I am sure we can construct a long list of similar items. How about a battery? Was possible as soon as metal was discovered. It would not surprise me to find out that people from long ago were using processes that included battery activity in some form.
Dave -----Original Message----- From: Eric Walker <[email protected]> To: vortex-l <[email protected]> Sent: Sun, Apr 21, 2013 9:28 pm Subject: Re: [Vo]:NASA screws up bad. On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 6:15 PM, David Roberson <[email protected]> wrote: Many of the great discoveries were there in plain view for years until someone got lucky. My favorite example is the laser which could have been discovered over 100 years ago (gas type instead of ruby rod) had physics known more about the behavior of atoms. Whitehead suggests that the Greeks were close to figuring out the steam engine. Eric
