Honorable mention to what could have been number one: the transistor. It is the thing that made the electronic world possible as we know it today. Internet, computers, phones, etc. can be controlled by small complex circuits instead of massive vacuum tubes. The impact of the transistor is akin to the wheel or the lever and pulley. While it the concept wasn't uniquely American, the oldest known functional transistor was created at Bell labs in New Jersey.
Totally agree. People that create this type of content shouldn't hold to a rounded top 5, 10, 25 format. They should just list the items, regardless of rounded 5 number or not. Afternoon, where would we be today without the transistor?
Good point. And the transistor all seemed to go hand in hand with other great inventions. The concept of the transistor could not have been visualized without the pioneering work of developing techniques of amplification in vacuum tubes first. Probably more than any other man responsible for this was E Howard Armstrong. He first discovered the principle of positive feedback in signal amplification in tubes in about 1912 that made radio communication possible. He also developed the superheterodyne process which is the backbone of the AM radio. Tens of millions of am radios were sold all over America from the 1920s through the 1950s. Before the internet this was the first invention to connect the entire world. After this, Armstrong developed the FM radio broadcast system. While all of this was happening, other engineers were developing the television broadcast system. Another great invention, that was not mentioned in this video. All of these systems were perfected with tubes before transistors began to be marketed on a mass scale in the late 1950s. And of course, as you say, the transistor made all of the modern computer technology possible today.
A historian once summarized inventions like this… Middle East gave us civilization, Europe gave us industry and machines, and America brought us to the modern age.
@@dingus6317 Most European inventions where inspired by Chinese interventions during the silk road trade expeditions. They also introduced Europe to pasta and most of the spices used today.
@@strikercwl True but then the Chinese became kind of arrogant and turned isolationist and looked inward for like 1000 years and Europe innovated ahead
@@dingus6317 Yes, which lead to many civil wars and the rise and fall of several dynasties. An important lesson for those against foreign trade and immigration.
@@strikercwl Too much of anything can be harmful, even water. Europe and the west have gone too far with their global liberalism this time and must take steps to limit immigration through nationalism and protect their economies through protectionism without going too far and becoming fully isolationist.
@@53kenner I know, that was for future such videos as they don't seem to understand the importance of various inventions. Not including the transistor was quite insane
We also invented the emoticon in the early 1980s I was posting on DARPANET (the son of ARPANET) by posting to a bulletin board. IT soon broke up into multiple groups to cover the wide range of interests. This led on of the posters to realize that sarcasm and humor were often misunderstood. He used a dragon's breath as a symbol of attack, thusly:
I think the transistor is among the most important thing to have ever be invented it basically made the world a village we could finally communicate without mobility
Other notable American inventions: Television, Phonograph ( music recorder/player) , Atomic Bombs, Plastic, Mobile Phone, Modern Electrical Air Conditioner, Vacuum Cleaner, Video Game, and Electric Guitar.
Most of these inventions were made for military and warfare. As devastating as war can be. A lot of innovation progressed under the guise of a military budget.
The assembly line was used WELL before any car company used it. It was primarily used to success for major manufacturing by Milton Hershey of Hershey's Chocolate. In fact, car manufacturer's, primarily Henry Ford, came to Hershey to study how it worked and how he could use it. It is a LIE that Henry Ford "invented" the assembly line.
Ford also witnessed a fully-functioning assembly line in Oshawa, Ontario, Canada, at the McLaughlin carriage works, that was turning out a complete carriage every five minutes. This was even more directly relevant to the automobile assembly line. Ford's real innovation was marketing cars to the middle class instead of to the rich, not the assembly line. The assembly line was useful to achieve that marketing goal, but it was a concept established long before he applied it there.
My school in Houston had a permanent T-1 telephone connection to the mainframe at the University of Chicago across the country. In 1978, I sent my first email to the professor heading the Computer Science Department in Chicago, thanking him for giving us ARPAnet access and giving him my name so he could assign me an email, which he used to respond. I typed it on a teletype -- we had no screens, just rolls of paper. The response came several days later and I got my first email by hard copy, as there was no other choice, and my computer science teacher had already printed it out. I never used that email address, as I didn't have anyone to write to and I didn't know how the bulletin board server system worked, or how to research any of it. I had one hour twice a week to share a teletype with a partner. And we had to be frugal with paper, not printing out long instructions or pictures, even if I'd somehow known how and where to look for what I wanted to know.
That's so cool! My first job was in high tech in 1987, and I learned Unix through this position and was able to send email, along with other cool things until Linux came around in the 90's. I also used BBL's or bulletin boards, which at the time was the coolest thing ever. I was very lucky to be in the right place at the right time. I changed tapes for backups, maintained a mainframe, and basically learned on the job.
Yep, wrote my first computer program on a teletype machine ..... no disk drives of any kind so had to save my code on punch paper roll. To reload the program into computer we fed it our punch paper. And we thought this was so amazing back in the day.
@@scottharvey6892 Yeah, ours at school had a constant punch tape running that rolled out of one box and rolled up into an old box. Somebody from the DoD or whoever came every month to pick up the punch tape. And they would compare every keystroke against their electronic records to make sure our ARPAnet access wasn't being misused. Different times.
Blood plasma, street stop light, open heart surgery, self lubricating machinery, artificial sweetener, logic machines, ratcheting hand tools, Velcro, freeze dried foods and drinks, wifi- the godmother of wifi was a famous actress during ww2, she also invented gyroscopic equipment and aiming sites, which made our bomber planes and torpedo submarines far more accurate, the folding legs spring activated ironing board, the self incripting telephone. I could go on.
One big missing invention was the television set. Amazing story. Philo Farnsworth was the son of tenant farmers whose family ended up moving to a house with Scientific American magazines up in the attic. From there he taught himself most everything. When he invented the television set, all his competitors were so far off they were using mechanical devises to cast shadows of images with no clear means for how to produce a real image. Farnsworth not only invented the television, he invented the means to transmit the signal and capture it on the other end. Amazing man. A bit of a sad story at the end because he got a patent on it just before WWII and no one was interested until after the war. After the war nobody wanted to buy it because they could see his patent would expire soon. (Back in those days, I believe patents were for only ten years, not like the twenty-year patents of today.) Because of this, even to this day, few people recognize his name. But if you ask me, for what he did, self-taught and essentially taking the idea from concept to completed invention with no one else he stood on the shoulders of--and leaving everyone else far behind--was just mind blowing. It truly was a miracle for people to see the world in motion on a box in their home with the signal sent unseen through the air. I can't give this guy enough credit. Truly one of the greatest inventors of all time.
I think the transistor is among the most important thing to have ever be invented it basically made the world a village we could finally communicate without
I would also say, the fact that people from all over the world populated this nation means the credit for these things are widely dispersed. What's unique is that all the European, Asian and African baggage from history coexist on one continent and weve only had one civil war. We've gotten a lot wrong because we're populated by human beings, but if this kind of power had fallen into the hands of France, China, Germany, Brazil, or whomever, it would've gone down a lot differently. We'll keep on screwing up because, well,humans, but the story is unique in our history. As I heard one young man state years ago, "We're not better than everyone else, we ARE everyone else."
The idea of interchangeable parts is so normal to us now that it is hard to imagine a world without it but machines used to be made as a whole with parts that only worked with the other parts of the machine it was made for. To make it work does require careful control of accuracy.
There are several things that make America the land of invention. First is freedom. The second is the ability to profit from what you invent. Many places around don't recognize this fundamental right of the individual or business. Since they can't profit from invention, many people in different parts of the world don't bother with the work that is needed to invent something
As a 5th generation American what lead and still leads the world in innovation is the US welcomes immigrates with new ideas and looking for the opportunity to work hard and make them a reality. Every growing and ever youthful if the US were to close our borders like nations like Cuba we would be stuck in the past.
