Well It wasn't in a shed but the most significant invention ever was created by a man with no formal education. That inventor had no more than 3 months total formal schooling and was home schooled until his parents could no longer answer all his questions concerning mathematics. He was then Self Taught. His name was Thomas Edison and the invention that changed everything was the electric light. (Which eventually became the vaccuum tube that lead to the transistor and onward to the intigrated circuit chips of today.astro_uk wrote: Inventions you may have a point there, if you mean dustbusters or whatever. Perhaps you can name a vital piece of technology from the last 100 years that was invented in someones shed.
Oh and the Macintosh was created in a garage