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I am so very proud to tell you that my husband had 140 patents to his name before he died. He would be sitting down at the dinner table, and a thought would enter his mind. Bingo, he had to write it down. He worked on military gadgets, original TV videos (VCRs), printing machines, ATM machines for dispensing money, mailing mechanisms to sort mail faster, ladies' hair rollers, roller wands, diffuser attachments for hair products, ionic heat blowers, and on and on. All his invention plaques line the walls in our home. He had a very special mind for mechanical ideas. That's about four patents a year in his lifetime.
I am so very proud of his achievements and want to share his abilities and talents with you. 😊
I'd be very proud too!! This is so awesome! TFS! Austin TX USA
Awesome!!!. You definitely should be proud, the man made millions of people lives easier
If you don't mind me asking, what did he do with those ideas? Did he have to create a mock-up and sell that to another company, or would companies just reach out after the patent was filed?
My grandmother-in-law (RIP) helped invent low-dose radiation x-rays that were instrumental in mammograms. Some of her work even went on the Space Shuttle. She was an incredible woman for her time (1900s).
thats so amazing!
That's very cool!! TFS!
Austin TX USA
Give your GMIL my gratitude for saving millions of lives. An enormous achievement!
MRIs saved my live. I’m a cancer survivor. Every year I get an MRI monitor potential cancer problems. So far, so good.
You have to admit that in the last 50-120 years, we have made extreme leaps in technology that have both helped and hurt our society
Yes. Very creative people who come up with our great tech. It’s up to everybody else to determine how to use it.
In the near future, suppressed technology and stolen patents will help us even more. There are inventions that take energy right out of the air ( Tesla had it ), no more pollution from transportation vehicles, no more wires, pipes, gas, oil etc. And anti gravity devices and tons more of who knows what wonderments are waiting for us!
It was called a Rand McNalley Road Atlas. You also could purchase local folded maps at the gas station or convenience store. Also, you could stop at the gas station and ask for directions. The workers usually knew the local area really well. That's when people could freely talk with each other.
There is a ton of information available on street signs too. Freeway>>> > Tsunami evacuation route. etc...
I worked on GPS in 1983 at Rockwell, I built and tested GPS-13, and worked with engineers to solve problems written up in US News and World Report.
Eli Whitney also later invented the Cotton Gin which revolutionized the way fabric was made. The Cotton Gin separates the sticky seeds from cotton fiber making the process much smoother. It made many planters rich and brought clothing to the masses. Before this people used rough and itchy Burlap, wool, or linen. None of which are very good. Cotton was expensive to make clothes from but the Cotton Gin dropped prices so much in such little time that farmers could plant a lot more and earn 10 times more profit with little effort. It’s one of the cornerstone machines of the Industrial Revolution.
A common idiom in the USA is "that's the greatest thing since sliced bread" so it's odd to me that sliced bread didn't make the list or at least honorable mention. At one point in 1943 the government put a ban on sliced bread as a wartime conservation effort and the popularity of sliced bread was so high that the nation went up in arms over the ban and it only lasted 47 days.
You’re right. The bread slicing machine and sliced bread was hugely popular. I would say it belongs on this list. It revolutionized the way we eat overnight.
It is my understanding that sliced bread initially was not appreciated by the public. It's been many years since I read about it, but I do remember it was not originally embraced.Diane, using Joe's tablet
@@JosephGiannelli-eu6os the first bread slicer was invented in 1928. It was the bakeries, not the general public, that had initial concerns with it as sliced bread went stale much faster but it was addressed with some further innovation and by 1933 the first commercially available sliced bread, Wonderbread, hit the shelves and was a near instant hit with consumers.
Refrigeration could be in the top 10 or 20 American inventions:
In 1805, an American inventor, Oliver Evans, designed a blueprint for the first refrigeration machine. But it wasn't until 1834 that the first practical refrigerating machine was built by Jacob Perkins. The refrigerator created cool temperatures using a vapor compression cycle.
This invention completely revolutionized how perishable food was stored. It also allowed perishable food and temperature-sensitive medications to be shipped across the US and around the world efficiently.
