Could you pre-invent an invention?

IrishSerf

Tell me how vain and smart you are!

Suppose you could travel back in time and you had the chance to create a famous invention before the accredited person had the oppurtunity, what COULD you invent? ie could you make a lightbulb before Edison, or build a telescope, create the internet, telephone, penicillion etc.?

Keep in mind that you have to be able to do this now so you are just bringing back your skills and reaping the patent rewards later.

I can make a battery so whoever actually invented it is now forgotten and I'm famous.

Overheal

I had an idea a few weeks ago for a laptop battery that can be charged without a laptop.

Some ****ing laptop company already has one out. Either it was a subliminal idea or a startling coincidence. ****ers with their fancy team of engineers.

That_Guy

I'd make the condom. The only way I'll ever get laid when I'm testing it on my subjects.

Lu Tze

The Wheel. I'm pretty sure i know how one of those works

Midnight_EG

That_Guy wrote: »

I'd make the condom. The only way I'll ever get laid when I'm testing it on my subjects.

I'd make 'The Pill'

bm365

I'd actually be quite happy just inventing the time machine

stovelid

Electronic voting machines.

mukki

stovelid wrote: »

Electronic voting machines.

i'd invent storage for electronic voting machines

That_Guy

Midnight_EG wrote: »

I'd make 'The Pill'

If you're a wimmenz then we should get married.

tbaymusicman

I'd go back and invent boards.ie and choose my own mods muhahaha:D:D

That_Guy

tbaymusicman wrote: »

I'd go back and invent boards.ie and choose my own mods muhahaha:D:D

Who would you choose?

Oooooh controversial.

tbaymusicman

That_Guy wrote: »

Who would you choose?

Oooooh controversial.

No way am i even getting into that discussion haha i get band enough without going looking for it haha i blame the soccer forum i cant help get passionate and if honest slightly rude:P:P

Interceptor

IrishSerf wrote: »

Tell me how smart you are!

If you have a time machine and travel back, you will see that the people who became rich and famous as a result of most inventions were not the actual inventors, but the person who figured out how best to market it.

Edison was a slave driver and it took him almost TEN years to get the lightbulb right. Electricity was not in common use but he knew that he had the killer app once he started working on the bulb and he concentrated on electricity supply to make the real money.

I'd go back to the late seventies and start gathering all the stuff that Microsoft acquired/stole in order to produce MSWindows. DOS, GUI's and all the apps which other companies invented which became MSOffice. Then I'd own you all... MMMUUUUUWWWWAAAHAAAHHAA

'cptr

El Siglo

The Pneumatic Tyre (i.e. tyres that you inflate with air), very simple and easy to manufacture.:D

antodeco

Id go back and make babies. I think Im alright at it by now.

numanuma

I had the idea for wireless electricity using resonance.

demakinz

sliced bread how hard was that! and people havnt stopped talking about it since!id be famous

or id go back and and invent playboy.that man(the hef) must of done a deal with the devil.

Sea Sharp

I'd go back to 1400 and make a gun. Then I'd take over Europe and really feck up history.

Imagine this against an army of gobsh1tes with swords.

Oh yeah!!!!

Lu Tze

I would go back and invent Jesus. I would play the role with more fire and brimstone though

minidazzler

Fcuk inventing something, I'd go back and be Ghengis Khan and pwn everyone. Dude had like 200 wives and fcuked left right and centre. He killed more people a week than the Holocaust did. He is bad ass.

rubadub

IrishSerf wrote: »

ie could you make a lightbulb before Edison

Edison didn't invent it, just took existing ones and improved them a bit.

As well as what invention would you pick, what would you rename it? I would rename beer "aggro juice"

ejmaztec

minidazzler wrote: »

Fcuk inventing something, I'd go back and be Ghengis Khan and pwn everyone. Dude had like 200 wives and fcuked left right and centre. He killed more people a week than the Holocaust did. He is bad ass.

The big downside is that you'd be feckin long dead.:eek:

Prof.Badass

I'd invent vodka, but infuse it with hemp and coffee.