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Peter Carl Goldmark (1906-1977)
Invented:

The LP record.

Lived to See:

Rap DJs scratching the hell out of them.

EUREKA!

Through WWII, records were available only at 78 RPM speeds, which our older readers will remember as the awesome setting that made everybody sound like The Chipmunks. The big disadvantage to 78s was a limit of about five minutes per side. As Goldmark later recalled his 1945 epiphany:

"I was at a party listening to Brahms being played by the great Horowitz. Suddenly there was a click. The most horrible sound man ever invented, right in the middle of the music. Somebody rushed to change records. The mood was broken."

Just like a parent, every inventor has to send their child out into the world. Sometimes that child becomes a doctor or a movie star. Other times that child ends up in a clock tower with a rifle...

With that in mind we present some of history's greatest inventors who lived to see their inventions take on unexpected, terrifying lives of their own...

Invented:

The airplane.

Lived to See:

One used to vaporize an entire city.

EUREKA!

You know the story of the Wright brothers. December 17, 1903, Orville is the one inside the plane:
Orville had big dreams for the invention he and his brother became famous for. Really big dreams. He thought it would end warfare forever.

In 1915, Orville (his brother Wilbur had passed away by then) predicted aerial reconnaissance would make war "... too expensive, too slow, too difficult, too long drawn out" for anyone to keep doing it. After the U.S. entered WWI, Orville confidently wrote that the nation with the most airborne scouts, "will win the war and put an end to war."

Put an end to war! Awesome! Hey, how did that turn out?

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Orville Wright (1871-1948)



Invented:

The airplane.

Lived to See:

One used to vaporize an entire city.

EUREKA!

You know the story of the Wright brothers. December 17, 1903, Orville is the one inside the plane:



Orville had big dreams for the invention he and his brother became famous for. Really big dreams. He thought it would end warfare forever.

In 1915, Orville (his brother Wilbur had passed away by then) predicted aerial reconnaissance would make war "... too expensive, too slow, too difficult, too long drawn out" for anyone to keep doing it. After the U.S. entered WWI, Orville confidently wrote that the nation with the most airborne scouts, "will win the war and put an end to war."

Put an end to war! Awesome! Hey, how did that turn out?

CRAP!

While Orville looked at the plane and dreamed of world peace, everybody else was thinking, "Wow, those people down on the ground look like tiny ants! Ants I could totally crush from up here!"



But still, he clung to the idea. At the end of WWI, Orville wrote that "the aeroplane has made war so terrible that I do not believe any country will again care to start a war," and five years later authored a radio broadcast declaring that "the aeroplane, in forcing upon governments a realization of the possibilities for destruction, has actually become a powerful instrument for peace."

At that same moment, military engineers scratched their chins and said, "You know, we really haven't realized the possibilities for destruction in these things. We've packed as many bombs as it can carry... can we make the bombs like, way deadlier? Would that work?"

Orville Wright held to his optimism until passing in early 1948. Which means he lived long enough to see...



... the dropping of the atomic bomb. In 1945, this invention that started out as a flimsy thing that could barely skim over the ground, dropped city-flattening bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. And that was the culmination of six years of devastating warfare in which city after city was shattered by aerial bombardment.

We have to say, though, it did nothing to dampen the man's spirit. In a typically on-the-bright-side letter to a friend shortly after the atomic bombings, Orville wrote, "I once thought the aeroplane would end wars. I now wonder whether the aeroplane and the atomic bomb can do it."

Which leads us to ask the obvious: You mean one of his friends actually asked him what he thought about the atomic bombs? Geez, talk about a dick move. On the bright side, Orville Wright did live to see Chuck Yeager's breaking of the sound barrier, which had to have blown his fucking mind.

The past earthquakes ( corruption ) that almost ruined the whole country is yet to unravel its aftermath effect in the lives of Nigerians. I pray Nigeria does not experience another earthquake ( this time around we wouldn't be able to control but manage ) even though the earlier earthquakes ( corruption ) were controllable but we failed blatantly to control them.

Good thinking, good product!!!