Unfortunately older refrigerators and freezers operated using ammonia… poisonous if it leaked.
We used to carry several paper maps in the glove box. They could be a nightmare to use if you weren't good at reading them.
Plus the folding them back was also a nightmare.😨
I still carry paper maps and atlases as backups. They're also handy if you cannot get cellular data in remote areas.
I remember using maps. You had to keep pulling off the road to look at your map. Having a passenger to navigate by following the map for the driver was important for much use of a map while driving! TFS! Austin TX USA
@MichaelScheele That's a good idea. I stopped doing that because I download Google map data, but batteries die. I'll have to look for a vendor because I haven't seen any locally in years.
@@joeb5316, try the remaining bookstores, larger gas stations, or AAA. Then there's always Amazon.
Preferred set of maps:
My city/area
Major city closest to me
My state
Optional: neighboring states/region
Nationwide map or atlas
Optional for the belt and suspenders (braces to Brits) crowd: Thomas Guide for my area
Freedom is the playground of creativity.
In the pre-internet era we would use paper maps and have an understanding how street and building numbers work in order to find where we were going. Sometimes we would get lost or miss a turn and have to stop and figure it out on the map. Sometimes we'd ask for directions from a local or at a gas station. The driver would be paying very close attention and it usually didn't take more than 1-3 times visiting a place to just know how to get there.
I could always get to anywhere with a map, but that last mile with no idea about the streets, one-ways, address numbers, etc. was absolute hell! I could spend more time on the last mile than on half the trip.
Some of us still prefer paper maps ( permanent reference) and some even collect the old ones.
I might be a little partial because I am American. I've been to 80 countries and there are absolutely beautiful countries out there, but this is my home. I don't know why, but it seems sometimes there are people that just don't like things out of jealousy, ignorance, not really knowing what is going on and it makes me sad because there's so many amazing things about the United States. Insane what this country has done in just the last 100 years alone. No other country can even come close to that. Love all of your videos, buddy.
Why in the US?
- In the US, trying, failing, and trying again is not looked down upon as in many other countries and cultures.
- In the US, inventors and business owners can gain great financial wealth, if successful, from the risks that they take.
- In the US, invention benefits from combining good ideas, insights, processes and people from every country and culture on earth.
- In the US, the infrastructure of communication, transportation, basic utilities, inventory of parts & materials, and stable government is largely in place and efficient. Although efficient and business-friendly government is always a challenge.
As a mechanical design engineer and inventor myself, the fact that I can often order a part or material (from within the US) on one day and have it delivered to my doorstep in a day or two (if necessary) is a game-changing benefit. This requires efficient infrastructure that is up and running 24/7/365.
Machines That Built America was a show on the History Channel. You can find the shows on UA-cam. From Henry Ford, Thomas Alva Edison, The Rockefellers and on and on. Interesting show that tells how things are connected and how competing companies propelled each other into their historical places. Edison versus Tesla. Ford helping Chrysler in WW2 with plane engines....a lot of cool stuff
That's a great series!!! TFS!
Austin TX USA
As is The Men That Built America.
Excellent series
I used to work with a "key map".
It was a book where an areas map would be broken down to pages in a book. So you could look up a street map for one grid at a time to find places
Even though not invented since it just exists on earth, but Benjamin Franklin should have been a mention for his studies with electricity.
Air Conditioning. AC is a must have! USA USA USA!
We read paper maps and often stopped at gas stations to ask for directions. No, I'm not kidding. Every trip at some point had a wife begging her stubborn husband to please stop and ask for directions!
I remember!!!
@@barbaracabrera207 Actually I was fortunate enough to be blessed with a great sense of direction & was very good at reading maps, so I always got stuck being the navigator on every trip since I was 10. Once I got married, my wife who loved driving took us all across the USA and parts of Canada while I was the relief driver on the long stretches' of freeway.
@@gregorybiestek3431 That's a great story!! TFS! Austin TX USA
@gregorybiestek3431 Yeah it's something that you get good at with practice
I have all kinds of state maps and atlases from road tripping in the before GPS...kinda miss those days
My dad had a Mobil gas station that was 1 of 4 stations clustered together. He had a falling out with Mobil and decided to wind it down and open the Texaco next store. A customer pulled in for a map that I couldn't provide, so he squealed out to 'show me' that he was taking his business next store. My twin brother, sensing the same opportunity I did, stepped out of the Texaco to hear me yell, 'he wants a map.' Before the driver could ask for it, my twin met him with the map.
