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they forgot the seatbelt
Yes, the 3-point lap and shoulder seatbelt by Nils Bohlin who sold it to Volvo in 1973. I'm actually surprised that it was not invented by the props department from Star Trek The Original Series, in 1966 since the Enterprise bridge crew were thrown out of their chairs more than 3 times during torpedo attacks. William Shatner "Could you provide the crew with some kind of a securing device, like a belt to prevent us from falling off our chairs?"
Nils Bohlin diden't invent the seatbelt, he found a way to make the old seatbelt version alot better.
Monkey wrench is the Swedish invention. And Swedish a company (SAAB) developed the turbo so it could be used in normal cars and not only in trucks.
Volvo had the 3 way seatbelt in all cars from 1959 actually. They didnt patent it so others could use it and save lives. 🙂
And ball bearings
Other Swedish inventions you might know about but didn't know were Swedish includes: three-phase electric power (debatable who invented it first), rechargeable batteries, spherical ball bearings, laminate flooring, styrofoam, plastic shopping bags, adjustable wrenches, pipe wrenches, hose clamps, bolt cutters, three-point seat belts, air guns, screw propellers (disputed) and subsequently the first propeller-driven ship (also disputed), Spotify and oat milk.
Also the Turret(?), the rotating gun on ships and tanks.
Buut, while John Ericsson was Swedish, he was living in the USA when inventing the turret and the propeller, not sure if he had American citicenship though
@@matshjalmarsson3008 Didn't know that one. Thank you for sharing that with me.
@@ryttyr14 Also, like with the Lightbulb, the Zipper, and the Telephone, it's not so clear cut who actually invented the Propeller. Similar propelling items appeard long before Ericssons "invention".
One comes up with an idea, another makes it work, a third perfects it. Who invented it? Usually one who has the same nationality as you. ;)
Skype was founded in 2003 by Niklas Zennström, from Sweden, and Janus Friis, from Denmark.[18] The Skype software was created by Estonians Ahti Heinla, Priit Kasesalu, Jaan Tallinn, and Toivo Annus.[19] Friis and Annus are credited with the idea of reducing the cost of voice calls by using a P2P protocol like that of Kazaa.[20]
Bluetooth was invented by a Dutch man, working for Ericsson, so not a Swedish invention
Swedish inventions :
Blow tourch - Carl Richard Nyberg
Tetra pak - Ruben Rausing
Kerosene stoves (Primus) - Frans Wilhelm Lindqvist
Steam Turbine - Gustaf De Laval
The milk separator - Gustaf de Laval
Inkjet and Ultrasound - Helmuth Hertz
Artificial Kidney - Nils Alwall
Dry Milk - Ninni Kronberg
The Celsius temperature scale also comes from a Swedish man named Anders Celsius.
The first central bank in the world was Swedish, Founded 1668.
Zipper - Gideon Sundbäck
Propeller - John Ericsson
Adjustable wrench - Johan Petter Johansson
Pacemaker - Rune Elmqvist
Gauge blocks - Carl Edvard Johansson
Vacuum cleaner
In 1942, the Swedish paper company Paulistr invented the first disposable diapers.
Ball bearing
AGA-lighthouse
Bluetooth
Mobile phones
Color graphics on computers
Safety matches
GPS
Classification of all plants & animals - Carl Linné
The dynamite - Alfred Nobel
Padlocks
Spotify
Skype
Kick sled
Laminate flooring
Wall bars - Teacher Per Henrik Ling
Ring binder
Dishcloth - Curt Lindqvist
Sincerely Tom.
Minecraft 💅🏼
Refrigerator
Natives from both Americas: where are we? 😂😂😂 Except for Mayans and Incas
@@ScrakSFMs Nope. The earliest kicksleds date to the 1850s and were first made the north or Norrland area of Sweden. The runners extend toward the back for stability, and two vertical supports hold a handlebar.
@@ScrakSFMs Where did the kick sled come from?
Kicksled - Wikipedia
The first definite record of a kicksled was in a newspaper in northern Sweden around 1870. The kicksleds of that era had stiff wooden runners and were heavy. Bonkers or what dude.