During the American civil war we produced over a million revolver type hand guns. They were all based on interchangeable parts. The British were spoiled at our 1851 colt produced quickly by relatively unskilled workers without custom fitting. Also broken guns can be repaired quickly in the field with out of the box parts. In WWII Roles Royce Merlin engines were in desperate need. The American Packard car Co began building them under license. They were horrified. The engine needed to be redesigned to much tighter tolerances for mass production.
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You're thinking of the Zuse Z3, the first working programmable digital computer in 1941, but was lost to allied bombing of Germany in 1945. Britain's Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace created the first "computer". Charles came up with the design of the Difference Engine. Ada funded the building, she worked with him on the math and also wrote the first program for the engine. Ada is, therefore, known as the world's first programmer. American Herman Hollerith created the modern tabulation machine using punch cards and the US was the first government to use a computer, tabulation of the US Census. It also ushered in the era of mechanized binary systems and semi-automatic processing systems. Herman Hollerith is one of the founders of IBM, founded in 1911 as the Computer-Tabulating-Recording Company, later changed to IBM. What should be mentioned here is the invention of the Transistor, where would the world be without it today? The creator of the content shouldn't keep to a top 10, I dislike when they do this.
I forgot to mention... The first US Census to use a computer was the 1890 census. This was the Herman Hollerith tabulation computer. Then 20 years later would combine his company with others to form IBM.
Here's another one. Do you like your cell phone? Look up the actress Hedy Lamar, who was born in Austria and came to the U.S. during WW2. Yes, she was an beautiful actress. She was also an absolute genius at engineering. Every heard of Bluetooth?? Yeah plus virtually everything to do with wireless communication. As we say in Texas; y'all be safe.
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Sorry if this is a duplicate. I've got problems with my comments just disappearing. Sometimes they come back, usually they don't. One big missing invention was the television set. Amazing story. Philo Farnsworth was the son of tenant farmers whose family ended up moving to a house with Scientific American magazines up in the attic. From there he taught himself most everything. When he invented the television set, all his competitors were so far off they were using mechanical devises to cast shadows of images with no clear means for how to produce a real image. Farnsworth not only invented the television, he invented the means to transmit the signal and capture it on the other end. Amazing man. A bit of a sad story at the end because he got a patent on it just before WWII and no one was interested until after the war. After the war nobody wanted to buy it because they could see his patent would expire soon. (Back in those days, I believe patents were for only ten years, not like the twenty-year patents of today.) Because of this, even to this day, few people recognize his name. But if you ask me, for what he did, self-taught and essentially taking the idea from concept to completed invention with no one else he stood on the shoulders of--and leaving everyone else far behind--was just mind blowing. It truly was a miracle for people to see the world in motion on a box in their home with the signal sent unseen through the air. I can't give this guy enough credit. Truly one of the greatest inventors of all time.
Being a nation of immigrants, our biggest benefit, allows for mindsets, and traditions around the world to integrate and cooperate in ways other civilizations never could. THAT is what America needs to remember and hold dear. Without that, we would not be where we are as a Country, or Planet. EVERY people on the planet have something to offer mankind, America just makes COLLABORATION easier. So as an American, THANK YOU WORLD for having such diversity.........We also love having a choice of every type of world cuisine being brought from every corner of the globe:)
More like German inventions dropped off after losing ww2. All the way up til the end they were still going pretty wild, V2 rockets and nuclear research, the modern assault rifle, squad machine guns.
@@Lithane97 yes, and many of the scientists from Germany ended up in the US as we were the least hostile to Germans since they didn't destroy our country. I can understand the animosity of the Europeans though. Its hard to separate the regular germans from the government.
The German video you reacted to was about people of German decent, and this video is about what was invented in the USA. Both are accurate for what they are saying, but are actually different topics. And don’t ask me which is more accurate or right, it is good to know both histories, but for us today, we shouldn’t forget the past, but must remember we live in the present. Live a full life and enjoy yourself
4:00 The first recorded instance of a computer bug occurred on September 9, 1945, when a moth was found stuck between the relays of the Harvard Mark II computer
@@alphadog9211 yes and "Debugging" is the literal removal of bugs from the computer... ironically "if it ain't broke don't fix" Sidenote/Joke: The spiked tail of a stegosaurus is called a "thagomizer" named by a FAR SIDE comic strip and has been adopted by paleontologist
When did I first use the internet? Sometime around 1977-1978. There was no monitors and mice were extremely rare. You dealt with analog phone lines, dot matrix printers and storage of data on audio tapes which held up to 4k of memory. Yes, that's less than 4,000 characters. Most locations only had bulletin boards, but there was always undisclosed files, directories, and programs not publicly known which is why hackers developed to try and find those hidden gems. One of my favorite programs I liked to use was a web snake, which I directed to search and glean sources and architectural structures of internet addresses.
Almost all modern technology has its origins in England, the United States, Germany, or France. Of course other countries - especially in Europe - contributed, but these four were giants.
I found out a few weeks ago, that EMI in London had many technological research businesses as well as a recording company. They had put many of their projects on hold in the 50s when the budget was too low for experiementation. After the Beatles sold millions of records, their projects were once again funded and the within 2 years the CT scan was invented. The Beatles helped fund medical science.
The Iniac was the first totally electronic computer patented by University of Pennsylvania professors Eckhart and Mauchley. They sold the patent to Sperry Rand (inventors of the gyroscope and bombsite). They renamed their computers Univac, The first commercially available computers. IBM and others paid royalties to Sperry for 25 years into the 1970s.
The airplane in the thumbnail is the 14-Bis, invented by a brazilian, Alberto Santos-Dummont which made the first recorded flight in 1906 in front of an audience. Wright Brothers invented the mechanism to tilt, roll, etc, but most of their reports are fishy, although they do seem to be the first to fly in 1905. Anyway, depending on your definition of "airplane", americans didn't invent it.
I would put the lightning rod on this list. Though the first demonstrated example was invented by a Czech inventor, Benjamin Franklin (unaware of the other) made a practical version that saved countless buildings in North America and Europe from destruction by fire. Franklin recognized how important the lightning rod would be, and published the design rather than patenting it, so it might be more widely used. One might consider this a British invention, however, as the United States didn't exist yet in 1752.
Hey guys I live in Ft Myers Florida… where the Edison Home and laboratory is. I’ve been on the tour several times. Every year around Christmas we have a huge parade and celebration called “The Edison Festival Of Light” with all the floats in the parade with as many lights as possible.
In 1994 I worked for a publishing company that created the first World Wide Web Yellow Pages, an 800-page volume of websites. Anyway, I edited the foreword to the book, which was written by Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the web. The web is the pretty, visual, and hyperlinked version of the internet that we use now. My cousin from my grandfather's generation was Dr. Edwin Land. He invented the Polaroid camera, polarized sunglasses, and 300+ other things. He was an interesting cat. He's number 3 on the US patents list after Edison and Thomson for number of patents.
Bell's parents were deaf. he was attempting to create s device which would enable them to communicate with the hearing. by trying to help his parents he ended up helping us all.
The German Z3 digital computer was completed in 1941. The Germans lacked the foresight to appreciate the potential applications of their invention, so the project was shelved after being used to solve an issue regarding aerodynamics. The computer, being about the size of a truck & stored in the German capital of Berlin, was flattened by Allied Air Raids in 1943 and surpassed by original research while it was awaiting rediscovery. It's now a curiosity.
My grand mother said the electric light was the most amazing thing ever, she said when they put up lamp poles up in her town she would take walks after dark.
If you think freedom is an American invention, you need to study a little history. Also, America is not the only free country, the American president is not the "leader of the free world", and those that claim such are not being patriotic but just arrogantly ignorant.
