http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2007/06/07/hospital-has-blood-bank/ Yesterday's tomorrow, today. Tue, 02 Dec 2008 21:31:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2007/06/07/hospital-has-blood-bank/#comment-1018303 NikFromNYC Sun, 13 Jan 2008 08:41:55 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2007/06/07/hospital-has-blood-bank/#comment-1018303 From what I can ascertain from this site, EVERYTHING of our "modern age" was invented in the swinging 30s, BEFORE the so-called technological wonder of WWII. Wow. Not the refrigerator, or telegraph, or telephone, or phonograph, or the train, or antibiotics, or Relativity, or the discovery of the electron, or the airplane. That was all 1895–1912. But 1932 was just like 1992, when the computer became "real" and pocket music players appeared on the scene along with real answering machines, and crucially, digital watches, I mean CALCULATORS (to replace Rolex watches that had vernier scale SLIDE-RULES, and every factory had encyclopedias of Sine/Cosign/Arctangent Tables in bound books). So far, the stoplight trumps most of the other '30's inventions, but what about the tassled MINI skirt?! From what I can ascertain from this site, EVERYTHING of our “modern age” was invented in the swinging 30s, BEFORE the so-called technological wonder of WWII. Wow. Not the refrigerator, or telegraph, or telephone, or phonograph, or the train, or antibiotics, or Relativity, or the discovery of the electron, or the airplane. That was all 1895–1912. But 1932 was just like 1992, when the computer became “real” and pocket music players appeared on the scene along with real answering machines, and crucially, digital watches, I mean CALCULATORS (to replace Rolex watches that had vernier scale SLIDE-RULES, and every factory had encyclopedias of Sine/Cosign/Arctangent Tables in bound books). So far, the stoplight trumps most of the other ’30’s inventions, but what about the tassled MINI skirt?!

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