Tetra is like every milk and juice package made of paper you buy in the world…even in the USA.
The name Tetra pak comes from the original tetrahedron shaped container they invented.
@@Stefan-I still remember the old packaging and that it was really hard for a little kid to pour from.
@@Hiznogood I only remember the tetrahedron shaped juice container that you drank from with a straw as a 70´s kid here in Sweden, the brand Festis used those. For milk i just remember the rectangle ones but i also remember we then had 1 and 2 litre milk cartons now the largest i have seen is the 1.5 litre and it now usually has a screw on cork so thats an improvement.
yea still remember the cream , You had a plastic holder with a handle for easy use lol.. damn i feel old lmao
No - Tetrapac has only invented the triangle pack. What we today call milk cartons or juice cartons is a Norwegian invention and the patent and production are owned by Elopac. Tetra-paK makes these under license and lost all rights to call these a Tetrapac products in 2018 through a settlement in court.
Not sure if I should call it an invention, but my favorite thing that comes from Sweden is Spotify.
The company that struck a shady deal with the huge music labels, and has raped individual music artists of their due and proper royalties for years, making billions, while posing in front of government entities filled with clueless elderly people, going "But we'w just a widdle Intewnet Cowmpany!"
Congratulations, asshole. You ruined everything.
Håkan Lans is freaking awesome! He ALSO invented TCAS collision avoidance system for airliners that is now mandatory on all commercial planes. The system is based on GPS and direct pilots to do evasive maneuvers when a collision is imminent by a display and audible alerts to turn away from each other or to climb/decend away from each other. Great tech!
Maybe a bit too techy, but a GPS Satelite actually cant determine your position. The device that determines the position is your gps device (smartphone for example). It receives data from Satelites where the satelites know their position. The phone can then calculate its own position because it knows where the other satelites are and how far they are away.
It's almost correct, it needs many satellites to get accurate data, and no, the satellites can determine your location as well, they can speak to each other as well.
This is how you can track someone's GPS coordinates... Still the more satellites the better. 1 Satellite only knows your location to within a giant circle, where your distance from the point below orbit is the Radius of. With 2 Satellites, your distance from both of their pbo which does a pretty decent job of pinpointing you assuming you're equidistant from them otherwise they just narrow your position down by a lot. And with 3 satellites one can pretty much within 100 feet accurately pinpoint you. And if it's for dropping a missile on your head, that's accurate enough.
@@livedandletdie Uhhhh no thats wrong. GPS Satelites dont even know your device exists. They have no idea. GPS is broadcast only. They never receive a single bit from your gps device and you cant track someone elses GPS device that way. Additionally GPS Satelites certainly do not communicate with each other. They can not track you because they dont even know you exist. A smartphone or whatever has not even nearly enough power so send signals into space... Idk why youre making things up, but you should really stop. Most of the time you locate other people by delpoying your own gps tracker on the target. The gps device then calculates its position and sends the positioning information via the internet... another very common tactic to track someone is so see what cellular station their phone is connected to. This way you know the person has to be in a radius of x kilometers of the tower. But you can not track someone if you have control over a gps satelite. Its literally physically impossible because your phone or whatever has not the strength so send data to the satelite.
Fun fact about Anders Celsius temperatur scale. It was switched around so 100 was freezing and 0 was boiling. It was the Swedish scientist Carl Linnaeus that changed it to what it is today.
Carl von Linné in Swedish (kind of, I'd say ”von” looks German to me and ”Linné” … French?)… I wonder why he has a completely different name in English… 😁
@@johnnyrosenberg9522 the diffrens is that Linnaeus is latinized. Most of his writings was in Latin and he names being rendard into Latin was Carolus Linnaeus. The von is ussaly used for nobility in sweden and Carl von Linné was ennobeled.
@@ThomasVanhala Was the ending -é just a common shortening of -aeus in names? Like "Lind" -> "Linnaeus" -> "Linné", or was his name always Linné?