In the late 1700's a Hessian soldier (part of the Prussian/German empire) designed an adding machine, a very primitive form of a mechanical computer but he never built it. Charles Babbage from England designed the first successful mechanical computer in the 1820's. When they say the first "modern" computer, they mean a computer using electronics, even if they were vacuum tubes. The German Government bought an early computer in the late 1930's from IBM. Unfortunately one of the tasks they used it for was to calculate their victims in the concentration camps. In the 1950's, a pair of Americans invented the transistor, which reduced the size and energy consumption of electronic devices from computers to portable radios and led to the microchip.
Edison's and employees found the filament that worked best, not Edison himself. They tried over 3,000 different combinations of substances and materials.
The grunts never get any credit, especially back then. Sometimes they deserve more credit and sometimes they got all they deserve by getting paid a salary. If the guy who ate to many paint chips as a kid is shoveling coal into the furnace, does he deserve credit for the invention of the light bulb as well? If however Edison was just chilling on the back porch sipping on cold snacks every day and had no part in the creation at all, then that's another story. I think he was more "hands on" though judging by hearing stories about him and his workshop that is preserved at The Henry Ford museum I believe. I imagine he was no saint though, more businessman than than saint but I am no expert on him.
Thomas Edison and his team won the race to invent the light bulb because they faked it, he knew it was only a matter of time before they would find a filament that worked so he told the world he had done it and faked the tests, he had a bulb that would last a minute or so and brought in reporters turned the light on then rush the reporters out of the room change the buld and showed another group of reporters. This allowed him the time to get it right as the other people trying to invent a light bulb gave up thanking the problem was already solved.
Good post but also remember America is only 248 year old, were just a baby as countries go. The world's first fully synthetic plastic was Bakelite, invented in New York in 1907, by Leo Baekeland, who coined the term "plastics". In 1861, in New Jersey, gasoline. Duct tape The year was 1943 and Stoudt, who had two sons serving in the U.S. Navy, was working at the Green River Ordnance Plant near Amboy, Illinois. The first handheld mobile phone was demonstrated by Martin Cooper of Motorola in New York City on 3 April 1973. A car phone is a mobile radio telephone specifically designed for and fitted into an automobile. This service originated with the Bell System and was first used in St. Louis, Missouri, United States, on June 17, 1946.
It's hard to pin down the precise point at which the "computer" was invented. Technically, the ancient abacus as well as some clockwork inventions from the Hellenistic world and other devices could be considered "computers" depending on how broadly you define the term. American Vannevar Bush at MIT apparently built the first analog mechanical computer that was more than just a calculator in 1931. German Konrad Zuse built the first *digital* electric computer in 1941. Germany led the world, rivaled only by Britain, in scientific discovery during the 19th and first part of the 20th Centuries and were very advanced in engineering and the Liberal Arts as well. German is still an important scholarly language in many disciplines even today. The French also played a major part. Yet, it was the much less intellectually-prestigious young United States that led in the production of practical, commercially-vulable inventions for everyday use. This was, among other things, due to the commercial drive of American invention and the large American market. People like Bell and Edison were starting, running, and competing with businesses rather than being university scientists or gentleman scholars. Of course, the US also had very capable scientific and scholarly institutions as well, which, though not as prestigious, were as capable as any in Europe.
Eli Whitney was contracted to produce 12000 muskets and true full interchangeably of components on a mass production scale didn't happen until after his death
One important one wasn't mentioned. Understandable Nuclear Fission. While it's initial usage was nothing short of horrific, it led to far more important discoveries, such as radiation treatment for cancer, refined safer X-ray machines, and Nuclear power plants.
The first electronic computers were made to Fight the Germans. Alan Turing built his computer to break the Enigma Cypher and America made a Much larger all electronic version after Turing's success.
One honorable (or perhaps dishonorable) mention would be fast food, invented by the McDonald's brothers (Maurice & Richard McDonald) in 1948. They managed to take what was originally a slow sitdown restaurant and made it so they could pump out burgers within 5 to 10 minutes without fail.
Louis Latimer (a black America man) working for Thomas Edison invented the filament for the light bulb. Edison had over one thousand engineers working for him. always putting only his named on the patent for their inventions and innovations.
And these are some of the inventions but if you add technology that was improved in America the number climbs fast. Everything from refrigeration, farming, and construction to warfare, shopping, energy production, and even food dishes.
Innovation and widespread adoption of new technologies do not happen in a vacuum. It takes capital and resources to incubate and market modern technologies, and by 1890 the United States was the largest manufacturing economy in the world. That generated an influx of capital and people who could both generate and utilize new technologies. The final ingredient was the most extensive -- and ultimately the most accessible -- university system in the world. By the end of WWII, as the sole surviving major economy, the equation was capital + human resources + consumer spending = innovation. Every other economy has been racing to duplicate that formula ever since. Many countries have, in fact, duplicated it very successfully.
Not that is maters much but the guy dressed as Charlie Chaplin in the Apple advertisement for the MacCharlie computer was my parent's friend, I used to know him when I was a child and he would babysit me. The Arpanet which started the internet is the biggest thing ever. Next to Nuclear bombs.
Germany had a lot of technological advances. I think what you're thinking of is the Enigma Machine. Germany's coding device that they used to securely send messages, it was quite a wonder in and of itself. But the Turing Machine created to break the code, made by Alan Turing, was a "Abstract computation model", kind of a giant calculator. It wasn't the first computer in definition, but was the first big jump toward it. But if not for Germany, it's purpose and creation likely wouldn't have been there.
Maybe "they" are thinking of the Enigma machine, which wasn't a computer in any sense, but the Zuse Z3, operational in 1941, was a Turing-complete digital machine.
Actually, Edison didn't create his own lightbulb. He bought it from two Canadians for 50 thousand dollars, tweaked it a little and mass produced it. The telephone is another Canadian invention; as it was *invented* in Canada and only *sold* in the states.
Thomas Edison won the race to invent the light bulb because he faked it, he knew it was only a matter of time before he would find a filament that worked, so he told the world he had done it and faked the tests, he had a bulb that would last a minute or so and brought in reporters turned the light on then rush the reporter out of the room change the buld and showed in another reporter. This allowed him the time to get it right as the other people trying to invent a light bulb gave up, thanking the problem was already solved.
An important thing to remember about inventing and genius in general. Someone once asked Sir Issac Newton what it was like to be so brilliant (more or less). His response was that if he saw far, it's because he stood on the shoulders of giants. He meant that everything builds on the work and genius of those who came before, nothing is invented in a vacuum.
There's like half a dozen inventors of the airplane recognized by different countries. The unique thing the Wright brothers have going for their claim is that their aircraft was the one that led to the aviation industry.
@@Rasfa no catapult silly 😜, it was launched on a rail and it was powered by a gasoline engine. Still grasping at straws in an attempt to be relevant I see....
FWIW: The Airplane, and Aviation in general, are my greatest passions...👍 ALSO FWIW: Despite some of the _insanity_ the Internet has brought us, it has also allowed regular 'People Like Us' to communicate all around the world. I was born in 1961. When I was a kid -- and even when I was a teenager -- the idea of watching ON MY PHONE a video shot by a man and woman in India would have seemed absolute science fiction. Not today. Before the Internet the closest thing we had was Amateur {HAM} Radio, which is STILL a fascinating technology.
In 1913, Henry Ford invented the moving assembly line which was a huge upgrade on the assembly line. I used to work at a factory and our assembly line vs moving assembly line demonstration produced 7 times as much with the same number of people, the same amount of effort, and had 1/10th as much work in progress. Ford Model T's went from taking 12 hours to produce before the moving assembly line was implemented, down to 1 1/2 hours after it was implemented.
No he did NOT!!! He went to Milton Hershey to figure out how it was done because Milton Hershey was doing it as a major manufacturer to great success well before any car company. Ford actually studied the Hershey plant and went from there to his. What you are repeating is false history. Please don't. Google is wrong.