7:02 Andre, you had a paper map, and you would have to look for a landmark in real life... Such as an intersection or a highway number... And then you would look at the map to try and figure out where you were... And then you could figure out where you needed to be.
Sometimes figuring out where you are is the hardest thing to do. You're in a state in a town you've never been in before, and You are lost.
So usually if you couldn't find an intersection or a highway number, you would go into a local business and ask what city you are in. Then you can look for that on the map, sometimes towns will be so small. You wouldn't even see them listed in large letters... So it was easier to just ask the owner of the store, how far you are from your destination and most of the time they can tell you
I could always get to anywhere with a map, but that last mile with no idea about the streets, one-ways, address numbers, etc. was absolute hell! I could spend more time on the last mile than on half the trip.
I never had problems using maps. I actually enjoyed it. It was like solving a puzzle. I would prepare myself in advance and pretty much always I made right without getting lost. I still check maps before going on a road trip to places I've never been too. Also, most people had a book map of the city they lived in just in case you had to go somewhere you were not familiar with. Taxi drivers had to know the city by heart. Love those times. Also made people smarter and more logical and able to be more resourceful.
@@robertofernandez7773 Agreed!
And we knew where we were going and got our directions ahead of time
Yeah. I grew up with a giant road atlas in the backseat in case we needed it!
People are unaware of the contribution of golden age hollywood actress Hedy Lamar she not only a total beauty but a genius shes the one that during world war II she invented Wifi...
Computer Numerical Control - CNC machines changed manufacturing FOREVER. It allowed for computers to manufacture many parts with precision.
I once read a book about Wright Bros. Bicycle mechanics, that built the first practical airplane. They spent five years studying what was known about heavier than air flight, tossed it. Started from scratch built the first Wind Tunnel, to study air flow, wing design, and understand how "lift" works
They were brilliant practical mechanics.
I traveled across the country using maps. For short distances you would look at a local map that you could get for free at places or maybe a dollar. Then write down the turn by turn before heading out so you didn't get distracted while driving. For long trips just trust the beautiful interstate highway system. Follow the signs, get on the freeway, and drive for hundreds of miles and consult the Rand McNally national atlas that night. It would have the sights of interest and tourist spots you could plan for the next day. But I mean you can cross the country either direction and stay on one road if you want.
I've been to all 50 states and never have used GPS. I love maps.
The lightbulb allows people to continue to work past sunset.
They missed the Transistor!
Yup, one of the biggest things, and they totally missed it.
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Stop it. There's enough trans on the Internet as it is
it's endless the things America has invented.
@@Bozemanjustin They list the Personal Computer, but they are wrong in one aspect - the personal computer and just about EVERY electronic device depends on the TRANSISTOR! No transistor, no personal computer, no cell phone, and no internet which requires banks of servers. The transistor was invented in Bell Labs in 1947 and EVERYTHING came after that.
It was actually Smith and Weston who did the assembly line first. Ford got the idea by visiting them and seeing it in action. They gave credit to Ford probably because they didn't want to give credit to a gun manufacturer.
8:42 not only did Thomas Edison invent the light bulb, he invented, recorded sound and recorded motion pictures... In other words, videos.
He invented the light bulb and he invented recording videos with audio in them
Edison was credited with creating lots of tech but he took credit created by engineers at his laboratories. I don’t know if historians have been able to identify the actual creators. What Edison did is legal since he owned the land and the creators were his employees.
Edison did not invent the light bulb and is credited with a lot that he did not create. Sorry to dim your bulb.
No Edison was a thief . Just about everything that we credit to him he "legally" stole from his employees.
*Today's/this week's afternoon high temperatures in parts of the US are 100° (38° C) and above (108° [42.2°] in Phoenix; , 110° [43.3°] in Las Vegas). Right now, the most important American invention to many of us is **_mechanical air conditioning._* Mechanical air conditioning made it possible for the growing settlement of the South, Southwest and West of the US, with the population migration to those areas that started in the 1970's with the advent of home mechanical air conditioning.