@@stekeln when Linné was born people did not have surnames but patronymic so his fathers name was Nils Ingmarsson he was the son of Ingmar. But Nils change his name when he started to study to become a priest and it was common to take a new fancy latin sounding name and he picked the name Linnaeus. He got it from a big Tilia/Linden tree or Lind in Swedish. Carl Linnaeus then change his name when he was ennobled. Usually when you got knighted or ennobled you change you name to a unique noble family name like Nils Haal change his name to Gyllenhaal when he got ennobled in 1652.
@@ThomasVanhala "Linnaeus" itself is supposedly a borrowing of the Swedish word "Lind" so where did Nils get the idea from?
Thank you!! When I was visiting the US, I was trying to make that exact argument. My US friends were all like you just prefer Celsius because you are used to it, and I was like, nooooooooo nonononono no, it's just better in any way.
Tetra Pak is used by ice block makers around Australia. You freeze them, then tear off one sealed edge, and press slightly. The frozen treat pops up and when you release your grip, it falls back inside the Tetrahedron, until you’re ready to eat it again. You can also drink the melted part instead of chasing it all over your fingers and hands.
Ahhh. The good old "jubbly"
It's not the shape of the milk carton, it's how it's made with different layers. We're also the inventors of the propeller, the wrench and ultrasound. Just to add some important stuff to the mix xD
To be fair Håkan Lans did not invent GPS as in the American positioning system but a technology to track maritime vessels using satellites and this was in 1992. The American Global Positioning System was invented long before that as the first launch was in 1978.
Håkan Lans invented a Global Positioning System for maritime traffic, not the Global Positioning System we all think of.
Also the claims about him inventing the mouse and color graphics are highly contended. He has a number of lawsuits in the US about it (or at least had, don't know the current status on that).
Na he did, the us stole it as they tend to do with stuff that have military aplications. @@andreaszetterstrom7418
Most likely there are a whole chain of inventiors on those concepts, as fas as i know, but Lans did improve a primitive encoder tool for digitalizing X and Y coordinates for map tracing into a more useful form. So, both yes and no, i would set him somewhere in the beginning but not as the very first inventor of the concept, if one mean tools for tracking digital coordinate positions. As i remember he did apply this mattematics to the GPS system, but i would honestly not say he did invent the entire system as we know it today, it was more about the practical usefulness for certain applications.
Another life-saving invention by a Swede is the stent.
I also like that the adjustable wrench is a Swedish invention. It must have been hard to live at a time when you needed to have several in different sizes
But we only invented the metric adjustable wrench. The imperial version is from USA.
@@arneanka4633 What are you talking about? There is no unit of measure on them, you manually set it to the size you need.
@@TheXmabax The most annoying thing is actually that guy from USA who claimed they invented the imperial adjustable wrench. Yes, that actually happened but either he's stupid or a victim of a poor school system. Facebook spits out the most stupid things.
While the adjustable wrench can be good to have its not something you really use while working on cars for example and many other things, there you usually have several wrenches in different sizes and different size sockets for socket wrenches.
@@Stefan-You want ring or u spanner with bolt and nuts that is torqued very hard or when there very little room to access the bolt. I used to work in a power plant and had a adjustable wrench in my leg pocket if I needed to seal a valve gasket and as it has a scale on it I could see what ring spanner I needed to get if the wrench wouldn’t work.
Didn't know the zipper was a Swedish invention, but I'm glad it made the list, because I think it's a great invention which is often overlooked.
Hey Ryan, has anyone ever told you that you have the most lovely, comforting voice? It's almost midnight and I was struggling to stay awake as I watched this (but not because it was boring - it isn't!), and every time I came back in there was your voice, to reassure me...!
The automated lighthouse/buoy was invented by Swedish inventor and industrialist Gustaf Dalén. (And BTW, my surname ends with -qvist. Swedish surnames are really a subject of its own.)
Long Å ≈ "o" in "born" or "thorns", short Å ≈ "o" in "pot" or "got". Long "Ä ≈ "ea" in "bear" or "ai" in "air", short "ä" ≈ "e" in "net" or "ea" in "sweat". Long "Ö" ≈ "o" in "word" or "i" in "whirl" and short "Ö" is the same but shorter. (I think at least, helpful corrections are welcome!) Short vowels are mostly used before double consonants or in the end of the word. These things are true for Swedish, IDK if it's the same in Norwegian and Danish but i think so. Also: Ä = Æ, Ö = Ø.
