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I think what's also cool about this page is that the MINI was #2. The Turing Machine barely beat out the MINI, 18% to 17%. http://www.topbritishinnovations.org
by Bud 14y ago
I think what's also cool about this page is that the MINI was #2. The Turing Machine barely beat out the MINI, 18% to 17%.
http://www.topbritishinnovations.org/PastInnovations/BMCMini.aspx http://www.topbritishinnovations.org/PastInnovations/BMCMini...
- notahacker 14y agoIt looks like a poll hijacked by Mini and steam train enthusiast groups. The Mini and Mallard were nice pieces of engineering, but you'd have to be a pretty hardcore fan to place them on a pedestal above the jet engine or medicinal use of penicillin or decoding DNA (or even relatively mundane things like radar and ultrasound) as significant examples of innovation.
- Bud 14y agoI would have to reluctantly grant this point. ;) Although they did make a fairly good case that the MINI did contain some innovations which were significant at least within the auto industry. (Disclaimer: I sure do like my MINI.) I think Tim Berners-Lee should have ranked higher, too, btw.