Sept 5, 2010: Frozen Margarita Machine
 

August was National Inventors Month. Smithsonian.Com, in honor of the event, chose the top 10 inventions from their extensive National Museum of American History’s Collections.

Of course they've got the light bulb, telephone, blah blah blah, but coming in at #10... tah tah tah taaaaaah!

What was that?
French horns.

http://cellar.org/2010/margarita.jpg

Electric motor
Light bulb
Radio
Telephone
Refrigerator
Automobile
Penicillin
Elevator
Centrifugal pump
Vaccine
Dynamite
Margarita Machine - FAIL

How insulting. They couldn't come up with something a little more important? I'm glad they aren't wasting my money buying dumb artifacts.

Oh wait.. They are aren't they!!:mad:

Wow, you're complaining about funding a museum? Just because you don't find it important to history does not mean it isn't or will be. Thousands of years down the road something as unimportant as a margarita machine can give a lot of insight into our current world to the future inhabitants. Also, you have no idea if they bought or were donated the machine, you're just jumping the gun to complain.


Disclaimer: I think they are very important, thank you Senior Martinez

Srsly. Especially as without that machine there'd probably be no such thing as slushies so Spuck would be unemployed because there'd be no 7/11s

I had the idea that the transistor or integrated circuit board should be on the list.

But, if I'm drinking margaritas right then, . . . ;)

Spuck, what would you say about a museum buy an artist work of art ?

Said work consisting in shitting in a tin can, sealing it, sterilizing it and then selling it to the museum for a nice pile of money....

Most of the stuff in the Smithsonian is donated by the owner, or bought from the owner by a private party and donated. Money provide to the Smithsonian by the feds is more than matched by private donations.
After all, Spuck, they've got your Archie Bunker's chair.:p:

According to WikiP, machines to produce frozen beverages were invented in the late 1950s, and Slurpees were branded in 1967, so this isn't even an industry first. Lame.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slurpee

Is it just me or does that machine look like a drunk, black, bonk-eyed UPS delivery man?

On that list, the Frozen Margarita machine is teh lame.

Oh, and very few things on that list exist without transistors and/or ICs. Just saying.

I'm waiting for the shit to fly over this. If I'd said it, I'd be covered in shit right now.

:corn:

Only the radio, as far as I can tell.

From the link at Smithsonian.com...

so not only is it an imposter, it's a rip-off.

Well put!! ^^^ Exactly right. :D