2007-01-14 16:14:35 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Quotations
it's applicable to virtually everything that has been discovered in the past 100 or so years.
Benjamin Franklin would not have "discovered" electricity without the invention of the kite.
The theory of evolution may have lied in wait for years and years and years if Darwin had not studied the galapagos islands (the animals being the tools)
our knowledge of cellular structures, and modern medicine in general, would be nothing without the electron microscope.
2007-01-14 16:28:23 · answer #1 · answered by show and tell 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
many great discoveries lie in wait for the tool needed to make them
Relax it is a "typo" he means "tools' and he is correct.
Well the telescope: lens grinding out of glass
The steam engine: pipes and tanks that could be sealed under great air pressure
the air plane: a light weight gasoline engine
the nature of life: the microscope
radioactivity: the development of simple photographic film
I know there are more, it's late, cold here in Colorado
Good Question!
A+
Do watch the spelling!
2007-01-15 01:07:32 · answer #2 · answered by cruisingyeti 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What the heck is a toold ?
But otherwise , the discoveries are 'LYING IN WAIT'
Which means we do not know what they are , so we can't give you an example . . . sorry !
2007-01-15 00:24:43 · answer #3 · answered by kate 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nuclear power could not be harnassed until a particle smasher was developed.
2007-01-15 00:25:42 · answer #4 · answered by el_cid_el_bivar 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