Assignment task: Below are actions and ideas referred to in this course. Choose two and identify precisely where in the course they occur. Describe what technology or event they are referring to? What influence did these actions or ideas have on these technologies or events? What is the contemporary or modern state of these ideas or technologies?
1. Waiting on tender hooks for human urine to grow stale
2. Throwing knuckleballs at the Prussian army
3. Riding a horse side saddle on your way to the voting booth
4. Determining where you are by using a log and sand.
5. Challenging the idea of multiples with a melting chocolate bar
6. Counting on your fingers all the way to IBM
7. Sawing a board using water and a tree branch
8. Smelling sweet scented plants disguised as a bird
9. Explaining how jumping frogs' legs helped create a monster
10. Helping three sisters work together
11. From an ornate silk robe using cards to programming IBM
12. Unfortunately proving Don Cherry right
13. Tracing the where, how and why that He travelled
14. Setting your alarm using a candle and a nail
15. Launching the automobile industry with a garter
16. Designing a technology based on a horse's rear-end.
17. Gaining a handle by losing a handle in stopping a disease
18. Breaking up the alphabet to speed things up and entrench them
19. Showing how a girl milking a cow saved millions from disfigurement
20. Putting one additional ewe out to pasture because it wouldn't hurt anybody
21. Recommending celibacy to check wars
22. Not bothering to plant barley in your field to make it more productive
23. Digging up your dirt floor as a prelude to war
24. Knowing where you are by consulting your watch