India was not the first country to invent the concept of zero. The first recorded use of a zero-like symbol dates to sometime around the third century B.C. in ancient Babylon. The Mayans independently invented the concept of zero around 350 CE, however these early counting systems only saw the zero as a placeholder-not a number with its own unique value or properties. A full grasp of zero’s importance would not arrive until the seventh century C.E. in India. There, the mathematician Brahmagupta and others used small dots under numbers to show a zero placeholder, but they also viewed the zero as having a null value, called “sunya.” Brahmagupta was also the first to show that subtracting a number from itself results in zero. From India, the zero made its way to China and back to the Middle East, where it was taken up by the mathematician Mohammed ibn-Musa al-Khowarizmi around 773 CE. He studied and synthesized Indian arithmetic and showed how zero functioned in the system of formulas he called ‘al-jabr’-today known as algebra. By the 10th century, the zero had entered the Arabic numeral system in a form resembling the oval shape we use today. The zero continued to migrate for another few centuries before finally reaching Europe sometime around the 1100s.
May 12, 1941 Konrad Zuse invented the Computer in berlin The USA made computers accessible to the masses but in the end we can say Humans from Earth done it in the end 6000 B.C. the first boats were invented which were later used to bring the first settlers to America
The Integrated Circuit, The Microprocessor, The Transister, GUI Hypertext links, OS computer operating systems, Video Games, The Video Game consol (Magnavox Odyssy,) The Computer Mouse, The keyboard QWERTY/typewriter, Floppy Disks, The Kodak camera, WLAN Alohanet Wifi, Not only the phone, the Cell phone, The LED light replacing Edisin bulbs, Step aside Edison, Tesla had better ideas. AC alternating current that runs through our grids, Induction motor, The Tesla Coil, The Transformer.
Music videos were already a thing years before that. There just wasn't a network dedicated to playing them. MTV played mostly British bands in its early years because they had produced music videos more than 10 years by then and had a greater inventory.
@@axelpalfy7597 US scientists created the process to force nuclear fusion. They did the same with Nuclear Fission. The original use for both was bombs - the Hydrogen Bomb (Fission/Fusion), and the Uranium/Plutonium bombs (Fission).
@@davidolson3776 ou don't have to explain to me what fusion is and what is friction, the video is about American inventions, and fusion has been here since the beginning of the world, the Americans didn't invent it :-))and the fusion reactor was invented by Russian scientists, speaking of which
@@davidolson3776 Fission was actually discovered in Germany, but the US made it practical. Fusion was first demonstrated in a laboratory in the UK, but still isn't practical.
My alma mater (UCLA) gets proper credit for inventing #1 on the list. UCLA programmed a computer in 1969, to dial-up a computer at Stanford. The connection failed because Stanford had a faulty line in the code three lines into the program. It is safe to say UCLA invented the internet and Stanford was the first the screw it up.
Utah alone has had some inventions that have had an impact on the world. The Colt revolver and Henry repeating rifles. The electric traffic light. The first computer game. The Television. Headphones. Car stereo and stereophonic recording. Word processing. The frisbee. First permanent artificial heart. The electric guitar. Computer animation software. And others. Though it wasn't invented in Utah, the Zamboni was invented by someone from Utah.
John Peake Knight, a British railway manager, is credited with inventing the first traffic light in 1868. He suggested adapting a railroad method for controlling traffic, which led to the installation of the world's first traffic signal in London.
@@machineman268 I didn't say Traffic Signal, nor did I say Gas Traffic Light, I said electric traffic light, the first one was set up in downtown Salt Lake City. It was nicknamed Lester's Pigeon Box because of its resemblance to a birdhouse.
@@johnbrobston1334 The Winchester and Colt companies bought many of John Moses Browning's, yet when they manufactured John's designs they chose not to put his name on them or give John any credit. From the 1920s to the 1980s the United States military used almost nothing but John Browning designed guns. A few of John's guns are still used by the military over a hundred years after their invention.
Honorable mention to what could have been number one: the transistor. It is the thing that made the electronic world possible as we know it today. Internet, computers, phones, etc. can be controlled by small complex circuits instead of massive vacuum tubes. The impact of the transistor is akin to the wheel or the lever and pulley. While it the concept wasn't uniquely American, the oldest known functional transistor was created at Bell labs in New Jersey.
I think it's way more than an honorable mention.
Totally agree. People that create this type of content shouldn't hold to a rounded top 5, 10, 25 format. They should just list the items, regardless of rounded 5 number or not. Afternoon, where would we be today without the transistor?
Good point. And the transistor all seemed to go hand in hand with other great inventions. The concept of the transistor could not have been visualized without the pioneering work of developing techniques of amplification in vacuum tubes first. Probably more than any other man responsible for this was E Howard Armstrong. He first discovered the principle of positive feedback in signal amplification in tubes in about 1912 that made radio communication possible. He also developed the superheterodyne process which is the backbone of the AM radio. Tens of millions of am radios were sold all over America from the 1920s through the 1950s. Before the internet this was the first invention to connect the entire world. After this, Armstrong developed the FM radio broadcast system. While all of this was happening, other engineers were developing the television broadcast system. Another great invention, that was not mentioned in this video.
All of these systems were perfected with tubes before transistors began to be marketed on a mass scale in the late 1950s. And of course, as you say, the transistor made all of the modern computer technology possible today.
I as expecting it to #1. Incredible to not have it in a top 10 list.
the transistor is probably the #1 20th century invention
A historian once summarized inventions like this… Middle East gave us civilization, Europe gave us industry and machines, and America brought us to the modern age.
The same inventor genes
@@dingus6317 Most European inventions where inspired by Chinese interventions during the silk road trade expeditions. They also introduced Europe to pasta and most of the spices used today.
@@strikercwl True but then the Chinese became kind of arrogant and turned isolationist and looked inward for like 1000 years and Europe innovated ahead
@@dingus6317 Yes, which lead to many civil wars and the rise and fall of several dynasties. An important lesson for those against foreign trade and immigration.
@@strikercwl Too much of anything can be harmful, even water. Europe and the west have gone too far with their global liberalism this time and must take steps to limit immigration through nationalism and protect their economies through protectionism without going too far and becoming fully isolationist.
They forgot the biggest invention of the 20th century. The TRANSISTOR Also the FIRST telecommunications device. The Telegraph
The telegraph was first half of the 19th Century. The telephone was invented in the 1870s.
@@53kenner I know, that was for future such videos as they don't seem to understand the importance of various inventions. Not including the transistor was quite insane
We also invented the emoticon in the early 1980s I was posting on DARPANET (the son of ARPANET) by posting to a bulletin board. IT soon broke up into multiple groups to cover the wide range of interests. This led on of the posters to realize that sarcasm and humor were often misunderstood. He used a dragon's breath as a symbol of attack, thusly:
@@jamesblossom-y1u We also invented online shopping. I was buying computers at an online store in 1885
I think the transistor is among the most important thing to have ever be invented it basically made the world a village we could finally communicate without mobility
Other notable American inventions: Television, Phonograph ( music recorder/player) , Atomic Bombs, Plastic, Mobile Phone, Modern Electrical Air Conditioner, Vacuum Cleaner, Video Game, and Electric Guitar.
Most of these inventions were made for military and warfare. As devastating as war can be. A lot of innovation progressed under the guise of a military budget.
Personally, I wouldn't say that most were made for that purpose. But I agree that they were quickly adopted and adapted for the military and warfare.
The assembly line was used WELL before any car company used it. It was primarily used to success for major manufacturing by Milton Hershey of Hershey's Chocolate. In fact, car manufacturer's, primarily Henry Ford, came to Hershey to study how it worked and how he could use it. It is a LIE that Henry Ford "invented" the assembly line.