Andre, look up : Rand-McNally Road Atlas. It's a large book of Maps of the US and Canada. That was how you traveled before GPS. They're still being published, although the company also supplies apps that work with GPS..
8:39 Carrier who invented air conditioning is the winner
They left out the diode, transistor and IC. Without these many of these inventions would never have happened. All three came from Bell Laboratories.
There is also a series - The Food that Built America. I think the most recent episodes have modern foods, such as frozen pizzas and Hot Pockets. btw - because the work of women, especially black women, is rarely acknowledged, Gladys West, a black woman mathematician helped develop the math behind GPS. She is 93 yrs old and in the US Air Force Hall of Fame.
Several episodes of " The Food that Built America" Even pet food, and BBQ. I liked the one of the woman who started Pepper Ridge Farms. And the woman who came up with the first Cabbage Patch Kid doll. Toys that Built America.
The Wright brother's airplane was special because it was the first controlled flight. They had movable elevators, rudders, and ailerons. Anything before that couldn't be useful because they just crashed because there weren't any in-flight adjustable flight surfaces.
Well, what the Wright Bro's invented was the modern wind tunnel which did NOT exist before them. Others came up with concept but never made it work. They did. All wind tunnels since theirs uses their methods for obtaining lab results. Because of this Wright Brothers were able to tabulated angle of attack and coefficient of lift correlation. They were able to Invent the propeller, and yes, they eventually invented 3d warping/folding wing sections and therefore controlled flight. Without their wind tunnel, no one invents the propeller. Without the propeller, no one invents powered flight.
The internet opened us up to the world. None of us would have known of you or your channel without it. If used properly, it can unite the world in peace.
I remember we never knew what was happening internationally unless it was something really important that made the newspaper.
I love seeing reactions about the history of the internet and what life was like before the internet existed from people living in an internet dominated generation. I'm glad I'm part of the last generation who will remember life before the internet and cell phones.
Life was much much better and people actually visited their friends in person on a regular basis without making plans ahead of time. When I was growing up and you wanted to hang out with your friends, you would get on your bike, go out alone, drop by some friend's houses to see if they're home or if their family knew where they were. 90% of the time parents didn't know where their children were and it was a time of beautiful freedom to be a kid. the one rule was usually just "be home for dinner"
Andre don't forget they had to navigate the ocean for sailing way before G.P.S.
the Portuguese sailed the unknown world without gps or maps
My husband and I agree that GPS is the greatest invention. Before GPS getting to someplace unknown was not an easy task, especially for over the road truck drivers...
Also, not Everyone has used email.
I can personally attest that my husband has never sent an email in his life 😂 no joke...
I remember how large the computer was when I worked at Burger World Headquarters. It was in a large very cold room.
there's a few tv series about industries & inventions that changed America & the world on the History Channel
I'm 42 so I was driving before GPS. We used to remember how to get to places. If it was a new location, we'd plan out our route and concentrate on actually driving. We'd even read road signs. It was WILD! Then Map Quest came out and we'd just print out the instructions and refer to them if we forgot a step or street name. That was super easy for us.
The dates of some of these inventions seem a lot older than we think because mass adoption takes time. For example cell phone technology was invented in 1945 but Bell telephone (which had a monopoly) prevented the technology from coming to see the light of day for decades.
How they left out the invention by the USA of the Atomic Bomb is crazy. That changed the world big time!
Those giant computers used vacuum tubes which were used for signal switching and amplification. The invention of the transistor in the 1950s replaced the switching function of vacuum tube. The 1st Inegrated Circuits were introduced in the 1960s. Miniturization was launched.
Moore's Law states that the number of transistors on a microchip doubles every two years, leading to exponential growth in computing power and capabilities over the years which is why we have smartphones today...exponential miniturization.
Before GPS, we had to carry paper maps that were folded and kept in the glove compartment. Even then, there were many that couldn't read a map and usually had to ask directions. Every gas station usually had a local map taped to the door on the inside of the office
I would add refrigeration and atomic power.
