Go back in time..100 years.. Take only 1 suitcase & a hand cart with you

[SoCalDem]

Rules:

Your memory of today's life would go with you
No taking people or pets
You will be going back permanently (for your whole life... at your current age)
Remember the limitations of the time.. (no cell phone towers, no internet, etc.)

You CAN take something back to change the future, but whatever it is, it's a finite thing..once used up, it's gone (a la medicine, battery powered stuff etc)




I'm not quite sure what I would take.. I'm still thinking on it :)

[Hugin]

1. Several old almanacs...

Then... I'd start betting like mad!

[QueenOfCalifornia]

3. Back to the Future

That's sort of what I thought of..

Then I would take the "recipe" for making nylon and invent panty hose.

[Hugin]

4. Don't forget the gold...

like I almost did.

puerco down there reminded me. :hi:

Some antibiotics would be useful too.

[QueenOfCalifornia]

7. How very

Pragmatic of you... er, um - Prag.

Will do...

Now where is the Way Back Machine?

[puerco-bellies]

2. Muah-Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-hawh!!!

A few bars of gold, and a detailed record of commodity's and stock prices.

[SoCalDem]

5. Remember, you must spend your WHOLE life there.. you're not coming back

:)

[puerco-bellies]

6. First you get the money, then you get the power..

Mawh hahahahahahahahahahahahha...! Native Americans blended quite well back then right?

[qdemn7]

8. Welll....

Gold, of course.

Copies of:

Latest Regular Almanac
Latest Sports Almanac
The Way Things Work.
The Electrical Engineering Handbook
Textbooks in Modern Physics
Textbooks in Electrical Engineering
Every CRC Handbook
Set of Enyclopedias

That should do it.

[SoCalDem]

10. You would be the smartest guy in the room..to be sure

Can you imagine how a photographic exhibition of our lives would have amazed them :)

the women would have swooned for sure at our kitchens & labor saving devices:)

[rockymountaindem]

9. I would take a history book and show everybody I could how bad WWI effected the rest of the century

Hopefully that would be enough. If only I could convey to those people that they were about to fight the *dumbest* war in history that would only spark an even more horrifying war 20 years later, that would be worth it to me.

[UncleSepp]

11. Gold, antibiotics, some books, some letters and my address book

Specifically, money to last a while, books on child psychology, the treatment of childhood infectious diseases, and pediatric orthopedics, two biographies, one diary, four old letters and my address book from 1995. If there was still room, I'd bring some current currency, a laptop computer, a 220v adapter, and some balloons.

On edit: A block of C4, some detonators, a very large sack and a plastic spoon. Just as a backup plan.