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Posted: 9/8/2010 6:20:48 AM EDT

[#1]

Knives and axes.

They may have been made from stone, but they were the first tools, and are still used today in some form.

Posted: 9/8/2010 6:21:13 AM EDT

[#2]

M-2 .50 MG

Posted: 9/8/2010 6:28:45 AM EDT

[#3]

Army shelter half, even though it's better used in combination with 550 cord as a hammock.

Posted: 9/8/2010 6:37:17 AM EDT

[#4]

Books
Axe
Knife
Wheel
Club
2 sticks (fire)
Hats
Sandals
Boots
Hammer & nail
Saw
Spoon
Fork
Bowl
Socks
Signs
Dildo
Bricks
Water wheel- modern hydro power
Windmill
Arches
4 sided dwellings
Mathematics

Posted: 9/8/2010 6:37:58 AM EDT

[#5]

Quoted:

Quoted:
paperclips

Ahem.

http://www.sowpr.com/catalog/images/binderclip.jpg

paperclips are cheaper

Posted: 9/8/2010 6:40:59 AM EDT

[#6]

The 1911.

Posted: 9/8/2010 6:41:43 AM EDT

[#7]

Chopsticks.

The Spoon.

1911

...
Glock

Posted: 9/8/2010 6:41:52 AM EDT

[#8]

back when I was in IB, the old timers gauged your worth by your ability to jockey a 12C thru any scenario they could throw at you

Posted: 9/8/2010 6:43:51 AM EDT

[#9]

Quoted:

I have an HP 12C in my pocket right now!!!

I've heard that line before, cowboy.

Posted: 9/8/2010 6:45:13 AM EDT

[#10]

Quoted:
I can. I give you the HP 12C financial calculator. First made is 1981 and still in production and in demand.

Financial guys still use these all the time. And I am useless w/o mine.

http://sliderule.mraiow.com/w/images/5/50/Hewlett_Packard_HP-12C_obverse.jpg

http://sliderule.mraiow.com/wiki/Hewlett_Packard_HP-12C

The HP-12C financial calculator was introduced in 1981, and is the only one of the popular Voyager series of calculators to stand the test of time. Currently there are three major variations of this calculator, including the HP-12C Platinum and the HP-12C Platinum 25th Anniversary Edition. The 12C is the only purely RPN calculator still sold by HP; the other calculators that support RPN also support semialgebraic entry as an optional setting.

Financial stuff baffles me. How can someone take the wonderful set of mathematical knowledge we humans derived over the last 4000 years and make these weird compound interest and sinking fund thingies is beyond me. I'm sure no good will come of it. Money is the root of all evil, after all. Anyway, for the times I get confused, there is a nice little cheat-sheet on the reverse side.

Low-power design permits the calculator to go 6-12 months between changes of standard, store-bought, button batteries. No more worrying about replacing that darned custom battery pack!

Absolutely.........I bought my last HP 12C in a pawn shop, for $7. No one knew how to use it since they could not find an "=" key. I love it for just the same reason, as no one will borrow it. And of course everyone thinks you're pulling their leg by using the term "reverse Polish notation".

Posted: 9/8/2010 6:54:15 AM EDT

[#11]

I am surpirsed that no one mentioned the automobile.

Posted: 9/8/2010 7:00:34 AM EDT

[#12]

Quoted:
Army shelter half, even though it's better used in combination with 550 cord as a hammock.

That I'd love to see a picture of.

Posted: 9/8/2010 7:07:49 AM EDT

[#13]

Quoted:

I can. I give you the HP 12C financial calculator. First made is 1981 and still in production and in demand.

Financial guys still use these all the time. And I am useless w/o mine.

I still got one and use it all the time. I sold my HP-16C, the programmer's model on eBay to raise some bucks.

Posted: 9/8/2010 7:11:42 AM EDT

[#14]

Posted: 9/8/2010 7:14:47 AM EDT

[#15]

First thing I thought of was... Hammer

Posted: 9/8/2010 7:22:55 AM EDT

[#16]

Quoted:

Quoted:
Army shelter half, even though it's better used in combination with 550 cord as a hammock.

That I'd love to see a picture of.

Found this, but had a 225 lbs/6'4" Army buddy that made his with just 550 cord tied around rocks folded into the shelter half at the triangle ends.

http://www.survivalistboards.com/showthread.php?t=118698

Posted: 9/8/2010 7:25:38 AM EDT

[#17]

I have a 12C on in my bag - but it keeps eating batteries. That said, I wish I still had my 15 scientific - but it was stolen 2 decades ago.

Posted: 9/8/2010 7:26:38 AM EDT

[#18]

Paper clips.

Posted: 9/8/2010 7:27:20 AM EDT

[#19]

AK74. I bought one ten years ago and it's STILL my favorite rifle, even though I now have a variety of modern semi-autos.

The Soviets issued it thirty years ago and still use the same rifle as general issue.

Posted: 9/8/2010 7:28:15 AM EDT

[#20]

This will company will STILL be around another 100 years:

and

Posted: 9/8/2010 7:28:19 AM EDT

[#21]

Quoted:
The fork.
Swiss army knife. 1800 year old Roman version:
http://kickthemallout.com/images/Photos/1800YearOldSwissArmyKnife.jpg

That is so cool.