Remember, without the light bulb, we would have to watch television by candlelight.
7:07 I used to deliver pizzas before GPS, I'd look at the map hanging on the wall and memorize my routes before each delivery
Andre at 4:40 they list the Personal Computer, but they are wrong in one aspect - the personal computer and just about EVERY electronic device depends on the TRANSISTOR! No transistor, no personal computer, no cell phone, and no internet which requires banks of servers. The transistor was invented in Bell Labs in 1947 and EVERYTHING came after that.
I worked at the same space as you see the Wright Brothers setting up, it was called Huffman Prairie then. It changed to Wright Field then with a major Land donation from a Mr. Patterson, a local businessman, it became Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, The most important Air Force Base on the Planet.
We used to have paper maps. And just before GPS got big we had mapquest that would determine a route you could print.
MapQuest is still available. I used it several yrs back when I had to drive halfway across the country as a back up to my GPS. Printed out directions just in case.
The Wright brothers (who invented the airplane) were bicycle repairmen in Dayton, Ohio. When I moved to Dayton and first took my bicycle in for repair, I asked the guy running the shop how his space program was going, because the nation has come to expect a lot from Dayton bicycle repairmen.
Born in 1973. grew up using paper maps. We had to remember the route we planned out from the map with occasional stops to recheck the map.
Not having GPS was never much of a problem. Maps were used mainly on vacation or in a metro area to find the side streets.
I am old school, I do not use GPS for anything. We have an SUV and a Ford truck, neither have GPS. I have a cheap smartphone, but don't use Google maps as I prefer a road atlas.
Back in the day every gas station sold maps for the local area
I grew up in the 70's as a kid next to Boston and used a map when I had a 71 Chevy Nova burner (100 dollars to fix) at 16.5. I bought a Commodore 64 computer in 83 which I believe had that 8086 processor and around 64KB RAM which today is nothing. Loved it and channeled programming for me.
Also, my first high tech job in around 88 was as a HW technician, and learned UNIX, or better then FreeBSD and Linux. So, this is where you could establish Bulletin Boards, email and anything you can imagine if you can program
Actually, using a map is much easier for me than glancing at/listening to a gps. 1) I have an overview of the area, so I am free to use whatever roads are clearest/most interesting for long distance; 2) I know NOT to listen to the gps when it tells me to take I64 West, and I know my target is 40 miles to the east of the road I'm on [found out there were 2 schools in the state with the same name]; 3) solar flares don''t leave me stranded [it has happened to some]; and so on. I know they make fun of trying to fold and unfold single sheet maps, but when I was driving cab in the 70s, most detailed maps were in book format.
I have been to Kittyhawk, North Carolina. It was a cool place to visit
Agreed. Interesting to see the markers where the various flights landed and marvel how much they improved throughout the day.
When I was a small kid in the late 70's, my parents drove on vacation with a paper map bought at a gas station. When I was driving it was by printing out directions from the internet.
Da Vinci actually created a glider although never put into the sky. Someone actually created a scale model of the glider from the plans and put it through a wind tunnel and the concepts were absolutely sound as it was predicted it would fall from the sky but it actually would stay aloft if it found enough thermals. He also created the concept of a helicopter which was not built but it shows his mind working. The helicopter would not have gone off the ground anyway as the mechanism was not exactly the best as it was human powered.
Kitty Hawk, North Carolina was simply the location of the first engine-powered heavier-than-air flight. Orville and Wilbur Wright, went there because of normally predictable winds during certain parts of the year. They did their development work from their home in Dayton Ohio.
I learned to drive without gps, in fact it wasn't until my kids taught me how to use it that I began to. We always had a map in the car and you not only had to be a good driver but also a good map reader. You'd look at the map then if needed make notes of which roads to take and where to turn what direction, then if you were lucky the person sitting next to you would read out your next turn for you. Otherwise you had to put it somewhere you could see it. Many times directions were taped to the dash.
Paper Maps and Atlas's as well as common sense
I still have a big specially printed book of maps of Germany. 2.5 “ thick!
I think a lot of common sense disappeared with maps, calculators, spell check, etc.
