The first light bulb, although not incandescent, was invented even before Edison was born. And yeah, Edison only perfected the incandescent light bulb.
The light bulb was invented by a British man and as Stated Edison only improved on the light bulb. The first working light bulb was invented by a man named Swan and i believe he was British.
Without those improvements the incandescent light bulbs that Joseph Swan invented were hardly practical. They had a low life time and required thick copper wires to provide them with power. So the improvements were the reason that incandescent light bulbs became a practical source of indoor and outdoor lighting.
Meanwhile the german Johann Phillip Reis was even earlier with the telephone (1861). Bell was just the first to have it patented. The first sentence through it was: "Das Pferd frisst keinen Gurkensalat." Which means "The horse doesn't eat cucumber salat"
@@TheR04Ch Same goes for the computer mouse. A Swede invented it but an american patented it first. When an appeal was sent in, the american court (not surprisingly) sided with the american despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary.
Somehow true, but once exiled/expatriated, enjoying if only the fcilities offered by your host country, doesn't it to some extent cut you off from your origins? I'm just wondering, not judging.
150 anni fa l'italiano Antonio Meucci costruì il telettrofono, precursore del telefono che conosciamo oggi. Il 28 dicembre del 1871 Antonio Meucci depositò il brevetto del primo telefono. Per la precisione si trattava del caveat n. 3335, una domanda di brevetto con scadenza annuale. Poi però la sua invenzione venne perfezionata dallo scienziato americano Alexander Graham Bell nel 1876. Meucci in seguito denunciò Alexander Graham Bell per avergli rubato l'idea, ma solo nel 2002 il Congresso degli Stati Uniti ha riconosciuto il contributo di Meucci nell'invenzione del telefono. 150 years ago the Italian Antonio Meucci built the telephone, the precursor of the telephone we know today. On 28 December 1871 Antonio Meucci filed the patent for the first telephone. To be precise, it was caveat no. 3335, a one-year patent application. But then his invention was perfected by the American scientist Alexander Graham Bell in 1876. Meucci later denounced Alexander Graham Bell for having stolen his idea, but only in 2002 did the United States Congress recognize Meucci's contribution to the invention of telephone.
If I remember correctly, a newspaper published an obituary ahead of time of Alfred Nobel and labeled him as the "merchant of death". Shocked that this was his legacy he started the nobel peace price which still uses the money from the original patent as its price money.
The inventor of the telephone is actually Philipp Reis from Germany. He had already presented a model in 1861 and gave the device the name “telephone”. From 1865 onwards, some of his devices came to Russia, Great Britain, Ireland and the USA, where they further investigated and tried to develop Reis' telephone. In the USA they only examined his model in 1868 and tried to improve it.
Several of the inventions can be highly disputable. Often the inventor credited with it made the first working model for a mass market - or just had the better PR. I had the honor to meet Konrad Zuse when he was visiting our computer class way back in the 1980's and talking about the Z3 computer. ^^
Australian Howard Florey led the team that developed the first antibiotic, and Australia invented refrigeration, Michael Faray was English not from the USA, and Google Maps was invented in Sydney.
The black box recorder was invented In 1953, while working at the Aeronautical Research Laboratories (ARL) of the Defence Science and Technology Organisation in Melbourne, Australian research scientist David Warren conceived a device that would record not only the instrument readings, but also the voices in the cockpit.
Sorry but he was not the first on that, he only developed the tochnology further "The first modern flight data recorder, called "Mata Hari", was created in 1942 by Finnish aviation engineer Veijo Hietala. This black high-tech mechanical box was able to record all important details during test flights of fighter aircraft that the Finnish army repaired or built in its main aviation factory in Tampere, Finland" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_recorder
@@grantodaniel7053Yes, and they are located apart from each other to ensure that at least one of them survive. I would go as far to say that Australians should be credited for the invention of CVR (Cockpit Voice Recorder) since Hietala's invention only recorded mechanical side of the airplane
It seems to me that a lot of American Inventors took their lead from a certain Patent Addict called Edison. As far as i was taught the TV was invented by a scotsman called John Logie Baird.
..the first functional tv and technial epuiqment are in invented in germany by 4 germans BRAUN ( braunsche röhre), HERTZ, ARDENNE AND NIPKOW. you can the check the history 👍
Die erste brauchbare Umsetzung erfand 1883 Paul Nipkow. Sein elektrisches Teleskop zerlegt mit Hilfe einer rotierenden, mit spiralförmig angeordneten Löchern versehenen Scheibe Bilder in Hell-Dunkel-Signale beziehungsweise setzt sie wieder zusammen. Er meldete diese nach ihm benannte Nipkow-Scheibe am 6. Januar 1884 zum Patent an. Nach seinen Ideen gelangen Anfang des 20. Jahrhunderts die ersten Fernsehbildübertragungen. Nipkow wird deshalb als der Erfinder der ersten praktischen Realisierung des Fernsehens bezeichnet.[
The inventor of the telephone is actually Philipp Reis from Germany. He had already presented a model in 1861 and the name “telephone” also comes from him.
@@arnomrnym6329 Marconi was the name. But Marconi's device sometimes had a slightly different mode of operation than Philipp Reis's. Moreover, it is not until 10 years after Reis's first screening that anything is documented in writing by Marconi. In principle, Bell's "invention" is the stolen patent of Elisha Gray, who in principle wanted to patent a new edit of Reis's plans after his death. 🤷🏼♀️
the principle of traffic lights on the road was first put into operation in England. it had only two colors, red and green. the disadvantage was the quick change of stop and go, a few years later the American policeman added a yellow light so that the carriages and cars would have enough time to change color. since you wear contact lenses... were patented in 1961 in the Czech Republic (Czechoslovak Republic). in 1965, an American company bought a license patent for their production for the American market. (google translate )
The Konrad Zuse computer was powered by relays and that's why the term bug is used for errors because it happened that an insect got lost between the contacts which led to calculation errors. I think very few people even know where this term comes from, which is why software errors are still called BUG today. The internet was not invented by the USA, but as a military network it invented the IP network, which was still a long way from the internet.
The basic for the internet is the Darpa Net using the TCP/IP the first time. WWW is only a service on this TCP/IP network using DNS Servers to identify Domains and dolmetch them into IP adresses.
Traffic lights: The initial ones weren't probably used mainly for cars but for horse drawn vehicles. Internet: The first implementation of a packet based network (basically IP protocol) was done by the DOD in the US. They wanted to create a network for military equipment to safely communicate with each other. This of course didn't include other nowaday common protocols such as http. Then the UK inventory created the world wide web, which is the system that uses the internet to access web resources, such as a server with a website
TV was invented by another Brit, another Scot, Logie Baird. Motion photography was invented in the UK. Google first ever film of a racing horse galloping. It was to settle a bet on whether all hooves leave the ground at the same time. Leeds, Yorkshire.
Alexander Graham Bell (telephone) was Scottish, but demonstrated it when he moved to the USA, 1st broadcast of TV was by John Logie Baird also Scottish, though we use a different system now
The Top Gear crew did a good joke about that one. Conclusion was that whenever something comes out of Scotland, the UK says it's a UK invention (and the world follows suit for some reason), whenever something bad comes out of Scotland, the UK is all to glad to say the Scotts did it.
the first functional and documented telephone was in 1861 in germany by philipp reis. he gives for this apparature the bame telephone. you can on google check this😊
The inventor of the telephone is actually Philipp Reis from Germany. He had already presented a model in 1861 and gave the device the name “telephone”. From 1865 onwards, some devices came to Russia, Great Britain, Ireland and the USA, where they further investigated and tried to develop Reis' telephone. In the USA they only examined the model in 1868 and tried to improve it.
@@IWrocker sad to say because the telephone WAS invented by Alexander Graham Bell BUT he was Scottish NOT American he later set up an American telecommunications company BUT that is NOT where it was invented! Am going to stop watching this one now
Alfred Nobel was so horrified with how dynamite was being used so in his will he left instructions to give a prize and money annually to the person who had made the most important improvement or discovery to improve humanity over a wide range of fields. That's basically how the Nobel Prize's came about.
Richard William Pearse was a New Zealand farmer and inventor who performed pioneering aviation experiments. Witnesses interviewed many years afterward describe observing Pearse flying and landing a powered heavier-than-air machine on 31 March 1903, nine months before the Wright brothers flew.
