[PW] Re: What Are The Greatest Inventions Of All Time?

[Bob Boyce]

Michael--

 The bicycle! Requires no fuel, uses no resources except human ones, speeds ordinary human travel by factors of 5 to 8, easily maintained, aids in human health, can be used to transport small or large loads, produces no pollution, usable by people from 5 to 105, produces joy, use is easily taught and once learned is remembered all your life.
  Most widely used means of transportation on the planet.
  Need more reasons? Silent. Elegant.

 Bob Boyce
Reference Department, Lincoln NE City Libraries
r.boyce at LincolnLibraries.org
Biking to work daily without a collision for 33 years.

---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: Michael Hart <hart at pglaf.org>
Reply-To: list at project-wombat.org, "Michael S. Hart" <hart at pobox.com>
Date:  Tue, 24 Oct 2006 12:48:58 -0700 (PDT)


>From the lever, to language, to agriculture,
from The Gutenberg Press to Industrial Revolution,
from the steam engine to electric motor to internal combustion,
from electronics to atomics to whatever you think. . . .

I would like to hear them all.

Thank You!!!

Michael S. Hart
Founder of Project Gutenberg
Sponsor of W0mbatics

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