My uncle helped design the exoskeletons you see the military use to help our soldiers lift heavier things & have less fatigue in the field it’s awesome, & one day we will figure out how to use it for disabled people because rn you still have to have normal strength & bodily functions to use them, but with AI who knows what can be achieved with it now!
The Assembly Line is a logical extension of the interchangeable parts idea that was developed during the Founding Days.
The US military was already sending data from Vietnam to the Pentagon in 1969. My dad was a computer programmer and was trained by the Air Force in the late 1960's. He spent 1969 in Vietnam and in his letters home he talks about sending data from Siagon to the Pentagon. He died in 1989 and he would be blown away by today's technology. We got our first VCR in 1987 and he was overthinking how to set it up. About two hours passed and he couldn't figure it out. I got behind the TV with him and had it hooked up in five minutes.
I would have lumped the computer and the internet together as modern electronics, and the assembly line and interchangeable parts together as mass production. I also would have included the mechanical reaper, the first practical steamship (the North River Steamboat of Claremont, NY), the phonograph, and penicillin. I would argue that the mechanization of agriculture was probably actually the most impactful, because it enabled relatively few people to produce lots of food, which allowed for the modern era of urbanization. Then was the steamboat, because it allowed for the rise of global trade networks. Third was penicillin, because it gave rise to modern medicine. And of course, recorded sound enabled the rise of pop culture.
The History Channel is a cable television network here in the USA and they have multiple documentary type series of "The X That Built America" including The Machines, The Toys, The Food, The Men. I think you might enjoy watching some of them.
I really hope Andre sees this comment, I was going to write the same thing. I think he'd love all of those series. They're fascinating.
Some of the best inventions are refridgeration for food!!! Water inside your home and aircondition!!!
I'm in Oklahoma, and it gets super humid and well over 100° every summer.
Automobiles and then A/C in them, too.
I remember when my daddy put our first Air Conditioner into the wall in our living room. We'd close all doors to seal off the rest of the house. And we'd stay in the living room. I think TV was an important invention that wasn't mentioned!!
Agreed on a/c. Air conditioning wins hands down. The US didn't invent the automobile though, Germans did. The US just mass produced them on a scale that made it affordable for the average person to own one.
Have friends in Nebraska who, in 1983, bought a house designed & built by US architect Frank Lloyd Wright in 1909 and they found light bulbs in there made by the Edison Company that were still working. The bulbs didn't have the screw-base that have been used since the 1920's, so it they may have been the originals.
The Machines that Built America, The Food That Built America, etc are all some really fantastic documentary series on History channel. I’m near positive you could watch them on a streaming service or by using a VPN or something. You’d love the shows though!
Don't forget the electric guitar 😅😅😅
Maps. When we got lost, we'd ask for directions.
I'm a real estate agent and used a mapbook and written directions to show houses back in the day. Yes I'm old 😂...still selling real estate though 😊
When I was in school in the 1960’s the teaching was that a computer capable of playing winning chess would be the size of a major building and require the equivalent of the water over Niagara Falls to cool!
In my first computer class in 1970, we had to punch the code on "Hollerith Cards" (they were around the size of a dollar bill) and so a whole computer program would be a deck of this cards. Heaven help you if you dropped the deck!
In the 90's and early 2000's we had an Atlas and Geography classes to help us find out way around. So traveling was an actual adventure. After that, though, not so much.
I remember when the internet was new-ish in the late 80s with dialup BBS with 1200baud modems. Last one I used was 288kb modems before I switched to direct internet via modems to an ISP.
Rand McNally made a state map book. And whenever you went on road trips you needed a driver and the person in the passenger seat was the navigator
AAA in the Great Lakes region also made road maps, street maps, and trip-tickets which were used more around the Midwest area.
The Men who built America is a great series.
Also "The Cars that built the World". "The Cars that Built America" etc. And "The Food that Built America" is my favorite.
Isn't there one about Toys as well?
@@LA_HA Yes.
Orville and Wilbur Wright glided in North Carolina but they flew in their hometown of Dayton, Ohio.