Ford also witnessed a fully-functioning assembly line in Oshawa, Ontario, Canada, at the McLaughlin carriage works, that was turning out a complete carriage every five minutes. This was even more directly relevant to the automobile assembly line. Ford's real innovation was marketing cars to the middle class instead of to the rich, not the assembly line. The assembly line was useful to achieve that marketing goal, but it was a concept established long before he applied it there.
My school in Houston had a permanent T-1 telephone connection to the mainframe at the University of Chicago across the country. In 1978, I sent my first email to the professor heading the Computer Science Department in Chicago, thanking him for giving us ARPAnet access and giving him my name so he could assign me an email, which he used to respond. I typed it on a teletype -- we had no screens, just rolls of paper. The response came several days later and I got my first email by hard copy, as there was no other choice, and my computer science teacher had already printed it out. I never used that email address, as I didn't have anyone to write to and I didn't know how the bulletin board server system worked, or how to research any of it. I had one hour twice a week to share a teletype with a partner. And we had to be frugal with paper, not printing out long instructions or pictures, even if I'd somehow known how and where to look for what I wanted to know.
That's so cool!
My first job was in high tech in 1987, and I learned Unix through this position and was able to send email, along with other cool things until Linux came around in the 90's. I also used BBL's or bulletin boards, which at the time was the coolest thing ever. I was very lucky to be in the right place at the right time. I changed tapes for backups, maintained a mainframe, and basically learned on the job.
Go on, your kidding right🤷wait what the hell is that anyway😂😂😂😂
Yep, wrote my first computer program on a teletype machine ..... no disk drives of any kind so had to save my code on punch paper roll. To reload the program into computer we fed it our punch paper. And we thought this was so amazing back in the day.
@@tim2024-df5fuNot so weird, it’s the school for nuclear propulsion for the Navy. Not all Navy bases are pier side.
@@scottharvey6892 Yeah, ours at school had a constant punch tape running that rolled out of one box and rolled up into an old box. Somebody from the DoD or whoever came every month to pick up the punch tape. And they would compare every keystroke against their electronic records to make sure our ARPAnet access wasn't being misused. Different times.
Blood plasma, street stop light, open heart surgery, self lubricating machinery, artificial sweetener, logic machines, ratcheting hand tools, Velcro, freeze dried foods and drinks, wifi- the godmother of wifi was a famous actress during ww2, she also invented gyroscopic equipment and aiming sites, which made our bomber planes and torpedo submarines far more accurate, the folding legs spring activated ironing board, the self incripting telephone. I could go on.
Hedy Lamar.
@@davidlipman8093 Poor Ms. Lamar, all she has done and whenever I hear her name, all I can picture is Harvey Corman.
don't forget the microwave. i couldn't survive without one.
@@bluebird3281That's Headly!😂
Uh, Velcro is a Swiss invention, not American, and its development, contrary to popular belief, had nothing to do with the space program.
One big missing invention was the television set. Amazing story. Philo Farnsworth was the son of tenant farmers whose family ended up moving to a house with Scientific American magazines up in the attic. From there he taught himself most everything. When he invented the television set, all his competitors were so far off they were using mechanical devises to cast shadows of images with no clear means for how to produce a real image. Farnsworth not only invented the television, he invented the means to transmit the signal and capture it on the other end. Amazing man. A bit of a sad story at the end because he got a patent on it just before WWII and no one was interested until after the war. After the war nobody wanted to buy it because they could see his patent would expire soon. (Back in those days, I believe patents were for only ten years, not like the twenty-year patents of today.) Because of this, even to this day, few people recognize his name. But if you ask me, for what he did, self-taught and essentially taking the idea from concept to completed invention with no one else he stood on the shoulders of--and leaving everyone else far behind--was just mind blowing. It truly was a miracle for people to see the world in motion on a box in their home with the signal sent unseen through the air. I can't give this guy enough credit. Truly one of the greatest inventors of all time.
The vacuum tube triode (1906) heralded the new field of electronics.
I think the transistor is among the most important thing to have ever be invented it basically made the world a village we could finally communicate without
I would also say, the fact that people from all over the world populated this nation means the credit for these things are widely dispersed. What's unique is that all the European, Asian and African baggage from history coexist on one continent and weve only had one civil war. We've gotten a lot wrong because we're populated by human beings, but if this kind of power had fallen into the hands of France, China, Germany, Brazil, or whomever, it would've gone down a lot differently. We'll keep on screwing up because, well,humans, but the story is unique in our history. As I heard one young man state years ago, "We're not better than everyone else, we ARE everyone else."
The idea of interchangeable parts is so normal to us now that it is hard to imagine a world without it but machines used to be made as a whole with parts that only worked with the other parts of the machine it was made for. To make it work does require careful control of accuracy.
There are several things that make America the land of invention. First is freedom. The second is the ability to profit from what you invent. Many places around don't recognize this fundamental right of the individual or business. Since they can't profit from invention, many people in different parts of the world don't bother with the work that is needed to invent something
As a 5th generation American what lead and still leads the world in innovation is the US welcomes immigrates with new ideas and looking for the opportunity to work hard and make them a reality. Every growing and ever youthful if the US were to close our borders like nations like Cuba we would be stuck in the past.
During the American civil war we produced over a million revolver type hand guns. They were all based on interchangeable parts. The British were spoiled at our 1851 colt produced quickly by relatively unskilled workers without custom fitting. Also broken guns can be repaired quickly in the field with out of the box parts. In WWII Roles Royce Merlin engines were in desperate need. The American Packard car Co began building them under license. They were horrified. The engine needed to be redesigned to much tighter tolerances for mass production.
Ford did that.
When Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone he already had 3 missed calls from Chuck Norris.
The third call by Chuck Norris he left a message on an answering machine.
Chuck Norris does not eat honey, he chews bees.
Some magicians can walk on water. Chuck Norris can swim through land.
Chuck Norris can pop a wheelie on a unicycle...😊
You're thinking of the Zuse Z3, the first working programmable digital computer in 1941, but was lost to allied bombing of Germany in 1945. Britain's Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace created the first "computer". Charles came up with the design of the Difference Engine. Ada funded the building, she worked with him on the math and also wrote the first program for the engine. Ada is, therefore, known as the world's first programmer. American Herman Hollerith created the modern tabulation machine using punch cards and the US was the first government to use a computer, tabulation of the US Census. It also ushered in the era of mechanized binary systems and semi-automatic processing systems. Herman Hollerith is one of the founders of IBM, founded in 1911 as the Computer-Tabulating-Recording Company, later changed to IBM. What should be mentioned here is the invention of the Transistor, where would the world be without it today? The creator of the content shouldn't keep to a top 10, I dislike when they do this.
I forgot to mention... The first US Census to use a computer was the 1890 census. This was the Herman Hollerith tabulation computer. Then 20 years later would combine his company with others to form IBM.
Here's another one. Do you like your cell phone? Look up the actress Hedy Lamar, who was born in Austria and came to the U.S. during WW2. Yes, she was an beautiful actress. She was also an absolute genius at engineering. Every heard of Bluetooth?? Yeah plus virtually everything to do with wireless communication.
As we say in Texas; y'all be safe.
thats hedley lol blazing saddles
@@stevenruvolo499 Well that very funny because you have no idea who I am talking about. LOL
@@Gort-Marvin0Martian yes I do
concept. not that she made it work.
@@stevenruvolo499 Hedley Lamarr was a dude
im 0:26 in the video and already know I love the common sense provided and moreover this extreme energy of enjoyment presented by The Loud Guys channel in the production of their content! outstanding first impression!
Sorry if this is a duplicate. I've got problems with my comments just disappearing. Sometimes they come back, usually they don't.