John Logie Baird from Scotland patented the first television in 1922 and had his first ready for production TV in 1925. Australia has an award night each year for TV personalities . Its called " The Logie Awards" or as Aussie's say " The Logies".
For the camera, the first movie camera came from Kodiak and Thomas Edison (kinetograph) but real inventor is Louis Le Prince who disigned first what we called camera today. Unfortunatelly the guy disapeared in a train and nobody know, even today, what's happened
Tim Berners-Lee, a British scientist, invented the World Wide Web (WWW) in 1989, while working at CERN. The web was originally conceived and developed to meet the demand for automated information-sharing between scientists in universities and institutes around the world. In short the first world wide internet was invented by a british scientist in CERN (France-Switzerland border).
6:13 Paul Julius Gottlieb Nipkow was a German engineer and inventor. He invented the Nipkow disk, which laid the foundation for the development of mechanical television. For this disc, he applied for an imperial patent from the Imperial Patent Office in Berlin for an electric telescope for the “electrical reproduction of luminous objects” in the category of electrical apparatus. It was granted to him on January 15, 1885, retroactive to January 6, 1884. Wikipedia
Zuse's computer was the first programmable computer. There were loads of calculating machines in decades and even centuries earlier. But they usually had only very simple arithmatic functions. The Z3 was the first truly programmable computer. Mind you, the abilities were extremely limited in the beginning.
Yes. And in 1998 Raul Rojas found out, that the Z3 was even Turing-complete with the help of two little hacks. Only a leeetle bit slow... And fun fact: Zuse invented the Computer because he was too lazy to do mental arithmetric. Imagine that - true genius.
Thomas Johnson developed the first patch in 1846 that was coated with a sticky substance and could be easily applied to the skin. The patch's worldwide breakthrough came in the 1920s, when Johnson & Johnson launched the first waterproof patch. I think 1846 was a few decades before 1921. So the patch was invented in England.
One important invention missed out was the telegraph. The work of many scientists from places such as Britain, Spain, Italy, The US, Germany & Denmark amongst others incrementally lead to the first working telegraph being invented in Britain by Francis Ronalds in 1816. This was improved upon by Baron Schilling of Russia, Gaus & Webber of Germany & finally by Cooke & Wheatstone of Britain in 1837. Samuel Morse patented a different telegraph in 1837, which is the one adopted by most of the world. This exemplifies many inventions how many inventions came about before the 20th century, which is why at least four countries can claim to be the place that the electric lightbulb was invented, and all be right.
Think of it like this: the internet is the infrastructure on which the World Wide Web is running. WWW is a layer on top of the low level communication protocols that allow information to be exchanged, so without that the World Wide Web couldn't work.
Richard Pearse of New Zealand flew and landed his powered heavier-than-air machine on 31 March 1903, nine months before the Wright Brothers. The TV was invented by a Scotsman John Logie Baird. Edison didn't invent light bulbs, he saw them and improved them for his electrical system. As for the battery maybe the modern battery was invented by Italy but they have found "batteries" that were made BCE.
There are claims that Gustave Whitehead flew heavier than air airplanes in 1901 and 1902, so the would precede Pearse's attempts. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustave_Whitehead
They give the invention to the Wrights because they had Controlled flight, see Wing Warping, . Earlier machines have bugger all control and were akin to powered hang gliders.
The late 80's to early 90's was wild in terms of viruses. It exposed what real hackers still use today as their main attack vector to get into major networks. If you infect a floppy (or now USB) disk with a virus and it has even the idea of having something remotely interesting on it, people will use these disks and spread the virus. Back when I was in highschool, this was done by copying games and programs on floppy disks. These in turn infected PCs and copies of the same floppy disks. Intrusion into major networks today is still 95% manipulating people rather than writing clever code.
5:10 stationary power, same as steam. Drove a big wheel on which a big ol' belt was transmitting the power. Nikolas August Otto refined the design and the fuel source from first black powder to Town Gas and eventually gasoline, at this point we were introduced to an engineer by the name Rudolf Diesel.
2:47 Why did the Name of Alessandro Volta was not there ? It was presented the first time to a science exposition in Paris which Napoleon Bonaparte assisted ( he was a member of the academy since 1797 ). 5:12 Lenoir created a four-stroke engine based on the principle of the" Beau de Rochas" cycle: his gas-powered automobile travels 9 kilometers from Paris to Joinville-le-Pont in three hours (3 km/h). Lenoir manufactured it in 1860 in 400 examples10 which were used, the following year, to operate the first motorboat on the Seine. This engine only produced the equivalent power of 2 horses . 5:53 The way to mass produce them : yes. BUT he didn't invented them. 7:24 Wrong it was a Kynetoscope, a machine that allows a single person to pay to see a film in a box in which they watch. The Lumières brothers created what we know as motion picture cinema in 1895. 7:34 It has been proved by historians, engineers and justice court that in fact Marconi stole multiple Westinghouse-Tesla and didn't credited them, inventor no, thief and scammer yes. 8:46 It required a catapult so not really the first ones. Clément Ader and alberto Santos-Dumont are actualy the most prominent names in term of SELF propelled airplanes.
Jacob Perkins did not invent the Refrigerator. In 1834 he built a cooling device that cooled by pumping ether into cooling coil systems. This was used on ships. The disadvantage of ether was that it tended to explode when mixed with air. -- Little History In 1748, William Cullen demonstrated the first artificial refrigeration at the University of Glasgow. An important further development was the use of ammonia by Ferdinand Carré in 1859. In 1876, the German engineer and entrepreneur Carl von Linde developed the Linde process, which was fundamental to science and technology. His invention made it possible to improve the reliability of the compressor and the entire refrigeration machine to such an extent that they became suitable for industrial use. Now it was possible to produce water ice industrially all year round; it was no longer necessary to rely on natural ice. Its initial development was also still powered by ammonia. This substance is toxic, corrosive and caused not only leaks but also a foul odor, so refrigerators were not suitable for domestic use until the 1920s, when substitute chemicals were developed. Electric refrigerators Carl von Linde had already received patents for refrigeration machines in 1874 and 1876. Linde's machines were used industrially in breweries. Refrigerator with refrigerating machine by Marcel Audiffren (1909) Marcel Audiffren's refrigeration machine was patented in France in 1894; it used sulphur dioxide as a refrigerant. Refrigerators based on this were manufactured by General Electric in the USA from 1911. The 'Bee Hive' Refrigerator from B.T.H., England, with a cooling unit on top. (Thinktank Collection, Birmingham Science Museum) 2nd Bosch refrigerator from 1935 Painting of refrigerator housings in Magdeburg (1958) Refrigerator production at VEB Kühlautomat Berlin 1988 In 1916, the "Guardian Frigerator Company" was founded in the USA for the construction of electrically operated refrigerators. This company was bought by General Motors two years later (1918) and renamed "Frigidaire". Refrigerators for private households were launched from the 1920s onwards, but due to their high price, they were not widely used at first. From around 1925, Frigidaire also had its refrigerators and cooling systems manufactured and sold in Austria (by the tractor manufacturer Warchalowski in Vienna). These appliances were also sold in Austria by others. In 1929, the one millionth Frigidaire refrigerator was completed in the USA. The first German (and therefore another European) household refrigerator was developed in 1929 by the Zschopauer Motorenwerke J.S. Rasmussen, founded by Jørgen Skafte Rasmussen. Their brand DKW-Kühlung became Deutsche Kühl- und Kraftmaschinen GmbH in Scharfenstein in 1931. From 1930, Frigidaire also had evaporators and compressors manufactured in Berlin. In 1933, Bosch presented its first electric refrigerator, which was intended to make electric refrigeration affordable in private households. From 1938, Frigidaire had complete refrigerators manufactured by Opel in Rüsselsheim (Germany). With the spread of electricity and the refrigerator, its predecessor, the electricity-free icebox, lost its appeal. The word Eisschrank (icebox in Austria) is still used colloquially for the refrigerator in use today. The popular refrigerator announced by propaganda in the Third Reich in 1938, which was also intended to be affordable for the general public, never went into series production due to the war. From 1950, with the economic miracle, refrigerators with a combination of fridge and freezer compartments became widespread in private households in West Germany. Bosch produced its 50,000th refrigerator in 1951. Bauknecht produced its first refrigerator in 1951. Liebherr began developing refrigerators in 1954 and started series production in 1955. In the course of the 1960s, freezers and cabinets also became common.
