How old did you say you were Eddie?...lol

I seem to remember around 3500 BC inventing the wheel but perhaps I was dreaming. The wedge is the oldest simple machine, made by our ancestors Homo erectus at least as long ago as 1.2 million years to make stone tools.

The oldest musical instrument in the world, a 60,000-year-old Neanderthal flute is a treasure of global significance. It was discovered in Divje babe cave near Cerkno and has been declared by experts to have been made by Neanderthals. I assume there were drums before that.

I remember well those little transistor radios. That was the XBox of the 50's. I had a toy wood block printing press. We had chemistry sets and my childhood friend Bobby had Bobby and Billy's modal airplane and bomb factory. Made hydrogen gas and put it in balloons and attached fire crackers so it would blow up in the air. It was a very different world from today.

Billy

“Amazing! I’ll be working with Jaco Pastorius, Charlie Parker, Art Tatum, and Buddy Rich, and you’re telling me it’s not that great of a gig?
“Well…” Saint Peter, hesitated, “God’s got this girlfriend who thinks she can sing…”