In one of the greatest coincidences in history, Alexander Graham Bell and Elisha Gray submitted patent applications for virtually identical devices on the same day. There were court battles for several years until it was finally decided that Bell was the first.
Sometimes it's just time for an invention. Newton and Leibniz invented calculus at the same time. Tesla and Marconi were both working on radio at the same time, but Marconi beat Tesla to it.
I started driving in the 1980s and went to college half the continent away. I did a hell of a lot of driving using paper maps and bound road atlases before GPS. I could even calculate my ETA within a minute or two on a daylong trip if I was motivated to. Admittedly these days I often wonder how I managed that lol but we could still do it if we needed to. These days I still like to pick up paper maps if I’m in some far away state or National Park and have a map box full of them.
The Canadians are going to argue that Alexander Graham Bell was Canadian. He lived in both countries and did research in both countries. He filed his patent application in the US. Of interest, another inventor Elisha Gray, filed a patent application the same day as Bell. I don't recall why Bell's application took precedence, but we could just as easily be crediting Gray as the inventor of the telephone. It's probably fair, and maybe more accurate, to say that Bell was a Scottish born North American.
Not a flex, but a long time ago, I used to love arguing with and debating Canadians over Everything. I don't remember just now how that all started, but there was some saltiness involved.
At some point, inventions became the topic and they mentioned Bell and the person who invented the train (again, don't remember who or what he did exactly).
I remember telling the Canadians that they came to America for a reason and that reason was they were Free to dream it, design it, and make money from it. This wasn't happening elsewhere like it was happening in America
You should go to history Channel or discovery Channel (can't remember which) and they have series...the men that built America, machines that built America and so on! You would love the one on food
MAPS, paper maps bound together in a Mapsco book. I was in Hawaii when GPS was deployed to the frontline infantryman in the US Army with a clunky device called a Slugger Box, SLGR (Small Lightweight GPS Receiver).
Yes, maps were a pain. You absolutely needed a navigator or you had to pull over every now and then to check the map again and figure out what route to take next. And they rarely ever folded closed as neatly as way they opened up. Grrr!
I feel the same way about the internet. Sooo much bad, and yet soooo much good
Yes, North Carolina! Ohio argues that they deserve the title “First In Flight,” but the first flight was in NC. Maps were a horrible pain when traveling alone. The driver needed a co-pilot to be the map reader. My daughter and I went to a concert at a very large venue in a large city and we ended up having to exit the parking lot at a different location than our entrance, so I was not familiar with where we were. I didn’t think too much about it though because there were road signs all over the place (I didn’t have a smart phone then). I asked my daughter to help keep an eye out for the road signs so that I could focus on traffic. This was around 2013 and my daughter was amazed that we could navigate without a GPS or map. (We missed an exit on our way home from her high school in a different state, so she had a crash course in map reading then.) I’m not sure how old you are but I would speculate that that you are near her age of 34, so I’m sure you can relate to her confusion more than I could. Also, I have printed maps of the states to my south, to my north, and my own state. Technology doesn’t always work!
I'm from Ohio and I've never heard anyone argue that we are "First in Flight" we claim "Birthplace of Aviation" because this is where the Wright brothers lived, designed and built the first airplane.
The Wright Bros did all their engineering, preflight testing, and development of flyable aircraft in Dayton, Ohio. They did test gliders and eventually the first powered flight at Kitty Hawk Hill on the beach in North Carolina because the terrain and winds favored that location. That flight covered only a few hundred yards at under 100’ altitude. Afterward that development continued in Dayton where the first powered take-off, flight, and successful landing took place at Huffman Prairie. They continued development of practical aircraft for commercial and military use in Dayton. Today the National Park Service operates a scattered sight museum at 5 locations where the the Wright Bros. worked. Eventually their work identified Dayton Ohio as the birthplace of aviation resulting in the location of Wright-Patterson Airforce Base. Wright-Patterson, through WWII and continuing today, operates the largest development of flight systems for both fixed wing and missiles in the United States Air Force. More 30,000 employees, mostly engineering contractors are employed here. The National Museum of the Air Force in located on the base. The AF Museum has the largest collection of military aircraft in the world. It is the largest single tourist attraction in Ohio. I believe all this is a tribute the work of the Wright Bros., citizens of Dayton and suburban Oakwood, Ohio.