5:02 Etienne Lenoir was a Belgian living in France when he invented the internal combustion engine... but it was Nikolaus August Otto that developed the 4 stroke engine that improved the efficiency of the internal combustion engine by squeezing the mixture before igniting it.
A lot of famous inventions are actually just improvements of things that already existed. The telephone was first invented by Philipp Reis from Germany. He even came up with its name.
A lot of these were invented by someone but were not made into something actually useable until one or more people improved them e.g. refrigerators, televisions, radar, and computers to name just a few
Well, if something is begun but is still unusable, the person who makes it usable is the real champion. What's the point in lauding something that doesn't work?
@@xymonau2468 Wrong, they just improved it. An inventor is the person who has an idea and then was the first to make it work. 🙄. They all worked just not as well as later versions.
Michael Faraday, for example, was British, not from the US. And as for the bifocal lenses - how can anyone say they are a major invention? Alfred Nobel created the Nobel Peace prize because h was so distraught at the un-peaceful uses of dynamite.
A gentle comment on the "facts" in this video. To take something with a "grain of salt" or "pinch of salt" is an English idiom that suggests to view something, specifically claims that may be misleading or unverified, with skepticism or to not interpret something literally. In the old-fashioned English units of weight, a grain weighs approximately 65 mg, which is about how much table salt a person might pick up between the fingers as a pinch.
Wind towers/wind catchers would be used in ancient times (mostly around the Mediterranean/the Middle-East). They were built like chimneys on top of houses and were designed to funnel wind into homes. That way, the flowing air would create a breeze throughout the entire home, blowing the warm stagnant air outside, keeping the home cool.
The laser also had more authors, it was worked on in Germany already during World War II, and they had results in Russia at the same time as the American team. For me, it is more interesting that in Czechoslovakia they had a laser already in 1962. From the Eastern Bloc at that time, they were second only to Russia.
While the Icebox was common, none of them were refrigerated. Refrigeration profoundly changed the world, but few know it is an Australian invention dating back to the 1850's. In our series 'Things That Made Australia', Tim Lee meets a group of historians keen to memorialise its Geelong inventor, James Harrison.
@@Hartmut-oo5tsRefrigeration was invented by James Harrison. I didn't say anything about fridges. In 1854, Harrison created a commercial ice-making machine in Geelong, which he then expanded to create a vapour-compression refrigeration system, which he was awarded a patent for in 1855. Carl Von Linde, while an assistant professor of machine design at the newly established Technische Hochschule in Munich from 1868, he developed a methyl ether refrigerator (1874) and an ammonia refrigerator (1876). Though other refrigeration units had been developed earlier, Linde’s were the first to be designed with the aim of precise calculations of efficiency. So I don't know, I would say we're both right. Refrigeration/fridge somewhere between 1850 & 1877 both were created. Sorry for the story, I'm a history buff. Thou I could be bothered, I did copy Carl's text out of the encyclopedia. The rest I knew, from Aussie teachings. I actually done a school project/assignment on refrigeration techniques. I only got a B+, the second highest score in the class. Damn working model volcano, should not have won.
I distinctly remember my early high school science class when our teacher taught us about Edward Jenner and his observation that milkmaids who developed mild cowpox had a seeming immunity to smallpox. We learnt that day that the word “vaccine” comes from the Latin “vacca” meaning “a cow”. It was a catalyst for me to take French as a language that was being offered at my high school for the first time. Their word for cow is “vache”. For the next 50 years I recognised so many root words and could figure out a lot of nouns and verbs even in Spanish and Portuguese. You never know where it will take you so I’m so glad I made that subject choice when I was 12. Now I know it would have been easier to pick up if I’d started language lessons years earlier in kindergarten. Ian, this has been a very entertaining segment so thanks for posting it. Robyn in Sydney. 🤗 PS Please say “Bendiciones” from me 😊to your lovely wife, her dad and your little girl. My best friend is Cuban (mi hermanito de una otra madre) so I may have a Spanish vocabulary similar to yours by now.
The internet itself was indeed invented in the US, but that version was only used for military and governement purposes, the world wide web was basically a "user interface" that allowed the internet to be more easily and widely accessible, internet and world wide web are not the same thing even thoug a lot of people confuse the two... On top of that I'd like to add that the very first web browser with a graphical interface, i.e somewhat like the ones we all use today, was actually invented in Finland!
It is believed that the Nobel Prize was an attempt by Alfred Nobel to leave a better legacy in the world than having improved military weaponry through his ingenuity. 🙏
This video about inventions is worth shit. Interestingly, there is no man (Pole) named Ignacy Łukasiewicz who invented the kerosene lamp and kerosene. He is also considered the father of the modern oil industry (fuel refining) because he built the world's first refinery in Poland. In 1856, on Łukasiewicz's initiative, the world's first oil refinery was established in Ulaszowice near Jasło. The second man who played an important role was the Serbian Nikola Tesla, who is also not included in the list.
Traffic relating Finnish inventions are pedestrian reflector and winter tires. Yes, it's dark and snowy here during winters. Winter tires were invented in 1934 by Suomen Gummitehdas Osakeyhtiö, which was Nokian Tires predecessor. Their tires got world wide fame in the 60s, when several Monte Carlo Rally winners used them. Nokia of course became later famous for their mobile phones and for the first GSM network. First graphic based web browser was also invented in Finland by a group of students. High percentage of the critical computer systems-in internet included-run on some version of Linux, which was created by a Finn, Linus Torvalds, when he was still a student. E.g. the 500 most powerful supercomputers use Linux. The "Thomas Edison of Finland, Eric Tigerstedt, was a pioneer of sound-on-film technology and made significant improvements to the amplification capacity of the vacuum valve. He presented his sound on film system in 1914, but his invention was never commercialized. He also developed directional loudspeakers, predicted such future inventions as television and invented the mobile phone, for which he in 1917 successfully filed a patent.
The problem with the Bicycle is the Need for a relatively decent road. Horse and Walking cover pretty much any terrain. To Be able to Utilize a bicycle you need a grid of Paths you can ride on. Therein for late blooming...
There's a HUGE mistake in there, they correctly identify Michael Faraday as the inventor of the electric motor but he was English NOT American and it was invented in the UK - sheesh
They discovered batteries dating back about 2000 years and is named the Baghdad Battery. The reflective telescope might be invented in the UK, the microscope and telescope was invented in the Netherlands.
It's good you mentioned contact lenses. They are not mentioned in the video but they were actually invented in Czechoslovakia by Otto Wichterle...well he didn't actually invent them but until then they had been hard and very uncomfortable to wear.
Yeah, Wichterle invented the soft lenses. Another invention from Czechoslovakia is ship propeller (lodní šroub in Czech) invented by Josef Ressel in 1827
Before fridges existed, many households kept food cool inside a "Coolgardie Safe", which was invented in the late 1890s. The safes used water to trickle down through the hessian covering, as an evaporative cooling device. Arthur Patrick McCormick (contractor in Coolgardie, and later Mayor of Narrogin in Western Australia) is credited as the inventor of the Coolgardie Safe. Some people in outback Australia still keep water cold in hession bags hung on the front of their cars, which operates on the same principle.
Czechia has some you might be interested in - soft contact lenses, color photography, blood typing, semtex (the explosive) and of course the ship propeller, which is sort of weird, since there is no sea.
The inventor of the internal combustion engine is actually the Austrian Christian Reithmann and he operated the first engine in 1852. His engine already had 4 strokes back then
The first camera was invented by a Pole, "Aeroscope) - the world's first hand-held automatic film camera with image stabilization, constructed in 1908 by a Polish inventor and designer, Kazimierz Prószyński." The first car is considered to be a steam vehicle built in 1769 in France. The first patented car was built by Carl Benz in 1885 (patent January 1886), and the first car to be introduced to the commercial market was Panhard-Levassor. Carl Benz is generally considered to be the inventor of the car, as he created the first vehicle in 1885. However, few people remember that seventy years earlier than Carl Benz, a Silesian - Józef Bożek, also constructed a vehicle resembling later versions of the car.