I have to mention C.E. Johansson. Invented the "precision measuring toolbox" A forgotten invention that made the industrial revolution so much easier, faster, and precise. During WW2 these "kits" were more precious than diamonds. With this toolbox, any measurement between 1 millimeter to 201 millimeter with a precision of 0.01 millimeter is possible!
The headset for mobile phones are also using the same principle, just as headsets for your computer, with a boom mic...
His company Ericsson, also invented Bluetooth...
Yeah the seatbelt by SKF/Volvo and then the roller seatbelt by SAAB. The one that locks by tension.
Zipper, Celcius, Dynamite, Spotify, MineCraft, Adjustable Wrench, Rune Stones. We have a few inventions under our belt. About Ericsson? Remember Monitor?
The interesting thing is that Sweden has roughly 10 milion inhabitants, yet stand behind many of the things we take for granted and make our daily lives better. Sweden is also the country that has the most Nobel prizes per capita. If that's becasue we have so many brilliant people or homecourt advanatage, is up for debate. But it's still something to ponder about, that a small country has not just so many inovations, but also creators in music, movies and more.
As a swede. I think it is a mix. Home court advantage to a degree and many smart people through history.
Only time will tell if that continues.
Nobel, pronounced “ No…bell “
Tetra pak invented the way to package liquid in paper by applying wax on the inside and then seal the package, later on replacing wax with plastic. But any paper based container you see at the store is based on this invention.
I am swedish and even I didn't know these thing, that's pretty impressive.
The three point seat belt that Volvo invented is my favourite. So they came up with this revolutionary safety invention that was easy to use and instead of patenting it and using it as a selling point they said "we want fewer people dead so here you are everyone, use this and save lives".
Good thing it wasn't a 'murican company because that would NOT have happened if it was.
fun fact dynamite was developed in Geesthacht Germany
developed by the Swede Alfred Nobel.
Concerning GPS: The satellite doesn't pinpoint your position at all, the traffic actually goes the other way. The GPS device reads the signal of several geostationary satellites (usually five or more) and then triangulates your position from their signals.
You can see where good people live by the number of inventions the made.
4:52 born and raised before GPS was readily available in consumer products.
Many times gad to vind my way by remembering landmarks. Tricky in the dark
Your pronunciation of Emlqvist was ON POINT
They did not mention all the the swedish inventions, other are also the plastic bag, the refrigerator, the three point seat belt, nicotine gum only to mention just a few more
Do ure homework pls
n 1913, American Fred W. Wolf invented the first home electric refrigerator, which featured a refrigeration unit on top of an icebox. Mass production of domestic refrigerators began in 1918 when William C. Durant introduced the first home refrigerator with a self-contained compressor
When you go to mcdonald, starbucks etc. Its all tetra pak. You can find that logo almost every package nowdays. Finland has company that makes those plastic covers for starbucks etc. (Btw you should watch video i send you about why nordics are so rich. It has a lot to do why we have so many inventors. Hint: we have safe nets for failing. Free healtcare etc)
Ryan, those quart sized heavy whipping cream cartons are TetraPak.
The package "Milk carton" that Erik Wallenberg invented isn't a pyramid but instead a tetrahedron. Think of it as a cylinder to begin with an then you seal one end and turns the tool 90 deg before you seal the other end. Well, simplified you might see it as a three-sided pyramid though.
My favourite Swedish invention is that one potato salad I bought at least a decade ago at either Konsum or ICA. Forgot the brand, though. :(
Also, Åke Senning invented many things for hospital use, like open heart surgery, heart lung machine and many other things concerning the heart. He also performed the first kidney and heart transplants ever.
Other swedish inventions (not already listed by others below): Bow saws. Diesel electric powertrains. Vodka. The Gamma laser knife for brain surgery.