One big missing invention was the television set. Amazing story. Philo Farnsworth was the son of tenant farmers whose family ended up moving to a house with Scientific American magazines up in the attic. From there he taught himself most everything. When he invented the television set, all his competitors were so far off they were using mechanical devises to cast shadows of images with no clear means for how to produce a real image. Farnsworth not only invented the television, he invented the means to transmit the signal and capture it on the other end. Amazing man. A bit of a sad story at the end because he got a patent on it just before WWII and no one was interested until after the war. After the war nobody wanted to buy it because they could see his patent would expire soon. (Back in those days, I believe patents were for only ten years, not like the twenty-year patents of today.) Because of this, even to this day, few people recognize his name. But if you ask me, for what he did, self-taught and essentially taking the idea from concept to completed invention with no one else he stood on the shoulders of--and leaving everyone else far behind--was just mind blowing. It truly was a miracle for people to see the world in motion on a box in their home with the signal sent unseen through the air. I can't give this guy enough credit. Truly one of the greatest inventors of all time.
Being a nation of immigrants, our biggest benefit, allows for mindsets, and traditions around the world to integrate and cooperate in ways other civilizations never could. THAT is what America needs to remember and hold dear. Without that, we would not be where we are as a Country, or Planet. EVERY people on the planet have something to offer mankind, America just makes COLLABORATION easier. So as an American, THANK YOU WORLD for having such diversity.........We also love having a choice of every type of world cuisine being brought from every corner of the globe:)
So very true it's been the reason why the US has been able to be top in so many ways and made us the powerhouse we are today.
German inventions dropped off drastically with the advent of WWII.
That's the effect of having your country divided in two with one half needing to be rebuilt while the other half is ruled by Communist Russia.
More like German inventions dropped off after losing ww2. All the way up til the end they were still going pretty wild, V2 rockets and nuclear research, the modern assault rifle, squad machine guns.
@@Lithane97 yes, and many of the scientists from Germany ended up in the US as we were the least hostile to Germans since they didn't destroy our country. I can understand the animosity of the Europeans though. Its hard to separate the regular germans from the government.
The German video you reacted to was about people of German decent, and this video is about what was invented in the USA. Both are accurate for what they are saying, but are actually different topics.
And don’t ask me which is more accurate or right, it is good to know both histories, but for us today, we shouldn’t forget the past, but must remember we live in the present.
Live a full life and enjoy yourself
4:00 The first recorded instance of a computer bug occurred on September 9, 1945, when a moth was found stuck between the relays of the Harvard Mark II computer
Is that why it's called a bug?
@@alphadog9211 yes and "Debugging" is the literal removal of bugs from the computer... ironically "if it ain't broke don't fix"
Sidenote/Joke:
The spiked tail of a stegosaurus is called a "thagomizer" named by a FAR SIDE comic strip and has been adopted by paleontologist
The transistor was the single most significant achievement of the past two centuries.
When did I first use the internet? Sometime around 1977-1978. There was no monitors and mice were extremely rare. You dealt with analog phone lines, dot matrix printers and storage of data on audio tapes which held up to 4k of memory. Yes, that's less than 4,000 characters. Most locations only had bulletin boards, but there was always undisclosed files, directories, and programs not publicly known which is why hackers developed to try and find those hidden gems. One of my favorite programs I liked to use was a web snake, which I directed to search and glean sources and architectural structures of internet addresses.
Almost all modern technology has its origins in England, the United States, Germany, or France.
Of course other countries - especially in Europe - contributed, but these four were giants.
A lot of it "claimed" only
I found out a few weeks ago, that EMI in London had many technological research businesses as well as a recording company. They had put many of their projects on hold in the 50s when the budget was too low for experiementation. After the Beatles sold millions of records, their projects were once again funded and the within 2 years the CT scan was invented. The Beatles helped fund medical science.
The Iniac was the first totally electronic computer patented by University of Pennsylvania professors Eckhart and Mauchley. They sold the patent to Sperry Rand (inventors of the gyroscope and bombsite). They renamed their computers Univac, The first commercially available computers. IBM and others paid royalties to Sperry for 25 years into the 1970s.
The airplane in the thumbnail is the 14-Bis, invented by a brazilian, Alberto Santos-Dummont which made the first recorded flight in 1906 in front of an audience.
Wright Brothers invented the mechanism to tilt, roll, etc, but most of their reports are fishy, although they do seem to be the first to fly in 1905.
Anyway, depending on your definition of "airplane", americans didn't invent it.
Little known fact. When Alexander Graham Bell picked up the first Telephone, he already had four missed calls from Chuck Norris.
I would put the lightning rod on this list. Though the first demonstrated example was invented by a Czech inventor, Benjamin Franklin (unaware of the other) made a practical version that saved countless buildings in North America and Europe from destruction by fire. Franklin recognized how important the lightning rod would be, and published the design rather than patenting it, so it might be more widely used. One might consider this a British invention, however, as the United States didn't exist yet in 1752.
Hey guys I live in Ft Myers Florida… where the Edison Home and laboratory is. I’ve been on the tour several times. Every year around Christmas we have a huge parade and celebration called “The Edison Festival Of Light” with all the floats in the parade with as many lights as possible.
In 1994 I worked for a publishing company that created the first World Wide Web Yellow Pages, an 800-page volume of websites. Anyway, I edited the foreword to the book, which was written by Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the web. The web is the pretty, visual, and hyperlinked version of the internet that we use now.
My cousin from my grandfather's generation was Dr. Edwin Land. He invented the Polaroid camera, polarized sunglasses, and 300+ other things. He was an interesting cat. He's number 3 on the US patents list after Edison and Thomson for number of patents.
American tax payers pay one billion per year so the entire world has access to GPS...
Missing: The Semiconductor. Production of penicillin. Containerization, which is the foundation of globalization.
Apart from the transistor, we must acknowledge the work of Nicola Tesla, including AC current and the invention of radio.
Bell's parents were deaf. he was attempting to create s device which would enable them to communicate with the hearing. by trying to help his parents he ended up helping us all.
The German Z3 digital computer was completed in 1941. The Germans lacked the foresight to appreciate the potential applications of their invention, so the project was shelved after being used to solve an issue regarding aerodynamics. The computer, being about the size of a truck & stored in the German capital of Berlin, was flattened by Allied Air Raids in 1943 and surpassed by original research while it was awaiting rediscovery. It's now a curiosity.
My grand mother said the electric light was the most amazing thing ever, she said when they put up lamp poles up in her town she would take walks after dark.
childhood inoculations against disease was bigger than the internet.
#1 should have been FREEDOM!!! duh...
If you think freedom is an American invention, you need to study a little history.
Also, America is not the only free country, the American president is not the "leader of the free world", and those that claim such are not being patriotic but just arrogantly ignorant.
@@mikearmstrong8483 U-S-A!!! U-S-A!!! U-S-A!!! U-S-A!!! U-S-A!!!
My best friend's dad worked with Texas Instruments in the '50 's and was instrumental in developing the first IC chip.
In the late 1700's a Hessian soldier (part of the Prussian/German empire) designed an adding machine, a very primitive form of a mechanical computer but he never built it. Charles Babbage from England designed the first successful mechanical computer in the 1820's.
When they say the first "modern" computer, they mean a computer using electronics, even if they were vacuum tubes. The German Government bought an early computer in the late 1930's from IBM. Unfortunately one of the tasks they used it for was to calculate their victims in the concentration camps.
In the 1950's, a pair of Americans invented the transistor, which reduced the size and energy consumption of electronic devices from computers to portable radios and led to the microchip.
Edison's and employees found the filament that worked best, not Edison himself. They tried over 3,000 different combinations of substances and materials.
The grunts never get any credit, especially back then. Sometimes they deserve more credit and sometimes they got all they deserve by getting paid a salary. If the guy who ate to many paint chips as a kid is shoveling coal into the furnace, does he deserve credit for the invention of the light bulb as well? If however Edison was just chilling on the back porch sipping on cold snacks every day and had no part in the creation at all, then that's another story. I think he was more "hands on" though judging by hearing stories about him and his workshop that is preserved at The Henry Ford museum I believe. I imagine he was no saint though, more businessman than than saint but I am no expert on him.