The peace price came around after someone reported him dead and they listed how many his invetions had killed in war and basicly said - yeah he is dead not a great loss for humanity. So he put money up for the peace price (along with his prices for Litterature, Medicin, Chemistry and Physics) so he paid for the prices to be a thing for HELPING humanity
Finland: The first internet browser with a graphical user interface (in other words, not just plain text). Fiskars scissors Safety reflector Sauna Angry Birds Nokia Ice Skates Linux OS SMS (texting)
There are many inaccuracies in this video. Kathy Loves Physics & History a great UA-cam channel, is great source of the history of some of these inventions.
Just because yanks are funny cattle I will clarify that the Benz "horseless carriage" was REALLY gas powered NOT gas(oline) powered. The use of the term gas for what is actually petrol is one that really gets up my nose.
For anyone interested. Brain was not the first personal computer virus nor did it require Microsoft Windows. It was however, the first IBM PC/Compatible virus. It replicated via floppy disk boot sector . Elk Cloner was infecting Apple II PCs in 1982, around 4 years earlier than Brain. Also,while elk cloner and Brain replicated by writing itself to the boot sector of floppy disks, Elk cloner was also distributed as a trojan horse, since the virus code was built into a game called Elk Hunter, which was distributed and downloaded via BBS. Play the game - get infected.....
Common myth. Gunpowder was not invented in China. It was neither invented nor from China. A simular compound came from China, but it was not until it reach europe when it was refined to the degree it burn so fast it could be used in fire arms. Chinese did use it in rockets, but not in fire arms. (Fire arms did eventually track back to china). There is a simular story wirh most technology, they are typically never invented. Invention basically don't exist. A lot of the countries at least in the early part is just wrong. The people republic of china didnt exist in year 800 Fariday was certanly not from the us.. and here also. Electric motor was developed over a very long period of time. Internal combistion motor was also developed over a period of time the first once was replacment for steam engines. They needed no heatup or driver. So they was much cheaper to operate for small instalations. What they was used for was local power. First belt, later electricity. Internet was very much not imvented. It was developed. And what is really considered intenet is the formation lf the tcp/ip protocoll that happen a bit later. Arpa net was the genral hardware. What was developed in swizerland was HTTP that is one of the most important component. What makes that a bit iffy is that they guy who created it was a british scientist that just happen to have hi office in swizerland.
Yes - as Ian said, take it all, with a grain of salt - Google shows the UK, the US and Australia as all being first or responsible for inventing the refrigerator or refrigeration with different dates.
Throwing in some Canadian inventions here. Insulin, Pacemakers, Electric wheelchair and Wheelchair buses, Basketball , the first gas masks our current model of Standard Time, just to name a few!
TV had many inventors. Also not forget the cameras. From early Nipkow-disk to Ikonoskopes to CCDs to CMOS. What a ride! First HDTV btw was in Germany for the 1936 summer olympics. That picture was much better than VHS half a century later!
Whos video was this ....they done no research at all .....half was wrong.... USA claiming atuff they didnt invent ......must of been an American youtuber who learned his facts at high school ,🤦🤷🏻
"Thought these came out of America" tell me you are american without telling me you are american...........holy f.... that is the most american thing i have heard for a long time,, and i watch alot of these kind of vids..... i know you do have a open mind.. but you couldnt expose the american way of illusions of grandeur.. in a better sentence LOL
On the automobile: Benz invented the gas-powered car. Mwah....... maybe. But in 1834, Dutchman Sibrandus Stratingh drove through the streets of Groningen in a steam-powered vehicle that was basically a Coupé (carriage) with a small steam engine at the front behind which the driver sat. Just like later, early gas-powered cars. Before him Frenchman Nicolas Cugnot designed a steam-powered vehicle, that was built by a certain M. Brezin, in 1769. Etienne Lenoir built a petroleum powered enige (to generate electricity for Parisian electrical streetlights) and put it in his coach in the early 1860's. Alphonse Beau de Roche invented a motor that compressed and exploded the gas in the same cylinder (but neglected to patent it). German Nicolaus Otto did, and designed the first four-stroke engine in 1862. A design "stolen" by Benz ans Daimler. In 1801 British engineer Trevithick built a steam powered 3 wheeled vehicle with rear drive. In 1830, amongst others Stratingh, was experimenting with electrical vehicles. So.... saying Benz invented the automobile is a bit of an oversimplification, at least! He built the first commercially viable automobile.
9:45 The invention of the electric traffic light comes from America, but it was invented much earlier! A red-green idea from London But people didn't think about traffic lights until the 20th century. The first traffic lights were installed in London in 1869, 155 years ago. They were powered by gas lamps.
2:56 The Baghdad Battery, also known as the Battery of the Parthians or the Battery of Khu-jut Rabuah, is a clay pot found in 1936 during excavations of a Parthian settlement at the site of the Khujut Rabuah hill near Baghdad. Since the vessel contains a copper cylinder and an iron rod, Wilhelm König, the director of the Iraqi National Museum, speculated that it - connected in a series of similar objects - could have served as a battery 2000 years ago, even though electricity was still unknown at that time according to current knowledge .
1:12 Fun fact: John Harington is Kit Harington's (Jon Snow from GoT) distant ancestor-his great, great, great-plus grandfather. 9:38 back then they could have been used for trams, trains and other transportation methods
The light bulb was not invented by Edison. Joseph swan is credited with that. Edison just improved it
And radio was invented by Tesla, not Marconi.
@@laggyluke5700 That's disputed between Tesla and Marconi. The first radio broadcast was by Marconi though
The first light bulb, although not incandescent, was invented even before Edison was born.
And yeah, Edison only perfected the incandescent light bulb.
The light bulb was invented by a British man and as Stated Edison only improved on the light bulb. The first working light bulb was invented by a man named Swan and i believe he was British.
Without those improvements the incandescent light bulbs that Joseph Swan invented were hardly practical. They had a low life time and required thick copper wires to provide them with power. So the improvements were the reason that incandescent light bulbs became a practical source of indoor and outdoor lighting.
I think the person who compiled this list for the video should of done some better research 😅 lot of errors 😅
Absolutely. It was quite stupid.
Alexander Graham Bell ws born in SCOTLAND and went to live in Canada.
Saying the phone is American is bollocks.
Meanwhile the german Johann Phillip Reis was even earlier with the telephone (1861). Bell was just the first to have it patented.
The first sentence through it was: "Das Pferd frisst keinen Gurkensalat." Which means "The horse doesn't eat cucumber salat"
@@TheR04Ch Same goes for the computer mouse. A Swede invented it but an american patented it first. When an appeal was sent in, the american court (not surprisingly) sided with the american despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary.
Somehow true, but once exiled/expatriated, enjoying if only the fcilities offered by your host country, doesn't it to some extent cut you off from your origins?
I'm just wondering, not judging.
Was looking for this
150 anni fa l'italiano Antonio Meucci costruì il telettrofono, precursore del telefono che conosciamo oggi. Il 28 dicembre del 1871 Antonio Meucci depositò il brevetto del primo telefono. Per la precisione si trattava del caveat n. 3335, una domanda di brevetto con scadenza annuale.
Poi però la sua invenzione venne perfezionata dallo scienziato americano Alexander Graham Bell nel 1876. Meucci in seguito denunciò Alexander Graham Bell per avergli rubato l'idea, ma solo nel 2002 il Congresso degli Stati Uniti ha riconosciuto il contributo di Meucci nell'invenzione del telefono.
150 years ago the Italian Antonio Meucci built the telephone, the precursor of the telephone we know today. On 28 December 1871 Antonio Meucci filed the patent for the first telephone. To be precise, it was caveat no. 3335, a one-year patent application.
But then his invention was perfected by the American scientist Alexander Graham Bell in 1876. Meucci later denounced Alexander Graham Bell for having stolen his idea, but only in 2002 did the United States Congress recognize Meucci's contribution to the invention of telephone.
If I remember correctly, a newspaper published an obituary ahead of time of Alfred Nobel and labeled him as the "merchant of death". Shocked that this was his legacy he started the nobel peace price which still uses the money from the original patent as its price money.