Posted: 9/8/2010 7:28:55 AM EDT

[#22]

chewing gum
cigarettes
q-tips
paper
alarm clocks
mcdonald's breakfast

Posted: 9/8/2010 7:29:40 AM EDT

[#23]

The axe.

Posted: 9/8/2010 7:33:17 AM EDT

[#24]

belt drive

Posted: 9/8/2010 7:35:34 AM EDT

[#25]

Quoted:
This will company will STILL be around another 100 years:

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4080/4757476497_93ca0bf143.jpg

Truth.

Early 20th century design, engineering, and thinking in 2110.

Posted: 9/8/2010 7:38:03 AM EDT

[#26]

On a semi-serious note, I'm SURPRISED no one has appeared to mention the friggin' WHEEL!!

Posted: 9/8/2010 7:39:52 AM EDT

[#27]

Quoted:
On a semi-serious note, I'm SURPRISED no one has appeared to mention the friggin' WHEEL!!

page one champ

Posted: 9/8/2010 7:49:26 AM EDT

[#28]

Bow. been killing game and people for eons.

Posted: 9/8/2010 7:54:16 AM EDT

[#29]

Posted: 9/8/2010 7:54:26 AM EDT

[#30]

Leg bone of an animal; killing everything since 3 million BC.

[ insert picture of Moonwatcher smashing a pile of bones with his new tool ]

Posted: 9/8/2010 7:55:17 AM EDT

[#31]

Quoted:

Quoted:
On a semi-serious note, I'm SURPRISED no one has appeared to mention the friggin' WHEEL!!

page one champ

Oops!!

Posted: 9/8/2010 7:58:57 AM EDT

[#32]

Quoted:
I can. I give you the HP 12C financial calculator. First made is 1981 and still in production and in demand.

Financial guys still use these all the time. And I am useless w/o mine.

http://sliderule.mraiow.com/w/images/5/50/Hewlett_Packard_HP-12C_obverse.jpg

http://sliderule.mraiow.com/wiki/Hewlett_Packard_HP-12C

The HP-12C financial calculator was introduced in 1981, and is the only one of the popular Voyager series of calculators to stand the test of time. Currently there are three major variations of this calculator, including the HP-12C Platinum and the HP-12C Platinum 25th Anniversary Edition. The 12C is the only purely RPN calculator still sold by HP; the other calculators that support RPN also support semialgebraic entry as an optional setting.

Financial stuff baffles me. How can someone take the wonderful set of mathematical knowledge we humans derived over the last 4000 years and make these weird compound interest and sinking fund thingies is beyond me. I'm sure no good will come of it. Money is the root of all evil, after all. Anyway, for the times I get confused, there is a nice little cheat-sheet on the reverse side.

Low-power design permits the calculator to go 6-12 months between changes of standard, store-bought, button batteries. No more worrying about replacing that darned custom battery pack!

I have & use one of those.

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Posted: 9/8/2010 7:59:18 AM EDT

[#33]

Plumb bob

Posted: 9/8/2010 7:59:50 AM EDT

[#34]

Fire.

Posted: 9/8/2010 8:01:53 AM EDT

[#35]

Jewlrey.

Posted: 9/8/2010 8:02:31 AM EDT

[#36]

the anvil

Posted: 9/8/2010 8:04:17 AM EDT

[#37]

Quoted:
Fire.

More precisely, the ability to make it.

Posted: 9/8/2010 8:07:37 AM EDT

[#38]

Edited because everyone had most of them.

Matches & Candles

Posted: 9/8/2010 8:08:13 AM EDT

[#39]

AK-47

Posted: 9/8/2010 8:10:36 AM EDT

[#40]

A watch or simple timepiece

Posted: 9/8/2010 8:13:44 AM EDT

[#41]

Telescopes and microscopes are still popular after hundreds of years in existence.

Steam engines and water wheels.

Electricity and the induction motor.

Posted: 9/8/2010 8:15:02 AM EDT

[#42]

Paper..

Posted: 9/8/2010 8:15:19 AM EDT

[#43]

Small block chevy v8.

Posted: 9/8/2010 8:15:42 AM EDT

[#44]

How about a spear... Afterall, an arrow is just a really small spear with wings that moves very fast.

Posted: 9/8/2010 8:16:54 AM EDT

[#45]

Quoted:
A billy club––you can't beat a good piece of hickory. Simple, yet remarkably elegant.

I don't know, I have it on good authority that a D-cell MagLite works pretty well, and produces a definitive sound, as well.

Posted: 9/8/2010 8:22:03 AM EDT

[#46]

Really no one is going to say the mosetrap? I mean it is the def. of tech that has withstood the test of time.

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Posted: 9/8/2010 8:22:32 AM EDT

[#47]

4 stroke, internal combustion engine. While everything on cars and trucks has been refined/computerized, the basic concept of a 4 stroke gas engine hasn't changed from the late 19th century. Intake, compression, combustion, exhaust. Arguably, the most important invention in human history.

Posted: 9/8/2010 8:27:07 AM EDT

[#48]

30-06
Turning cover into concealment for over 100 years

M-2, need I say more

And Codeine
I only say that because I have a kidney stone I am trying to pass
Those that know understand