Interested my email is jetplain39@gmail.com

Funny though!!! The true analysis of the map of africa having Nigeria located at the anus of a woman according to the pics to me means Nigeria is important and it holds a key post to the life of the continent. I believe we all know the function of Anus " which is to pass out faeces out of human body.

No human being ( Africa's continent ) will survive with faeces inside her for a long time without Anus helping out. Therefore their surviving ( Africa ) depends on Nigeria ( Anus ) We Nigeria control them ( other Africans ) on whether they LIVE or DIE. Nigeria by this analysis is truly the giant of Africa!!!!!!

PaulIdu:
Look like he is trying to build a power copter , my fear is that he might never get the concept of the main rotor right as regards blade tilt angles that would create lift, drop and bank motions ..I also have concerns about the use of a back propeller to create forward thrust when the main rotor could have provided that ..My advise is that he abandon the idea of the main rotor because he can never get that right where he is at now and go for a fixed wing fabric glider instead so his craft becomes a power glider. ..the guy try sha I even noticed he built a cyclic pitch stick on that thing

You made some points, but I believe that thing will fly if he did his assignments well e.g the disc where d blades would fix into which would control banking in d four cardinal directions, weight balancing or distribution around d fulcrum of the gyrocopter, blade weight balanced as well ( here the thicker the depth of the blade the heavier the load it can lift ), the back propeller should be capable of generating the thrust needed to achieve minimum takeoff speed.The rudder would help in d process of banking right or left. I believe it can fly if d right understanding is put in to use.

This is a gyrocopter!!! They are Lucky they have fund to finance their project. I and a friend of mine once had a task to build this machine but had to drop it because of lack of fund despite the construction plan we already designed.

This is due to people's mindset of believe that only white folks are qualified to do this forgetting that knowledge is universal. You don't have to be a professor before you can get one. I wish this folks the best in their adventure in manned aviation research work.

Opistorincos:
I've been at osogbo for the past two months now and the totality of the hours light was taken amounts to 5hours.

I want to believe the source of electricity for your locality is mini hydro electric plant. This mini hydro electric plant is highly efficient and can cover thousand of houses especially in rural communities.

I have been researching for many months on how this mini hydro electric plant can be taken to d next level where the mini dam can be ( made mobile ) erected on your landed property. I may public my results here on naira land at due time.

Almaiga:
Nice one, let them keep exposing themselves.

Yes bro , just that exposing is not good enough rather the necessary punishment be dished out to the culprits.

They shouldn't have killed them rather they should have traced or followed them to their main destination then they can attack.

Good one!!

Nature could be funny!!

Call07034780891:
You have a better option and you are sleeping on Nairaland 24/7. Is it on Nairaland that you will build your own plant? Why not hit the field and start off with something!

I know your type therefore no need answering you!!!

Call07034780891:
Is it your father's money or that of the private investor? Do you know the SPECs of the plant to determine the cost? Answer me fast..

No sir, I expected you to have asked if I had a better option or method of generating the same Megawatt or more with lesser cost/price.

Cost is too high

Cost is too high.

Africa where are you?

I can generate this at a more cheaper price if only my idea or innovation is supported !!!!!

It is a welcome development that we should encourage and support!! About 90% of Nigeria's population understand this language very well which on the long run will bring about unity and understanding unlike a language that less than 30% of the total population understand.

mrvitalis:
Why steal money when u don't know what to invest the knee into. ....
Bruce could not invest 11bn and make profit for over 10 years and this are the set of people that rule us and we want development??
By 2019 u will still vote ur brother, who will steal ur collective wealth and u hail him because ur from same place.. .
Until we learn to hate for individuals of integrity no matter the party they stand... then we won't have any serious development

Correct man!!! You don't belong to the group of " na our daughter or son syndrome " The earlier the better Nigerians do away with ""its our daughter or son mentality " and embrace punishment for the finger that errs.

They will never experience peace even after returning it because d spirit of those they have sent to their early grave as a result of the aftermath of their looting will keep hunting for them.

Ready4watever:
The most sensible station In Yoruba land,I am proud to have a link there
Other states from the west are sabotuers,take or leave it,without ondo
State,south west would have been forgotten,the most educated,,,,,catch me if you can,,,,
So fly like aero plane,but never land like Amsterdam..........