Bell (telephone) was born in Scotland and thus why this invention is generally credited as UK. Also Faraday English not American.
The inventor of the telephone is actually Philipp Reis from Germany. He had already presented a model in 1861 and gave the device the name “telephone”.
From 1865 onwards, some of his devices came to Russia, Great Britain, Ireland and the USA, where they further investigated and tried to develop Reis' telephone.
In the USA they only examined his model in 1868 and tried to improve it.
@inotoni6148 he designed the model but didn't get it to work. So therefore he didn't invent it did he.
Several of the inventions can be highly disputable. Often the inventor credited with it made the first working model for a mass market - or just had the better PR.
I had the honor to meet Konrad Zuse when he was visiting our computer class way back in the 1980's and talking about the Z3 computer. ^^
Australian Howard Florey led the team that developed the first antibiotic, and Australia invented refrigeration, Michael Faray was English not from the USA, and Google Maps was invented in Sydney.
Nah, the first to actually make use of the physics of evaporative cooling and radiative cooling were the Persians way earlier. Google ”yakhchāl” 😉🤓
Google maps was invented in Sydney, but by two Danish brothers.
The black box recorder was invented In 1953, while working at the Aeronautical Research Laboratories (ARL) of the Defence Science and Technology Organisation in Melbourne, Australian research scientist David Warren conceived a device that would record not only the instrument readings, but also the voices in the cockpit.
Sorry but he was not the first on that, he only developed the tochnology further
"The first modern flight data recorder, called "Mata Hari", was created in 1942 by Finnish aviation engineer Veijo Hietala. This black high-tech mechanical box was able to record all important details during test flights of fighter aircraft that the Finnish army repaired or built in its main aviation factory in Tampere, Finland"
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_recorder
Are not the FDR and CVR separate devices in modern aircraft?
@@grantodaniel7053Yes, and they are located apart from each other to ensure that at least one of them survive. I would go as far to say that Australians should be credited for the invention of CVR (Cockpit Voice Recorder) since Hietala's invention only recorded mechanical side of the airplane
modern contact lences in Czechoslovakia - Otto Wichterle and Drahoslav Lím introduced modern soft hydrogel lenses in 1959.
How cool! 😎
It seems to me that a lot of American Inventors took their lead from a certain Patent Addict called Edison. As far as i was taught the TV was invented by a scotsman called John Logie Baird.
Correct!
yes, John logie Baird, a scotsman who went to live in the US at some time, and whom Australia's Tv awards.....The Logies.....is named after.
..the first functional tv and technial epuiqment are in invented in germany by 4 germans BRAUN ( braunsche röhre), HERTZ, ARDENNE AND NIPKOW.
you can the check the history 👍
@@arnebollsen That was the (first) fully electronic TV. The "electromechanic" ones were really from the scots and the aussies. 👍
Die erste brauchbare Umsetzung erfand 1883 Paul Nipkow. Sein elektrisches Teleskop zerlegt mit Hilfe einer rotierenden, mit spiralförmig angeordneten Löchern versehenen Scheibe Bilder in Hell-Dunkel-Signale beziehungsweise setzt sie wieder zusammen. Er meldete diese nach ihm benannte Nipkow-Scheibe am 6. Januar 1884 zum Patent an. Nach seinen Ideen gelangen Anfang des 20. Jahrhunderts die ersten Fernsehbildübertragungen. Nipkow wird deshalb als der Erfinder der ersten praktischen Realisierung des Fernsehens bezeichnet.[
and Edison didnt "invent" light bulbs, they already existed. He manufactured a bulb with a better filament, and he sold a lot.
Edison *did* invent intellectual theft though!🤣
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The inventor of the telephone is actually Philipp Reis from Germany. He had already presented a model in 1861 and the name “telephone” also comes from him.
I just wanted to say. 😉 And afaik there was also an italian guy involved before.
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Marconi was the name. But Marconi's device sometimes had a slightly different mode of operation than Philipp Reis's. Moreover, it is not until 10 years after Reis's first screening that anything is documented in writing by Marconi.
In principle, Bell's "invention" is the stolen patent of Elisha Gray, who in principle wanted to patent a new edit of Reis's plans after his death. 🤷🏼♀️
A.G. Bell was born in Scotland, so even if he has the credit, not american origin of the man.
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@@Ace-Of-Spades--- Marconi is credited for the radio. Italians are taught that Antonio Meucci invented the phone.
the principle of traffic lights on the road was first put into operation in England. it had only two colors, red and green. the disadvantage was the quick change of stop and go, a few years later the American policeman added a yellow light so that the carriages and cars would have enough time to change color.
since you wear contact lenses... were patented in 1961 in the Czech Republic (Czechoslovak Republic). in 1965, an American company bought a license patent for their production for the American market. (google translate )
The Konrad Zuse computer was powered by relays
and that's why the term bug is used for errors
because it happened that an insect got lost between the contacts which led to calculation errors.
I think very few people even know where this term comes from, which is why software errors are still called BUG today.
The internet was not invented by the USA, but as a military network it invented the IP network, which was still a long way from the internet.
The basic for the internet is the Darpa Net using the TCP/IP the first time. WWW is only a service on this TCP/IP network using DNS Servers to identify Domains and dolmetch them into IP adresses.
Traffic lights: The initial ones weren't probably used mainly for cars but for horse drawn vehicles.
Internet: The first implementation of a packet based network (basically IP protocol) was done by the DOD in the US. They wanted to create a network for military equipment to safely communicate with each other. This of course didn't include other nowaday common protocols such as http. Then the UK inventory created the world wide web, which is the system that uses the internet to access web resources, such as a server with a website
TV was invented by another Brit, another Scot, Logie Baird.
Motion photography was invented in the UK. Google first ever film of a racing horse galloping. It was to settle a bet on whether all hooves leave the ground at the same time. Leeds, Yorkshire.
Alexander Graham Bell (telephone) was Scottish, but demonstrated it when he moved to the USA, 1st broadcast of TV was by John Logie Baird also Scottish, though we use a different system now
The Top Gear crew did a good joke about that one.
Conclusion was that whenever something comes out of Scotland, the UK says it's a UK invention (and the world follows suit for some reason), whenever something bad comes out of Scotland, the UK is all to glad to say the Scotts did it.
Philipp Reis invented the telephone. A german guy
the first functional and documented telephone was in 1861 in germany by philipp reis. he gives for this apparature the bame telephone.
you can on google check this😊
The inventor of the telephone is actually Philipp Reis from Germany. He had already presented a model in 1861 and gave the device the name “telephone”.
From 1865 onwards, some devices came to Russia, Great Britain, Ireland and the USA, where they further investigated and tried to develop Reis' telephone.
In the USA they only examined the model in 1868 and tried to improve it.
The OP source doesn't have a clue on any of the ordginals. 90% is wholly inaccurate
The UK had the first traffic light is 1868. Lester Wire invented the ELECTRIC version in 1912.
Faraday was English. Sorry Ian, had to click off, this video is BS. Not you my friend, the video you just reacted to. Peace.
Yeah, too many claims here are wrong.
No worries, I’m sorry to hear that the original video was so inaccurate.
I agree. Poor research or no research.
@@IWrocker sad to say because the telephone WAS invented by Alexander Graham Bell BUT he was Scottish NOT American he later set up an American telecommunications company BUT that is NOT where it was invented! Am going to stop watching this one now
Alfred Nobel was so horrified with how dynamite was being used so in his will he left instructions to give a prize and money annually to the person who had made the most important improvement or discovery to improve humanity over a wide range of fields. That's basically how the Nobel Prize's came about.
Richard William Pearse was a New Zealand farmer and inventor who performed pioneering aviation experiments. Witnesses interviewed many years afterward describe observing Pearse flying and landing a powered heavier-than-air machine on 31 March 1903, nine months before the Wright brothers flew.
John Logie Baird from Scotland patented the first television in 1922 and had his first ready for production TV in 1925. Australia has an award night each year for TV personalities . Its called " The Logie Awards" or as Aussie's say " The Logies".