Edison's motto of 1% inspiration, 99% perspiration is applicable!
Thomas Edison and his team won the race to invent the light bulb because they faked it, he knew it was only a matter of time before they would find a filament that worked so he told the world he had done it and faked the tests, he had a bulb that would last a minute or so and brought in reporters turned the light on then rush the reporters out of the room change the buld and showed another group of reporters.
This allowed him the time to get it right as the other people trying to invent a light bulb gave up thanking the problem was already solved.
Alexander Graham Bell was a great genius but he did have his hang-ups.
Other important American inventions:
1793 Cotton gin
1801 Suspension bridge
1801 Fire hydrant
1805 Refrigeration
1833 Sewing machine
1834 Combine harvester
1836 Circuit breaker
1859 Electric stove
1860 Vacuum cleaner
1861 Machine gun
1867 Barbed wire
1876 Music synthesizer
1877 Phonograph
1878 Microphone
1879 Cash register
1882 Electric fan
1883 Photovoltaic solar cell
1883 Thermostat
1885 Photographic film
1887 Gramophone record
1888 Ballpoint pen
1890 Smoke detector
1893 Zipper
1898 Remote control
1901 Radio direction finder
1901 Hearing aid
1902 Air conditioning
1903 Windshield wiper
1912 Autopilot
1923 Bulldozer
1926 Liquid-fueled rocket
1936 Programming languages
1938 Fiberglass
1938 Photocopying
1945 Nuclear weapon
1945 Microwave oven
1945 Radiocarbon dating
1947 Transistor
1955 Intermodal shipping container
1956 Hard disk drive
1958 Integrated circuit
1965 Kevlar
1973 Fiber optics
Good post but also remember America is only 248 year old, were just a baby as countries go. The world's first fully synthetic plastic was Bakelite, invented in New York in 1907, by Leo Baekeland, who coined the term "plastics". In 1861, in New Jersey, gasoline. Duct tape The year was 1943 and Stoudt, who had two sons serving in the U.S. Navy, was working at the Green River Ordnance Plant near Amboy, Illinois. The first handheld mobile phone was demonstrated by Martin Cooper of Motorola in New York City on 3 April 1973. A car phone is a mobile radio telephone specifically designed for and fitted into an automobile. This service originated with the Bell System and was first used in St. Louis, Missouri, United States, on June 17, 1946.
It's hard to pin down the precise point at which the "computer" was invented. Technically, the ancient abacus as well as some clockwork inventions from the Hellenistic world and other devices could be considered "computers" depending on how broadly you define the term.
American Vannevar Bush at MIT apparently built the first analog mechanical computer that was more than just a calculator in 1931.
German Konrad Zuse built the first *digital* electric computer in 1941.
Germany led the world, rivaled only by Britain, in scientific discovery during the 19th and first part of the 20th Centuries and were very advanced in engineering and the Liberal Arts as well. German is still an important scholarly language in many disciplines even today. The French also played a major part. Yet, it was the much less intellectually-prestigious young United States that led in the production of practical, commercially-vulable inventions for everyday use. This was, among other things, due to the commercial drive of American invention and the large American market. People like Bell and Edison were starting, running, and competing with businesses rather than being university scientists or gentleman scholars. Of course, the US also had very capable scientific and scholarly institutions as well, which, though not as prestigious, were as capable as any in Europe.
Say what you want, I just, I need to point out that his beard and mustache and turbin are incredible!🤩
Eli Whitney was contracted to produce 12000 muskets and true full interchangeably of components on a mass production scale didn't happen until after his death
One important one wasn't mentioned. Understandable Nuclear Fission. While it's initial usage was nothing short of horrific, it led to far more important discoveries, such as radiation treatment for cancer, refined safer X-ray machines, and Nuclear power plants.
The first electronic computers were made to Fight the Germans. Alan Turing built his computer to break the Enigma Cypher and America made a Much larger all electronic version after Turing's success.
4:05 the German inventor made an analog computer, this was the first digital computer
One honorable (or perhaps dishonorable) mention would be fast food, invented by the McDonald's brothers (Maurice & Richard McDonald) in 1948. They managed to take what was originally a slow sitdown restaurant and made it so they could pump out burgers within 5 to 10 minutes without fail.
Nikola Tesla would make a great reaction video. He was THE INVENTOR of the 20th Century, a man with true genius.
Wonderful things can happen when people are left mostly free.
Louis Latimer (a black America man) working for Thomas Edison invented the filament for the light bulb. Edison had over one thousand engineers working for him. always putting only his named on the patent for their inventions and innovations.
And these are some of the inventions but if you add technology that was improved in America the number climbs fast. Everything from refrigeration, farming, and construction to warfare, shopping, energy production, and even food dishes.
Innovation and widespread adoption of new technologies do not happen in a vacuum. It takes capital and resources to incubate and market modern technologies, and by 1890 the United States was the largest manufacturing economy in the world. That generated an influx of capital and people who could both generate and utilize new technologies. The final ingredient was the most extensive -- and ultimately the most accessible -- university system in the world. By the end of WWII, as the sole surviving major economy, the equation was capital + human resources + consumer spending = innovation. Every other economy has been racing to duplicate that formula ever since. Many countries have, in fact, duplicated it very successfully.
Not that is maters much but the guy dressed as Charlie Chaplin in the Apple advertisement for the MacCharlie computer was my parent's friend, I used to know him when I was a child and he would babysit me. The Arpanet which started the internet is the biggest thing ever. Next to Nuclear bombs.
The Wright Bros . that invented the bicycles and the airplanes was related to my husbands mom's family .
A ton of inventions in the oil & gas industry as well
Ben Franklin invented bifocal lenses and the lightning rod.
In the last 100 years most inventions come from the USA,
Germany had a lot of technological advances. I think what you're thinking of is the Enigma Machine. Germany's coding device that they used to securely send messages, it was quite a wonder in and of itself. But the Turing Machine created to break the code, made by Alan Turing, was a "Abstract computation model", kind of a giant calculator. It wasn't the first computer in definition, but was the first big jump toward it. But if not for Germany, it's purpose and creation likely wouldn't have been there.
The first digital computer was German, is what they're thinking of.
Maybe "they" are thinking of the Enigma machine, which wasn't a computer in any sense, but the Zuse Z3, operational in 1941, was a Turing-complete digital machine.
WatchMojo left out the air conditioner. It was invented in Buffalo, New York.
The TV by Philo T Farnsworth. No computer monitor or tv. How would you communicate without it.
Actually, Edison didn't create his own lightbulb.
He bought it from two Canadians for 50 thousand dollars, tweaked it a little and mass produced it.
The telephone is another Canadian invention; as it was *invented* in Canada and only *sold* in the states.
Thomas Edison won the race to invent the light bulb because he faked it, he knew it was only a matter of time before he would find a filament that worked, so he told the world he had done it and faked the tests, he had a bulb that would last a minute or so and brought in reporters turned the light on then rush the reporter out of the room change the buld and showed in another reporter.
This allowed him the time to get it right as the other people trying to invent a light bulb gave up, thanking the problem was already solved.
Edison's light bulb actually worked
@@fannybuster it did when he bought it!
@@misterprickly probably for 2 minutes or less
Awww..
"Oppenhiemer" :Am I dead over here???
No mention of the Air Conditioner? :)
AC electricity
An important thing to remember about inventing and genius in general. Someone once asked Sir Issac Newton what it was like to be so brilliant (more or less). His response was that if he saw far, it's because he stood on the shoulders of giants. He meant that everything builds on the work and genius of those who came before, nothing is invented in a vacuum.
