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Top Ten Inventions That Changed The World by Playwhizard(m): 11:23pm On Mar 25, 2016 |
1. The electric furnace (1889) It was “the only
means for commercially producing
Carborundum (the hardest of all manufactured
substances).” The electric furnace also converted
aluminum “from a merely precious to very
useful metal” (by reducing it’s price 98 percent),
and was “radically transforming the steel
industry.”
2. The steam turbine, invented by Charles
Parsons in 1884 and commercially introduced
over the next 10 years. A huge improvement in
powering ships, the more far-reaching use of
this invention was to drive generators that
produced electricity.
3. The gasoline-powered automobile. Many
inventors worked toward the goal of a “self-
propelled” vehicle in the 19th century. Wyman
gave the honor specifically to Gottleib Daimler
for his 1889 engine, arguing: “a century's
insistent but unsuccessful endeavor to provide a
practical self-propelled car proves that the
success of any type that once answered
requirements would be immediate. Such success
did come with the advent of the Daimler motor,
and not before.”
4. The moving picture. Entertainment always
will be important to people. “The moving
picture has transformed the amusements of the
multitude.” The technical pioneer he cited was
Thomas Edison.
5. The airplane. For “the Realization of an age-
long dream” he gave the laurels of success to
the Wright brothers, but apart from its military
use reserved judgment on the utility of the
invention: “It presents the least commercial
utility of all the inventions considered.”
6. Wireless Telegraphy. Systems for transmitting
information between people have been around
for centuries, perhaps millennia. Telegraph
signals got a speed boost in the U.S. from
Samuel Morse and Alfred Vail. Wireless
telegraphy as invented by Guglielmo Marconi,
later evolving into radio, set information free
from wires.
7. The cyanide process. Sounds toxic, yes? It
appears on this list for only one reason: It is
used to extract gold from ore. “Gold is the life
blood of trade,” and in 1913 it was considered to
be the foundation for international commerce
and national currencies.
8. The Nikola Tesla induction motor. “This
epoch-making invention is mainly responsible
for the present large and increasing use of
electricity in the industries.” Before people had
electricity in their homes, the alternating
current–producing motor constructed by Tesla
supplied 90 percent of the electricity used by
manufacturing.
9. The Linotype machine. The Linotype machine
enabled publishers—largely newspapers—to
compose text and print it much faster and
cheaper. It was an advance as large as the
invention of the printing press itself was over
the painstaking handwritten scrolls before it.
Pretty soon we won’t be using paper for writing
and reading, so the history of printing will be
forgotten anyway.
10. The electric welding process of Elihu
Thomson. In the era of mass production, the
electric welding process enabled faster
production and construction of better, more
intricate machines for that manufacturing
process. |
Re: Top Ten Inventions That Changed The World by Jethrolite(m): 9:40am On Mar 26, 2016 |
Playwhizard: |
Re: Top Ten Inventions That Changed The World by harmbhrosz(m): 11:13am On Mar 26, 2016 |
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Re: Top Ten Inventions That Changed The World by Donald3d(m): 3:24pm On Mar 26, 2016 |
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