This your statement can't separate Yoruba unity!!! Your trick isn't working.

Good job Efcc!!!!

The Yoruba's won't see this as witch hunting against them in as much the culprit is found guilty of his offense he should pay darely for it. Nobody cares which tribe he is from. The poliTHIEFcians have turned many youthful and useful youths to street hawkers as alternative to surviving.

hottest111:
Guy, most of these hawkers n traders don't have enough capital to rent a proper shop, so by Hawking their product they'll be able to make enough money to at least rent a shop. Most people don't knw what the common man is going thru, they sit in their comfort zone n be talking trash..
Bro, think about it..Re these hawkers not still better than those touts (agbero) who forcefully collect money from commercial driver. Let the government take care of those tout first..

Sorry to say this, this is d more reason why we need to support d president on clamping down on the polithiefcians who have stolen your money and my money in billions from the national treasury and had reduced many to street hawking as an alternative to surviving.

That is the platform we can use to secure our destines from these wicked and corrupt polithiefcians. Let us collectively irrespective of tribe channel our grievances to the polithiefcians.


They are the major reason we are in this MESS!!!!! We should stop this mentality of " he is our son or daughter ". As for me any polithiefcian caught stole should be punished heavily I don't care the tribe such polithiefcian comes from.

And 2morrow women will come out start screaming gender inequality!!! The men are the majority victims of gender in equality treatment world wide. Why should she quit d relationship based on what he did( even though I don't support it)? The OP fainted and woke up in d hospital this could had led to his death and yet never called for the relationship to be terminated.


Op u can continue to beg her sha incase she refuses to yield then move on with your life it shows she belongs to d class of people that would always receive but would never give ( they like to be forgiven but they will never forgive others). Ladies in this category don't worth being taken as a wife because it will always be about how they feel and never consider how you feel.

pippimp:
That is not a tractor. A tractor has large rear wheels by definition.

Na only definition you sabi!!!!!!

adegeye38:
NIGERIA IS THE ONLY COUNTRY IN THE WORLD WITH OUR RESOURCES AND INCOME THAT HAVE POWER ISSUES, MOST COUNTRIES IN AFRICA HAVE STEADY ELECTRICITY ITS A NORMAL THING, IT ONLY IN NIGERIA THAT ITS ROCKET SCIENCE, DUE TO THE CORRUPTION AND STUPIDITY OF THOSE IN POWER, THE OBVIOUS SOLUTION IS THAT, NEW POWER GENERATION PLANTS SHOULD BE BUILT, POWERED BY COAL, NUCLEAR AND RENEWABLE ENERGY LIKE WIND TURBINES AND SOLAR, SOUTH AFRICA GENERATE 30,000 MEGAWATTS OF ELECTRICITY FOR A COUNTRY OF 50 MILLION PEOPLE, USA GENERATES 120,000 MEGAWATTS MOSTLY FROM COAL, GERMANY GETS MOST OF THEIR POWER FROM RENEWABLE ENERGY, SO ELECTRICITY GENERATION ITS NO BIG DEAL, ITS ONLY THOSE IN POWER THAT MAKE IT SEEMS SO, IMAGINE A COUNTRY OF OVER 170 MILLION PEOPLE GENERATING A MEAGER 5000 WATS MAXIMUM AND YET WE EVEN FAIL TO MAINTAIN THE POWER PLANTS WITH MOST OF THEM FALLING INTO DISREPAIR AND NOW WE ARE CURRENTLY GENERATING 1000 MEGAWATS, WHEREAS MOST COUNTRIES IN AFRICA HAVE 24/7 ELECTRICITY!, IT IS SHAMEFULL.

please don't go near that of nuclear for Nigeria because it is not ripe or mature security wise for now. Just imagine how important documents could get missed in the senate house that the nuclear power plant would not be blown up by one aggrieved militant when built.

Wonderful !!!!!!! What a country.

Good one babe !!!

Good!! Just an observation though, Tall.....Taller...... Shortest.....

If d north wants another civil war they should know that they will have to fight alone because South West will disant itself from them this time around.