For the camera, the first movie camera came from Kodiak and Thomas Edison (kinetograph) but real inventor is Louis Le Prince who disigned first what we called camera today. Unfortunatelly the guy disapeared in a train and nobody know, even today, what's happened
Tim Berners-Lee, a British scientist, invented the World Wide Web (WWW) in 1989, while working at CERN. The web was originally conceived and developed to meet the demand for automated information-sharing between scientists in universities and institutes around the world.
In short the first world wide internet was invented by a british scientist in CERN (France-Switzerland border).
6:13 Paul Julius Gottlieb Nipkow was a German engineer and inventor. He invented the Nipkow disk, which laid the foundation for the development of mechanical television. For this disc, he applied for an imperial patent from the Imperial Patent Office in Berlin for an electric telescope for the “electrical reproduction of luminous objects” in the category of electrical apparatus. It was granted to him on January 15, 1885, retroactive to January 6, 1884. Wikipedia
i want to pay tribute to all the inventers over the years who gave us amazing things that they have achived its incredible
Usually in those listings there are a lot of misinformations.
You are right. This video will give a lot of people the wrong idea. What was this person thinking of, when making this video.
@@pfffetc6149 Not much, probably! 😁😉
Zuse's computer was the first programmable computer. There were loads of calculating machines in decades and even centuries earlier. But they usually had only very simple arithmatic functions. The Z3 was the first truly programmable computer. Mind you, the abilities were extremely limited in the beginning.
Yes. And in 1998 Raul Rojas found out, that the Z3 was even Turing-complete with the help of two little hacks. Only a leeetle bit slow...
And fun fact: Zuse invented the Computer because he was too lazy to do mental arithmetric. Imagine that - true genius.
Thomas Johnson developed the first patch in 1846 that was coated with a sticky substance and could be easily applied to the skin. The patch's worldwide breakthrough came in the 1920s, when Johnson & Johnson launched the first waterproof patch.
I think 1846 was a few decades before 1921.
So the patch was invented in England.
One important invention missed out was the telegraph. The work of many scientists from places such as Britain, Spain, Italy, The US, Germany & Denmark amongst others incrementally lead to the first working telegraph being invented in Britain by Francis Ronalds in 1816. This was improved upon by Baron Schilling of Russia, Gaus & Webber of Germany & finally by Cooke & Wheatstone of Britain in 1837. Samuel Morse patented a different telegraph in 1837, which is the one adopted by most of the world.
This exemplifies many inventions how many inventions came about before the 20th century, which is why at least four countries can claim to be the place that the electric lightbulb was invented, and all be right.
Think of it like this: the internet is the infrastructure on which the World Wide Web is running. WWW is a layer on top of the low level communication protocols that allow information to be exchanged, so without that the World Wide Web couldn't work.
Richard Pearse of New Zealand flew and landed his powered heavier-than-air machine on 31 March 1903, nine months before the Wright Brothers.
The TV was invented by a Scotsman John Logie Baird.
Edison didn't invent light bulbs, he saw them and improved them for his electrical system.
As for the battery maybe the modern battery was invented by Italy but they have found "batteries" that were made BCE.
There are claims that Gustave Whitehead flew heavier than air airplanes in 1901 and 1902, so the would precede Pearse's attempts.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustave_Whitehead
@@YouHaventSeenMeRight yea i've heard about the Gustave guy before
They give the invention to the Wrights because they had Controlled flight, see Wing Warping, . Earlier machines have bugger all control and were akin to powered hang gliders.
The late 80's to early 90's was wild in terms of viruses.
It exposed what real hackers still use today as their main attack vector to get into major networks.
If you infect a floppy (or now USB) disk with a virus and it has even the idea of having something remotely interesting on it, people will use these disks and spread the virus.
Back when I was in highschool, this was done by copying games and programs on floppy disks. These in turn infected PCs and copies of the same floppy disks.
Intrusion into major networks today is still 95% manipulating people rather than writing clever code.
and a certain peer to peer network was legendary for being a crapshoot for either getting a file or a virus (cough cough limewire cough)
5:10
stationary power, same as steam.
Drove a big wheel on which a big ol' belt was transmitting the power.
Nikolas August Otto refined the design and the fuel source from first black powder to Town Gas and eventually gasoline, at this point we were introduced to an engineer by the name Rudolf Diesel.
2:47 Why did the Name of Alessandro Volta was not there ?
It was presented the first time to a science exposition in Paris which Napoleon Bonaparte assisted ( he was a member of the academy since 1797 ).
5:12 Lenoir created a four-stroke engine based on the principle of the" Beau de Rochas" cycle: his gas-powered automobile travels 9 kilometers from Paris to Joinville-le-Pont in three hours (3 km/h).
Lenoir manufactured it in 1860 in 400 examples10 which were used, the following year, to operate the first motorboat on the Seine. This engine only produced the equivalent power of 2 horses .
5:53 The way to mass produce them : yes.
BUT he didn't invented them.
7:24 Wrong it was a Kynetoscope, a machine that allows a single person to pay to see a film in a box in which they watch.
The Lumières brothers created what we know as motion picture cinema in 1895.
7:34 It has been proved by historians, engineers and justice court that in fact Marconi stole multiple Westinghouse-Tesla and didn't credited them, inventor no, thief and scammer yes.
8:46 It required a catapult so not really the first ones.
Clément Ader and alberto Santos-Dumont are actualy the most prominent names in term of SELF propelled airplanes.
Jacob Perkins did not invent the Refrigerator. In 1834 he built a cooling device that cooled by pumping ether into cooling coil systems. This was used on ships. The disadvantage of ether was that it tended to explode when mixed with air.
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Little History
In 1748, William Cullen demonstrated the first artificial refrigeration at the University of Glasgow.
An important further development was the use of ammonia by Ferdinand Carré in 1859.
In 1876, the German engineer and entrepreneur Carl von Linde developed the Linde process, which was fundamental to science and technology. His invention made it possible to improve the reliability of the compressor and the entire refrigeration machine to such an extent that they became suitable for industrial use. Now it was possible to produce water ice industrially all year round; it was no longer necessary to rely on natural ice. Its initial development was also still powered by ammonia. This substance is toxic, corrosive and caused not only leaks but also a foul odor, so refrigerators were not suitable for domestic use until the 1920s, when substitute chemicals were developed.
Electric refrigerators
Carl von Linde had already received patents for refrigeration machines in 1874 and 1876.
Linde's machines were used industrially in breweries.
Refrigerator with refrigerating machine by Marcel Audiffren (1909)
Marcel Audiffren's refrigeration machine was patented in France in 1894; it used sulphur dioxide as a refrigerant. Refrigerators based on this were manufactured by General Electric in the USA from 1911.
The 'Bee Hive' Refrigerator from B.T.H., England, with a cooling unit on top. (Thinktank Collection, Birmingham Science Museum)
2nd Bosch refrigerator from 1935
Painting of refrigerator housings in Magdeburg (1958)
Refrigerator production at VEB Kühlautomat Berlin 1988
In 1916, the "Guardian Frigerator Company" was founded in the USA for the construction of electrically operated refrigerators. This company was bought by General Motors two years later (1918) and renamed "Frigidaire".
Refrigerators for private households were launched from the 1920s onwards, but due to their high price, they were not widely used at first.
From around 1925, Frigidaire also had its refrigerators and cooling systems manufactured and sold in Austria (by the tractor manufacturer Warchalowski in Vienna). These appliances were also sold in Austria by others.
In 1929, the one millionth Frigidaire refrigerator was completed in the USA.
The first German (and therefore another European) household refrigerator was developed in 1929 by the Zschopauer Motorenwerke J.S. Rasmussen, founded by Jørgen Skafte Rasmussen. Their brand DKW-Kühlung became Deutsche Kühl- und Kraftmaschinen GmbH in Scharfenstein in 1931.
From 1930, Frigidaire also had evaporators and compressors manufactured in Berlin.
In 1933, Bosch presented its first electric refrigerator, which was intended to make electric refrigeration affordable in private households.
From 1938, Frigidaire had complete refrigerators manufactured by Opel in Rüsselsheim (Germany).
With the spread of electricity and the refrigerator, its predecessor, the electricity-free icebox, lost its appeal. The word Eisschrank (icebox in Austria) is still used colloquially for the refrigerator in use today.
The popular refrigerator announced by propaganda in the Third Reich in 1938, which was also intended to be affordable for the general public, never went into series production due to the war.