The GPS satellites don't know where you are, they each send out a signal which your device uses to determine your location based on delay & time & techy stuff I can't remember.
i think you pronounced very nicely Elmqvist! I would love to see video where you react to some finland stuff and would give american point of view. Maybe cultural stuff, not inventions. Or both if you have time!
Tetra Pak is a paper that holds liquid at a very low cost, think today how much you buy that are packages made of it.
The packages themselves can look different, but their first ones were triangular, but now they are mostly square.
before gps, i could pin point were i was on a map. and i did not drive down in a river, because the gps told to turn right.
qvist (or quist in the US) is how the word kvist was spelled back in the days, it means twig (branch).
Mr Lantz invented the computer mouse, color computer graphics and gps. Not too shabby!
The British was using radios for GPS 40 years before GPS 😉
So why didn't they invent it?
Sadly, the computer mouse wasn't invented by Lans, it was invented by Doug Engelbart.
The gps satellites have no idea where you are, it works the other way around. They basically just send extremely precise timestamps along with their own location. Your phone can figure out where you are by comparing the signals from multiple gps satellites and triangulating its own position.
The satellite doesn’t know where you are. Your gps knows where it is because it calculates its position with the signals of at least three gps satellites.
The original temperature scale that Anders Celsius invented was the inverted version of the modern Celcius scale. The way Anders Celsius used the unnamed scale he invented was 100 for the freezing point of water and 0 for the boiling water. Anders Celsius died in 1744 and the modern scale was renamed after Anders Celcius in 1948 to honor him a bit over 200 years later.
The Celcius temperature scale was originally called centigrade scale outside Sweden and as a result, some people still read it as "15 degrees centigrade" instead of "15 degrees Celcius".
You also have the lucas machine (cpr machine)
And a BUNCH of other cool stuff.
And some other not so cool like the kick slead :-p
Also the milkseparator and AGA lighthouses
Ryan i love your show! So great
1:01 dynamite revolutionized mining.
It missed a few other big ones:
The Boat propeller
The adjustable Wrench tool.
The ball bearing.
Bluetooth.
Rechargeable batteries.
3-phase power system.
The Tape measure (the one going into a drum and rolled out steel tape). The Ultrasound used in medicine .
The first Bolt Cutter.
The first household refrigerator (Absorption) Electrolux
Three-point seatbelt.
In 1913, American Fred W. Wolf invented the first home electric refrigerator, which featured a refrigeration unit on top of an icebox. Mass production of domestic refrigerators began in 1918 when William C. Durant introduced the first home refrigerator with a self-contained compressor
Elmqvist is not a typo. In fact all names ending with quist kvist or qvist are of Nordic origin, Swedish Norwegian or Danish and wouldn’t exist in English at all if not for immigrants to America in the 1800s. There are now more than 5 million Americans of Swedish decent.
Afternoon Ryan 😊
Two anesthesia remedies where invented by Swedish people as well. The green button that you use to call people with on your cell phone is a swedish female invention as well as liquor made from potatoes also a female Swedish inventor.
The gps need at last 2 satellites to pinpoint your position
They invented so much because they lived before TV 🙃🤭
I’m sorry but the mouse was invented by Doug Engelbart in the 60’s, and was demonstrated the first time in 1968.
He was an engineer at the Stanford Research Institute.
And not a mention of ABBA or Ikea wowwwwww😂
ABBA was great but I don't think you can cattegorise them as an invention. 😁🇸🇪
thats what I thought too but they invented DIY furniture so kinda@@dennistofvesson6351
Winter in Sweden was very boring and mostly always indoor. They had to do something to pass time like naked sauna and invent things.
Spotify and Skype are also Swedish inventions!
Tetrapac has only invented the triangle pack. What we today call milk cartons or juice cartons is a Norwegian invention and the patent and production are owned by Elopac. Tetra-paK makes these under license and lost all rights to call these its products in 2018 through a settlement in court
that pyramid tetra pak is long gone.
Not at all. They shrunk and are only used for coffee cream. That's not gone as in disappeared totally.
