Great human inventions by country and chronological order

[sean]

I don't need to post anything.

The Internet itself, yes, this very thread is the result of an Englishman's genius.

Thanks Tim Berners-Lee.

[Daco Celtic]

All the best inventions are American

[Ülev]

Yeah!

[JamesBond007]

I don't need to post anything.

The Internet itself, yes, this very thread is the result of an Englishman's genius.

Thanks Tim Berners-Lee.

Actually, it is a bit more complicated than that. The internet existed before Tim Berners-Lee it was invented by the Americans at the ARPANET followed by the NFSNET it was used by scientists and enginers. What I mean by the internet existing before Tim's World Wide Web is things like email, usenet, gopher, IRC and the protocols the internet runs on, tcp/ip existed before his invention.

However, I think the American (probably of English descent) William Shockley invented the integrated circuit (the best known integrated circuit is the CPU) so if it wasn't for that then there would be no modern computers at all nor smartphones.

Beyond that, the list notes transistors in Austro-Hungary but it was really Wiliam Shockley an English American who invented the transistor. Also, it notes Blaise Pascal for the counting machine but neglects Charles Babbage and Alan Turing.

So the list is wrong at least in one place but I don't feel like looking it over again.

[coolfrenchguy]

fucking yankees and british who have stollen all the the french inventions by industrial spying,aside alan turing who broke the enigma machine code of course

The Micral N was the first commercially available microprocessor-based computer in 1973 and stollen by BULL with there fucking $$$$$$


first langage machine in 1725,by Basile Bouchon by the punched card

Basile Bouchon was a textile worker in the silk center in Lyon who invented a way to control a loom with a perforated paper tape in 1725.[1] The son of an organ maker, Bouchon partially automated the tedious setting up process of the drawloom in which an operator lifted the warp threads using cords.

This development is considered to be the first industrial application of a semi-automated machine.

The cords of the warp were passed through the eyes of horizontal needles arranged to slide in a box. These were either raised or not depending on whether there was not or was a hole in the tape at that point.[2] This was similar to the piano roll developed at the end of the 19th century and may have been inspired by the patterns that were traditionally drawn on squared paper.

Three years later, his assistant Jean-Baptiste Falcon expanded the number of cords that could be handled by arranging the holes in rows and using rectangular cards that were joined together in an endless loop.

Though this eliminated mistakes in the lifting of threads, it still needed an extra operator to control it and the first attempt at automation was made by Jacques Vaucanson in 1745. But it was not until 1805 that the wildly successful Jacquard mechanism was finally produced.

without the french : no modern micro-computers,no man in space ,no the apricity,no NASA/BELL/HP/THOMPSON/PHILIPS/no quantum fusion/BULL/ IBM /MICRO$OFT/APPLE/LENOVO/INTEL/AMD/SPACE-X/MOBILES etc..., no man on mars(hypotically),nothing,nada,niet! cappice!

it's not maybe the greatest on an the ethical field but :

Gunpowder was invented in 9th-century China and spread throughout most parts of Eurasia by the end of the 13th century.[3] Originally developed by the Taoists for medicinal purposes, gunpowder was first used for warfare about 904 AD

[Ymyyakhtakh]

However, I think the American (probably of English descent) William Shockley invented the integrated circuit (the best known integrated circuit is the CPU) so if it wasn't for that then there would be no modern computers at all nor smartphones.

Or if he didn't exist, other people would've developed his inventions a month later. Even though I think the black world had developed semiconductor technology earlier, but it was only released to the white world by groups like Shockley's group.

[coolfrenchguy]

I would guess the Scotsman, from Great Britain, James Watt because the industrial revolution was ushered in like right after that. I mean the first one as in really working -- that sense : smaller and more efficient.

it seems not only one but three:

Eugenio Barsanti was an Italian engineer, who together with Felice Matteucci of Florence invented the first version of the internal combustion engine in 1853
"Specification of Eugene Barsanti and Felix Matteucci, Obtaining Motive Power by the Explosion of Gasses"

Jean Joseph Étienne Lenoir also known as Jean J. Lenoir (12 January 1822 – 4 August 1900[1]) was a Belgian engineer who developed the internal combustion engine in 1858

Alphonse Eugène Beau de Rochas (9 April 1815, Digne-les-Bains, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence – 27 March 1893) was a French engineer who originated the principle of the four-stroke internal-combustion engine. His achievement lay partly in his emphasizing the previously unappreciated importance of compressing the fuel–air mixture before ignition

WIKI gave etienne lenoir as the first,but barsanti's was more efficient and were "stollen" by nikolas otto because he died before finish it an let his assistant dealing the patent with nikolas otto

it's seems like it's one of the first european invention and sound like a joke : "an italian,a belgian ,a french and a german are in a boat,the italian fall to water,guess who pushed him?"

honestly Barsanti was probably the first followed by Lenoir from the works of Beau Rochas or vice versa stollen and cope by Nikolas Otto later,but if you want there is no clear cut of who belongs the first patent

[frankhammer]

Almost all the inventions in the OP list were invented and reinvented in many places. Ultimately, only inventors from powerful economies get the credit, because only they are able to secure funds to make such inventions practical enough to be able to sell them.

For instance, a little know fact is that first plane to lift off by its own means was made by a Romanian in 1906. This was of course after Wright brothers plane, but unlike the latter it didn't require a catapult - the Romanian plane had a landing gear (Wright brothers' plane didn't).

A Romanian inventor also built the first helicopter able to take-off in 1922. Another Romanian installed an early version of a jet engine (a motorjet) in a plane in 1910. All of this Romanian pioneering work in aviation didn't matter, because Romanian inventors couldn't gather funds to make their inventions marketable.


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http://www.ctie.monash.edu.au/hargrave/pearse1.html

Man's First Powered Flight

Richard Pearse, Waitohi, New Zealand, March 31, 1902

Pearse was an enthusiast, and perhaps a turn of the century 'mad scientist' inventor. Certainly his other creations - mostly farm machinery - were far from the mainstream and thus [ also ] didn't get much credit. But he did get a few things right on his flying machine that were amazingly advanced for the time.

Accounts by witnesses of the flight vary, from "50 to 400 yards in length", but it seems most likely that it was around 350 yards long, and ending prematurely when the flying machine landed in a large hedge - 4 metres off the ground ! The aircraft was the first to use proper ailerons, instead of the inferior wing warping system that the Wright's used.

[Westbrook]

You and me both

Thank you Americans for the invention of A/C's. I could not be able to stand the heat of this country.

[renaissance12]

This is the first 4004 microprocessor really working..with F.F. marked in the circuit.. only F.F. no other letters..



F.federico F. faggin


But there are 3 poeple with the credit for this invention

Ted Hoff e Stanley Mazor , were not chip designer, .. but beans-counter of the company..




But the really designer was only one.. THE GUY WHO DESIGNED THE MICROPROCESSOR WITH F.F. Letter marked on it....


Faggin told many times that he was obbliged to mark F.F. letter on the first microprocessor ( 4004 - 8008 - 8080 ) in order to prove that ONLY him was the real inventor of the first commercial and working microprocessor..

He didnt trust INTEL at all...


The 4004, the world's first microprocessor, is signed with the initials F.F., for Federico Faggin, its designer. Signing the chip was a spontaneous gesture of proud authorship. It was also an original idea, imitated after him by others.
Federico Faggin signed the 4004 because: • He was the leader of the design/development project of the first microprocessor, and brought it to its successful conclusion.
Faggin did the detailed design work (logic design, circuit design, chip layout, tester design and test program development)