Well vacuum tubes were though
@@Andrew-qu7lq I was thinking everything in space is...
Brazilians will insist Alberto Santos Dumont invented the airplane.
There's like half a dozen inventors of the airplane recognized by different countries.
The unique thing the Wright brothers have going for their claim is that their aircraft was the one that led to the aviation industry.
@@alanlight7740they didn't have to claim, they were the ones that succeeded in powered controlled flight....
@@kenneth9874 powered by what????? HHAHAHAHAHAH their paper plane was catapulted, didn't even take off on its own.
@@Rasfa no catapult silly 😜, it was launched on a rail and it was powered by a gasoline engine. Still grasping at straws in an attempt to be relevant I see....
@@kenneth9874 "no catapult silly, it was LAUNCHED with some other type of assistance"
The French, not the Germans, invented the first automobile, which was steam powered, in the late 1700's.
FWIW: The Airplane, and Aviation in general, are my greatest passions...👍
ALSO FWIW: Despite some of the _insanity_ the Internet has brought us, it has also allowed regular 'People Like Us' to communicate all around the world.
I was born in 1961. When I was a kid -- and even when I was a teenager -- the idea of watching ON MY PHONE a video shot by a man and woman in India would have seemed absolute science fiction. Not today.
Before the Internet the closest thing we had was Amateur {HAM} Radio, which is STILL a fascinating technology.
In 1913, Henry Ford invented the moving assembly line which was a huge upgrade on the assembly line. I used to work at a factory and our assembly line vs moving assembly line demonstration produced 7 times as much with the same number of people, the same amount of effort, and had 1/10th as much work in progress. Ford Model T's went from taking 12 hours to produce before the moving assembly line was implemented, down to 1 1/2 hours after it was implemented.
No he did NOT!!! He went to Milton Hershey to figure out how it was done because Milton Hershey was doing it as a major manufacturer to great success well before any car company. Ford actually studied the Hershey plant and went from there to his. What you are repeating is false history. Please don't. Google is wrong.
But India gave us the zero..so India gets massive credit thank you from America
I thought it was the Arabs.
Europe got it through the Arabs, but they got it from India.
They also gave us product support and scam centers. Wait thats a net zero at best…
India was not the first country to invent the concept of zero. The first recorded use of a zero-like symbol dates to sometime around the third century B.C. in ancient Babylon. The Mayans independently invented the concept of zero around 350 CE, however these early counting systems only saw the zero as a placeholder-not a number with its own unique value or properties. A full grasp of zero’s importance would not arrive until the seventh century C.E. in India. There, the mathematician Brahmagupta and others used small dots under numbers to show a zero placeholder, but they also viewed the zero as having a null value, called “sunya.” Brahmagupta was also the first to show that subtracting a number from itself results in zero.
From India, the zero made its way to China and back to the Middle East, where it was taken up by the mathematician Mohammed ibn-Musa al-Khowarizmi around 773 CE. He studied and synthesized Indian arithmetic and showed how zero functioned in the system of formulas he called ‘al-jabr’-today known as algebra. By the 10th century, the zero had entered the Arabic numeral system in a form resembling the oval shape we use today.
The zero continued to migrate for another few centuries before finally reaching Europe sometime around the 1100s.
May 12, 1941 Konrad Zuse invented the Computer in berlin
The USA made computers accessible to the masses
but in the end we can say Humans from Earth done it
in the end 6000 B.C. the first boats were invented
which were later used to bring the first settlers to America
The Integrated Circuit, The Microprocessor, The Transister, GUI Hypertext links, OS computer operating systems, Video Games, The Video Game consol (Magnavox Odyssy,) The Computer Mouse, The keyboard QWERTY/typewriter, Floppy Disks, The Kodak camera, WLAN Alohanet Wifi, Not only the phone, the Cell phone, The LED light replacing Edisin bulbs, Step aside Edison, Tesla had better ideas. AC alternating current that runs through our grids, Induction motor, The Tesla Coil, The Transformer.
They left out the tea bag and electric kettle. Both invented in the US.
...Americans invented a glider...a Brazilian invented the airplane (hundreds saw it in Paris, filmed, certified by local authorities, etc.)
And we are only like 246 years old people in other countries have coffee tables older than that😂
Edison, had stolen most of his inventions from his underlings. Including Nikoli Tesla.
dang, Penicillin didn't make the list ? .....
Alexander Fleming, Scotsman.
It's not an invention, it's a discovery.
Discovered in the UK. The US gets credit for making it practical though.
Nuclear weapons and power plants, are some inventions that could be on this list.
Edison Stole Tesla's invention of the Light Bulb
They left out the integrated circuit. Invented at Fairchild. Top four left to form Intel.
America invented almost every key innovation since 1900.
Actually India had flying machines thousands of years ago. They were called Vamanas.
Santos Dumont plane in the thumbnail? That's cruel.
Just think, MTV and music videos were not a thing until 1981.
Music videos were already a thing years before that. There just wasn't a network dedicated to playing them. MTV played mostly British bands in its early years because they had produced music videos more than 10 years by then and had a greater inventory.
Fusion bomb, lasers, the transistor, integrated circuits, rubber vulcanization, and aluminum refining
Americans invented fusion? hell, and how did the sun work until then?
@@axelpalfy7597 US scientists created the process to force nuclear fusion. They did the same with Nuclear Fission. The original use for both was bombs - the Hydrogen Bomb (Fission/Fusion), and the Uranium/Plutonium bombs (Fission).
@@davidolson3776 ou don't have to explain to me what fusion is and what is friction, the video is about American inventions, and fusion has been here since the beginning of the world, the Americans didn't invent it :-))and the fusion reactor was invented by Russian scientists, speaking of which
@@axelpalfy7597 Sure pal. I wouldn't attempt to explain what fusion is; or friction.
@@davidolson3776 Fission was actually discovered in Germany, but the US made it practical. Fusion was first demonstrated in a laboratory in the UK, but still isn't practical.
My alma mater (UCLA) gets proper credit for inventing #1 on the list. UCLA programmed a computer in 1969, to dial-up a computer at Stanford. The connection failed because Stanford had a faulty line in the code three lines into the program. It is safe to say UCLA invented the internet and Stanford was the first the screw it up.
PAC 12 rivalry
@@sgabig Of Course. UCLA all the way.
Germans were using and inventing Mechanical computers before wwII, US invented the Electronic Computers I believe is the distinction.
Roughly 60% of all modern medicine is researched in the US. That is not so much of an invention as just an ongoing thing.
Thankyou ,come again
Utah alone has had some inventions that have had an impact on the world. The Colt revolver and Henry repeating rifles. The electric traffic light. The first computer game. The Television. Headphones. Car stereo and stereophonic recording. Word processing. The frisbee. First permanent artificial heart. The electric guitar. Computer animation software. And others. Though it wasn't invented in Utah, the Zamboni was invented by someone from Utah.
John Peake Knight, a British railway manager, is credited with inventing the first traffic light in 1868. He suggested adapting a railroad method for controlling traffic, which led to the installation of the world's first traffic signal in London.
@@machineman268 I didn't say Traffic Signal, nor did I say Gas Traffic Light, I said electric traffic light, the first one was set up in downtown Salt Lake City. It was nicknamed Lester's Pigeon Box because of its resemblance to a birdhouse.
I'd like to see support for the assertion that Samuel Colt of Hartford CT invented his revolver in Utah.
@@johnbrobston1334 The Winchester and Colt companies bought many of John Moses Browning's, yet when they manufactured John's designs they chose not to put his name on them or give John any credit. From the 1920s to the 1980s the United States military used almost nothing but John Browning designed guns. A few of John's guns are still used by the military over a hundred years after their invention.
@@bartonbagnes4605 Colt was selling revolvers before John Moses Browning was born. Try again.
Stored program as part of Manhattan Project