The World's Largest Computer in 1951

[Ivan Seeking]

You're up with one additional credit Zooby.

 

[zoobyshoe]

Invented "by mistake", this item resulted when importer Mr. Sullivan tried to find a cheap alternative to sending samples of his product to his customers in tins. The customers misunderstood how his alternate packaging was to be used. 1904

edit:spelling

 

[cookiemonster]

Bottles!

cookiemonster

 

[zoobyshoe]

Bottles!

Sorry, cookiemonster. Hint: he wanted something cheaper than tins.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

toilet paper.

 

[zoobyshoe]

toilet paper.

As good a guess as any, but no. Credit for that foundation of the first world goes all the way back to Mrs. Oock, who first began speculating about a pile of leaves she noticed while...no need to go into it.

 

[cookiemonster]

Bottle caps?

cookiemonster

 

[zoobyshoe]

Bottle caps?

Sorry, cookie monster. Hint: by tin I mean a box made of thin sheet metal. Sullivan created an alternative packaging to the tin, that was cheaper, but whose use was misunderstood by the customers to whom he sent samples. He decided the customer was always right and "this" was born.

 

[cragwolf]

Invented "by mistake", this item resulted when importer Mr. Sullivan tried to find a cheap alternative to sending samples of his product to his customers in tins. The customers misunderstood how his alternate packaging was to be used. 1904

Umm, condoms?

 

[zoobyshoe]

Umm, condoms?

ROFL! No. That would be quite a misunderstanding, wouldn't it?

 

[wolram]

tea bags, origonaly made from silk.

 

[jimmy p]

hmmm wild stab in the dark... plastic?? what did Mr. Sullivan do anyway?

 

[wolram]

maybe the same as A MAZDA. was and is.

 

[zoobyshoe]

tea bags, origonaly made from silk.

CORRECT! Instead of removing the tea from the silk bags, the customers placed the whole bag into the teapot and poured hot water over it. The tea bag was born.

 

[wolram]

isn't it crazy how one can remember irrelevant trivia, well
i half remembered this one but admit i had to google to
retrieve the facts

 

[zoobyshoe]

isn't it crazy how one can remember irrelevant trivia, well
i half remembered this one but admit i had to google to
retrieve the facts

I thought this question was incredibly easy, strangly enough. Loose tea is still sold in tins, so I thought people could follow the train of logic to the tea bag without knowing anything about the actual origin of it. I guess there aren't many tea drinkers here.

Your turn, Wolram.

 

[wolram]

maybe the same as A MAZDA. was and is.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

that's your clue?

 

[zoobyshoe]

maybe the same as A MAZDA. was and is.

Yes, your clue is quite obscure, but I'll take a stab at it and assume you're looking for other vehicles that have a wankel engine. So it might be one of the following:

NSU spider
Re80
Citroen
Chevy Corvette
Mercedes benz

 

[wolram]

that's your clue?
well how easy do you want me make it? BGn

 

[wolram]

clue 2.
he who covers, water.

 

[wolram]

Yes, your clue is quite obscure, but I'll take a stab at it and assume you're looking for other vehicles that have a wankel engine. So it might be one of the following:

NSU spider
Re80
Citroen
Chevy Corvette
Mercedes benz
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as in mr A MAZDA

 

[jimmy p]

The Azram dam! or however it is spelt ...isnt is Aswan? damn!

 

[wolram]

The Azram dam! or however it is spelt ...isnt is Aswan? damn!
sorry jimmy.
MAZDA leads to the who was, and to the thing ,that is miles and miles
and miles away.

 

[zoobyshoe]

MAZDA leads to the who was, and to the thing ,that is miles and miles
and miles away.

OK. I found out that Ahura Mazda is zoroastrian for "wise lord" or a character from Also Sprach Zarathustra, so this is some kind of mystical thing.

 

[wolram]

ok you just have to find another name for Ahura Mazda
to find the distant thing.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Temple Of Zoroaster?

 

[wolram]

its not earthly, only its namesake

 

[Njorl]

Hmm, other names for Ahura Mazda were Ormazd, which evolved to Ormuzd. Long after, Ormuzd morphed to Hormuz, though I don't know if the diety was ever called this by worshippers.
Njorl

 

[Njorl]

Ah, Hindus who were converted in the heyday of the Persian Empire associated Ahura Mazda with Varuna. In the early vedic days, Varuna was the keeper of the celestial waters.