From 1950, with the economic miracle, refrigerators with a combination of fridge and freezer compartments became widespread in private households in West Germany.
Bosch produced its 50,000th refrigerator in 1951.
Bauknecht produced its first refrigerator in 1951.
Liebherr began developing refrigerators in 1954 and started series production in 1955.
In the course of the 1960s, freezers and cabinets also became common.
Contact lenses are from Czechia. Invented by Otto Wichterle.
5:02 Etienne Lenoir was a Belgian living in France when he invented the internal combustion engine... but it was Nikolaus August Otto that developed the 4 stroke engine that improved the efficiency of the internal combustion engine by squeezing the mixture before igniting it.
A lot of famous inventions are actually just improvements of things that already existed. The telephone was first invented by Philipp Reis from Germany. He even came up with its name.
A lot of these were invented by someone but were not made into something actually useable until one or more people improved them e.g. refrigerators, televisions, radar, and computers to name just a few
Well, if something is begun but is still unusable, the person who makes it usable is the real champion. What's the point in lauding something that doesn't work?
@@xymonau2468 Wrong, they just improved it. An inventor is the person who has an idea and then was the first to make it work. 🙄. They all worked just not as well as later versions.
@@thetruth6417 But the point is they didn't make it work and the people coming after actually did make it work. Working badly is not working at all.
Michael Faraday, for example, was British, not from the US. And as for the bifocal lenses - how can anyone say they are a major invention? Alfred Nobel created the Nobel Peace prize because h was so distraught at the un-peaceful uses of dynamite.
A gentle comment on the "facts" in this video.
To take something with a "grain of salt" or "pinch of salt" is an English idiom that suggests to view something, specifically claims that may be misleading or unverified, with skepticism or to not interpret something literally.
In the old-fashioned English units of weight, a grain weighs approximately 65 mg, which is about how much table salt a person might pick up between the fingers as a pinch.
The difference beetween who invented the thing and who was quickest to the payent office ofteen decides who goes down in the history books.
Dynamite wasn’t a weapon when it was invented.
Good point
actually the first use of fingerprints was made by era Juan Vucetich, a argentinian police investigator in 1903
Alfred Nobel actually created the Nobel Prize to wash out his reputation of "merchant of death", being an inventor and businessman in explosives.
Wind towers/wind catchers would be used in ancient times (mostly around the Mediterranean/the Middle-East). They were built like chimneys on top of houses and were designed to funnel wind into homes. That way, the flowing air would create a breeze throughout the entire home, blowing the warm stagnant air outside, keeping the home cool.
Alexander Graham Bell was a Scottish-Canadian inventor was born in Scotland.
But Enrico Fermi was Italian. This is a strange list.
The laser also had more authors, it was worked on in Germany already during World War II, and they had results in Russia at the same time as the American team. For me, it is more interesting that in Czechoslovakia they had a laser already in 1962. From the Eastern Bloc at that time, they were second only to Russia.
While the Icebox was common, none of them were refrigerated. Refrigeration profoundly changed the world, but few know it is an Australian invention dating back to the 1850's. In our series 'Things That Made Australia', Tim Lee meets a group of historians keen to memorialise its Geelong inventor, James Harrison.
The first universally working fridge was made by Carl von Linde. Look up Linde industries today...
@@Hartmut-oo5tsRefrigeration was invented by James Harrison. I didn't say anything about fridges. In 1854, Harrison created a commercial ice-making machine in Geelong, which he then expanded to create a vapour-compression refrigeration system, which he was awarded a patent for in 1855.
Carl Von Linde, while an assistant professor of machine design at the newly established Technische Hochschule in Munich from 1868, he developed a methyl ether refrigerator (1874) and an ammonia refrigerator (1876). Though other refrigeration units had been developed earlier, Linde’s were the first to be designed with the aim of precise calculations of efficiency.
So I don't know, I would say we're both right. Refrigeration/fridge somewhere between 1850 & 1877 both were created.
Sorry for the story, I'm a history buff. Thou I could be bothered, I did copy Carl's text out of the encyclopedia. The rest I knew, from Aussie teachings. I actually done a school project/assignment on refrigeration techniques. I only got a B+, the second highest score in the class. Damn working model volcano, should not have won.
I distinctly remember my early high school science class when our teacher taught us about Edward Jenner and his observation that milkmaids who developed mild cowpox had a seeming immunity to smallpox. We learnt that day that the word “vaccine” comes from the Latin “vacca” meaning “a cow”. It was a catalyst for me to take French as a language that was being offered at my high school for the first time. Their word for cow is “vache”. For the next 50 years I recognised so many root words and could figure out a lot of nouns and verbs even in Spanish and Portuguese. You never know where it will take you so I’m so glad I made that subject choice when I was 12. Now I know it would have been easier to pick up if I’d started language lessons years earlier in kindergarten.
Ian, this has been a very entertaining segment so thanks for posting it. Robyn in Sydney. 🤗 PS Please say “Bendiciones” from me 😊to your lovely wife, her dad and your little girl. My best friend is Cuban (mi hermanito de una otra madre) so I may have a Spanish vocabulary similar to yours by now.
The internet itself was indeed invented in the US, but that version was only used for military and governement purposes, the world wide web was basically a "user interface" that allowed the internet to be more easily and widely accessible, internet and world wide web are not the same thing even thoug a lot of people confuse the two...
On top of that I'd like to add that the very first web browser with a graphical interface, i.e somewhat like the ones we all use today, was actually invented in Finland!
internet is like the road system where www was like the bus service that made it accessible for everyone.
Logie-Baird tv Scotland
Americans try to undermine this all the time and say some other guy invented it but it's bollocks
I thought Yogi bear was American? ;)
It is believed that the Nobel Prize was an attempt by Alfred Nobel to leave a better legacy in the world than having improved military weaponry through his ingenuity. 🙏
This video about inventions is worth shit. Interestingly, there is no man (Pole) named Ignacy Łukasiewicz who invented the kerosene lamp and kerosene. He is also considered the father of the modern oil industry (fuel refining) because he built the world's first refinery in Poland. In 1856, on Łukasiewicz's initiative, the world's first oil refinery was established in Ulaszowice near Jasło. The second man who played an important role was the Serbian Nikola Tesla, who is also not included in the list.
Yeah, agree, some of these are just simply wrong. Other inventors are not even mentioned. Peace.
@@custard71 I agree, there are missing inventions in the field of radiation, space, X-ray, bulletproof vest, submarines
Traffic relating Finnish inventions are pedestrian reflector and winter tires. Yes, it's dark and snowy here during winters. Winter tires were invented in 1934 by Suomen Gummitehdas Osakeyhtiö, which was Nokian Tires predecessor. Their tires got world wide fame in the 60s, when several Monte Carlo Rally winners used them. Nokia of course became later famous for their mobile phones and for the first GSM network. First graphic based web browser was also invented in Finland by a group of students. High percentage of the critical computer systems-in internet included-run on some version of Linux, which was created by a Finn, Linus Torvalds, when he was still a student. E.g. the 500 most powerful supercomputers use Linux. The "Thomas Edison of Finland, Eric Tigerstedt, was a pioneer of sound-on-film technology and made significant improvements to the amplification capacity of the vacuum valve. He presented his sound on film system in 1914, but his invention was never commercialized. He also developed directional loudspeakers, predicted such future inventions as television and invented the mobile phone, for which he in 1917 successfully filed a patent.
The electric motor credited the US but Michael faraday was an English scientist from Surrey, who made that video?
The last clip alone shows that it was all nonsense. So many mistakes. The video that was reacted to was unfortunately insufficiently researched.
The problem with the Bicycle is the Need for a relatively decent road. Horse and Walking cover pretty much any terrain.
To Be able to Utilize a bicycle you need a grid of Paths you can ride on.
Therein for late blooming...
There's a HUGE mistake in there, they correctly identify Michael Faraday as the inventor of the electric motor but he was English NOT American and it was invented in the UK - sheesh
They discovered batteries dating back about 2000 years and is named the Baghdad Battery. The reflective telescope might be invented in the UK, the microscope and telescope was invented in the Netherlands.