@@AmberVivicide The “motto” on our license plates was First in Flight. It was reported by media outlets that OH was raising such a stink about it that the motto would no longer be used.
@@carolburnett190 it wasn't Ohio raising a stink about the motto First in Flight, it was Connecticut who wanted it removed and given to their state and it went for a vote in Congress. Ohio used the motto Heart of it All on our license plates until 1998. To commemorate the 200th birthday of Ohio the slogan was changed and North Carolina were the ones who huffed and puffed about it, not the other way around.
Hear hear! After my GPS told me to “turn right” into a 3’ deep snowed-in pasture lane, cyclone fence and 6’hedge, and disappeared completely I bought every local map I could find wherever I traveled!
"Why Ohio's Population Is So Equally Spread Out Geography By Geoff" is a great video of about 15 minutes that will explain the region pretty well. I had friends from both WV and ohio when I lived in Pittsburgh. You can visit all three states in about 30 minutes, if you don't stay ;long.
Ohio is 5 minutes west of me and Pennsylvania is 5 minutes east of me.
@@suterfamily5578which means you are in the northern panhandle of WN, Weirton - Wheeling area? Or nearby!
@@appaloosa42 Yes to one of those 😜
We printed maps out and followed the directions before gps were mainstream
To this day I can find anything on a map. I still chart my trips of unknown places with a paper map first. I can go someone once and rarely will I forget the route. I prefer self navigation to this day.
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I live in North Carolina and I was taught in school that apparently Ohio fights with us to have the title of "first in flight" (I know that phrase is on NC license plates, but idk about Ohio's plates.. I think it's phrased as "birthplace of aviation"). This is because the Wright brothers did most of their work for their plane in Ohio, but tested it successfully in NC.
Ofc I'm biased, but I think we (NC) should hold the title. After all, if a german person were to immigrate to america and invent something, would it be considered germany's or america's invention?
We used paper maps. And we drove around at random and familiarized ourselves with the area.
I still carry a national and a state map. In case GPS goes out. Or on long trips, I want to see the whole thing at once.
Without the transistor, most of these would not even be possible. These guys are the OG's, and if there was an award beyond the Nobel prize, they'd deserve it.
William Shockley, John Bardeen, and Walter Brattain from Bell labs made our world possible. What's sad is how the youth today dont take the time to learn abt how all the tech they use came to be and how it wirks. Yea they can use a smartphone but have no idea how it works. I wish everyonecould havee grown up in the late 80s early 90s to see how it all came together. And before the keyboard warriors have a fit, i know not everyone is like that today, but in general thats a true statement.
Rita Hayworth?
@LA_HA Hedy Lamarr was behind early wi-fi, gps, bluetooth with her frequency hopping tech. If thats what youre asking
@@nathanmclaughlin304 Yes, that's what I was thinking. I Knew I was getting it mixed up but couldn't think of it... and of course, I refused to go online and look it up. Hahaha.
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06:34 Imagine this, bro: Before GPS, I was able to navigate all around anywhere in the entire US using a pleather-bound US paper Atlas from AAA (auto club.)
My first GPS map thing on a phone was prob 2005, when I went to drive from LA up to the Santa Cruz mountains with my dog to go camping up the 5. It's a straight shot on the 5 for hours, so I just left the GPS on, so it would remind me of the turn onto the 152. Got up there fine, had a nice time, returned to LA.
My next phone bill, instead of like $40, it was like $300. I didn't realize back then, Verizon charged you per-minute for internet access of any kind. I got out of it, but DAMN!
Advent of attachments in 1992?
Sorry, but that's wrong. I don't know who started it, but we were using attachments in 1986 on the Atari 8-bit and through BBS' (bulletin board systems). It was around 86 anyway. My father was so excited to be able to directly send articles and programming innovations to a variety of people.
My father was a programmer for the Atari 8bit until 2013. And yes, people still use and program on the system to this day. I keep a few systems around for gaming purposes. Dad collected atari's and a variety of hardware as I grew up. Came in handy :)
Paper maps were a pain. GPS is amazing!