing]

We invented the DNA double-helix? Spiffy :mrgreen:
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*tv remote
*birth control pills
*cordless tools

and on a serious note
*hadron collider
I have decided to produce and sell a strong alcoholic drink called "Responsibly".
That way everyone in the country can get wasted drinking Responsibly.
And all the other drinks makers will be advertising for me on their cans with the slogan "please drink Responsibly".
Probably will annoy the government as well.
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You forgot the Flux Capacitor! :mrgreen:
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What about fire, the wheel, and duct tape? :lol:
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Peanut butter!
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gun powder
beer
toilet paper

not necessarily in order of importance :lol:
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