It's good you mentioned contact lenses. They are not mentioned in the video but they were actually invented in Czechoslovakia by Otto Wichterle...well he didn't actually invent them but until then they had been hard and very uncomfortable to wear.
Yeah, Wichterle invented the soft lenses.
Another invention from Czechoslovakia is ship propeller (lodní šroub in Czech) invented by Josef Ressel in 1827
Did you know that in 1888, Coburg Germany invented the first electric vehicle? *.*
Before fridges existed, many households kept food cool inside a "Coolgardie Safe", which was invented in the late 1890s. The safes used water to trickle down through the hessian covering, as an evaporative cooling device. Arthur Patrick McCormick (contractor in Coolgardie, and later Mayor of Narrogin in Western Australia) is credited as the inventor of the Coolgardie Safe. Some people in outback Australia still keep water cold in hession bags hung on the front of their cars, which operates on the same principle.
Czechia has some you might be interested in - soft contact lenses, color photography, blood typing, semtex (the explosive) and of course the ship propeller, which is sort of weird, since there is no sea.
no the netherlands invented wifi !!!
Alexander Graham Bell was British, Scottish to be precise not American. He did form AT & T in USA.
The inventor of the internal combustion engine is actually the Austrian Christian Reithmann and he operated the first engine in 1852. His engine already had 4 strokes back then
You didnt know the back story of the Nobel price?
The first camera was invented by a Pole, "Aeroscope) - the world's first hand-held automatic film camera with image stabilization, constructed in 1908 by a Polish inventor and designer, Kazimierz Prószyński." The first car is considered to be a steam vehicle built in 1769 in France. The first patented car was built by Carl Benz in 1885 (patent January 1886), and the first car to be introduced to the commercial market was Panhard-Levassor. Carl Benz is generally considered to be the inventor of the car, as he created the first vehicle in 1885. However, few people remember that seventy years earlier than Carl Benz, a Silesian - Józef Bożek, also constructed a vehicle resembling later versions of the car.
The peace price came around after someone reported him dead and they listed how many his invetions had killed in war and basicly said - yeah he is dead not a great loss for humanity. So he put money up for the peace price (along with his prices for Litterature, Medicin, Chemistry and Physics) so he paid for the prices to be a thing for HELPING humanity
Finland:
The first internet browser with a graphical user interface (in other words, not just plain text).
Fiskars scissors
Safety reflector
Sauna
Angry Birds
Nokia
Ice Skates
Linux OS
SMS (texting)
There are many inaccuracies in this video.
Kathy Loves Physics & History a great UA-cam channel, is great source of the history of some of these inventions.
That video is just pure trolling.
Half of this is soooooo wrong lol
Just because yanks are funny cattle I will clarify that the Benz "horseless carriage" was REALLY gas powered NOT gas(oline) powered. The use of the term gas for what is actually petrol is one that really gets up my nose.
For anyone interested. Brain was not the first personal computer virus nor did it require Microsoft Windows. It was however, the first IBM PC/Compatible virus. It replicated via floppy disk boot sector .
Elk Cloner was infecting Apple II PCs in 1982, around 4 years earlier than Brain. Also,while elk cloner and Brain replicated by writing itself to the boot sector of floppy disks, Elk cloner was also distributed as a trojan horse, since the virus code was built into a game called Elk Hunter, which was distributed and downloaded via BBS. Play the game - get infected.....
Babbage computer
Babbage built the first mechanical programmable computer, Zuse the first electric one (based on relays).
Common myth. Gunpowder was not invented in China. It was neither invented nor from China.
A simular compound came from China, but it was not until it reach europe when it was refined to the degree it burn so fast it could be used in fire arms. Chinese did use it in rockets, but not in fire arms. (Fire arms did eventually track back to china).
There is a simular story wirh most technology, they are typically never invented. Invention basically don't exist.
A lot of the countries at least in the early part is just wrong. The people republic of china didnt exist in year 800
Fariday was certanly not from the us.. and here also. Electric motor was developed over a very long period of time.
Internal combistion motor was also developed over a period of time the first once was replacment for steam engines. They needed no heatup or driver. So they was much cheaper to operate for small instalations. What they was used for was local power. First belt, later electricity.
Internet was very much not imvented. It was developed. And what is really considered intenet is the formation lf the tcp/ip protocoll that happen a bit later. Arpa net was the genral hardware.
What was developed in swizerland was HTTP that is one of the most important component. What makes that a bit iffy is that they guy who created it was a british scientist that just happen to have hi office in swizerland.
Yes - as Ian said, take it all, with a grain of salt - Google shows the UK, the US and Australia as all being first or responsible for inventing the refrigerator or refrigeration with different dates.
Throwing in some Canadian inventions here. Insulin, Pacemakers, Electric wheelchair and Wheelchair buses, Basketball , the first gas masks our current model of Standard Time, just to name a few!
TV had many inventors. Also not forget the cameras. From early Nipkow-disk to Ikonoskopes to CCDs to CMOS. What a ride!
First HDTV btw was in Germany for the 1936 summer olympics. That picture was much better than VHS half a century later!
Whos video was this ....they done no research at all .....half was wrong.... USA claiming atuff they didnt invent ......must of been an American youtuber who learned his facts at high school ,🤦🤷🏻
Www was invented in Switzerland in CERN 1989. Only the guy was born from the UK.
Ah yes. That famous american, Michael Faraday. 😆
Edit: Oh man. Lots and lots of errors in this.
USA for powerd flight which is a big deal but gliders were long before, Germany i think ?
"Thought these came out of America" tell me you are american without telling me you are american...........holy f.... that is the most american thing i have heard for a long time,, and i watch alot of these kind of vids..... i know you do have a open mind.. but you couldnt expose the american way of illusions of grandeur.. in a better sentence LOL
Scottish engineer John Logie Baird invented television.
Internet (first Arpanet) was invented in the US for the military before it became accessable for the public.
On the automobile: Benz invented the gas-powered car. Mwah....... maybe. But in 1834, Dutchman Sibrandus Stratingh drove through the streets of Groningen in a steam-powered vehicle that was basically a Coupé (carriage) with a small steam engine at the front behind which the driver sat. Just like later, early gas-powered cars. Before him Frenchman Nicolas Cugnot designed a steam-powered vehicle, that was built by a certain M. Brezin, in 1769. Etienne Lenoir built a petroleum powered enige (to generate electricity for Parisian electrical streetlights) and put it in his coach in the early 1860's. Alphonse Beau de Roche invented a motor that compressed and exploded the gas in the same cylinder (but neglected to patent it). German Nicolaus Otto did, and designed the first four-stroke engine in 1862. A design "stolen" by Benz ans Daimler. In 1801 British engineer Trevithick built a steam powered 3 wheeled vehicle with rear drive. In 1830, amongst others Stratingh, was experimenting with electrical vehicles.
So.... saying Benz invented the automobile is a bit of an oversimplification, at least! He built the first commercially viable automobile.
9:45 The invention of the electric traffic light comes from America, but it was invented much earlier!
A red-green idea from London
But people didn't think about traffic lights until the 20th century.
The first traffic lights were installed in London in 1869, 155 years ago. They were powered by gas lamps.
John Logie Beard,from Scotland, invented television.
2:56 The Baghdad Battery, also known as the Battery of the Parthians or the Battery of Khu-jut Rabuah, is a clay pot found in 1936 during excavations of a Parthian settlement at the site of the Khujut Rabuah hill near Baghdad. Since the vessel contains a copper cylinder and an iron rod, Wilhelm König, the director of the Iraqi National Museum, speculated that it - connected in a series of similar objects - could have served as a battery 2000 years ago, even though electricity was still unknown at that time according to current knowledge .
James Harrison invented the first refrigerator in Australia in 1854.
John Logie Baird invented the TV
1:12 Fun fact: John Harington is Kit Harington's (Jon Snow from GoT) distant ancestor-his great, great, great-plus grandfather.
9:38 back then they could have been used for trams, trains and other transportation methods
Ben Franklin was the Ambassador to China where he saw Bifocals. Hen he came home he introduced Bifocals.
you can thank OZ for contact lenses
Soft contacts
One of the most important inventions came from the russian Alexei Paschitnow: Yes. "Tetris" :D
Yep Alfred Nobel and the dynamite, i think he also blew up a couple of factories along the way.😮