Volvo invented the three point seat belt but typical Swedish, they didn't greed the shit but instead gave the world the invention to use to save Lifes ❤️
I was going to mention many other inventions from Sweden, but I just gave some thumbs up to the nerds below me in the comments section instead
Dude… a twelve year old from Sweden could teach you a Lot
Steve Jobs? He was a Brilliant Stoner
I feel like a lot of commenters here need to research what an invention is. An invention does not have to be a completely new product. An adaption of an existing product, like creating an implantable version of the pacemaker, building upon and using existing technology , is also recognized as an invention.
Håkan Las did not invent GPS or the computer mouse. There was a lot of computer mouses invened at the same time. He did though invent VGA- graphic.
Nice video, btw you look pretty Swedish, have you checked you ancesters? Maybe a bit of Viking blood in you.
And what about the wrench and ball bearings....
4:49 Actually, I think you need 3 satellites to help your device to get an accurate position and it’s not the satellites that keep track on you, it’s your device.
Bloke called Nobel. Please it’s normally pronounced “No Bell”. As in another explosive Nobels 808
Linnaeus’ binomial system is more important than most of these.
There's so much Swedish inventions that most people have no clue about. Sweden in general is quite the powerhouse for innovation.
We can thank the free school system that started early. And 6 months of darkness.
4:36 The computer mouse was invented by Doug Engelbart, and he was definitely not Swedish.
Kind of surprising to not mention Bluetooth (blåtand). I would say that three point seat belt and different timpe of wrenches would at least make the list.
And most paper based packaging for liquids in America are made in the Swedish town of Gävle. Superior quality.
Smoke free gunpowder was also invented by Nobel
We learnt about different inventions and whom invented them in school, the Scottish invented a lot of things, if my memory is correct. Been a long time since school 😁
I am certain there's one word you've seen before that has a Q without a U following it: Qantas.
How about Qatar?
Qantas is an acronym: ) But you know that.
There are a few common spellings of Swedish last names ending with "qvist". It can be qvist, quist and I think even kvist (which is Swedish for ”twig”, by the way). I'd guess the ones with a q are older spellings, since we don't use the letter q in Swedish any more.
of course we can use q, i would if i had a name with a k.
@@lovisalindstrom7920 Yes, in names. I meant there are no Swedish words with a q in them, except maybe some very old words that nobody uses these days.
Personally I would always pick k over q in a name, but that doesn't have anything to do with … well, anything.
The qu spelling is older. It's in principle the same as in English 'queen' and in Latin 'Quintus' etc. Originally the pronunciation was also the same [kw]. You still have the old pronunciation in a few places in Bohuslän, Västergötland and Dalarna, although it doesn't exist in rikssvenska anymore.
There are words in Swedish spelled with q that are used a lot, such as quorn, queer, quiz, queer, niqab, squash etc
But they are loanwords. A long time ago 'kvinna' was both spelled and pronounced 'quinna', with the 'qu' sounding like in 'queen'.
5:00 Well technically the gps satellite doesn't pinpoint you. You pinpoint yourself: If your phone can receive signals from a few of those satellites it can take the time-stamped signals and triangulate where it is on earth. So in short, it's the other way around.
If I'm right it was a swedish man Junger who invented the first capable recargeable battery, and that he could not go against Edison.....to expensive....😢
GPPS needs three satellites to point you out.😉
Hey, I like your reaction :) you can also check videos regarding Polish invention, you would be suprise also.
No Ryan, a satellite can't pinpoint your location... It gets your signal, and all it knows is that you're somewhere in a perfect sphere around it, equal to the distance between you and the satellite.
With some clever math however, one can basically with that one satellite get your general vicinity. By knowing it's distance from the planet, at all times, and hence it's distance from the center of the earth, and thus the radius of the earth... it can tell that you are on Earth somewhere on it's surface, in a circle of some distance away from it's center, basically within 100km...
And with the use of more satellites... one can get more accurate readings. With 3 Satellites one can basically pinpoint you to within 10 meters. Thanks to Trigonometry. And with each additional satellite you can pinpoint someone more accurately.
As a swed there was thing i did not know about
Us Swedes are all about the safety thing.
GPS satelites is not orbiting around the earth they are stationary.
The vacuum cleaner is also a Swedish invention.
1901- Hubert Cecil Booth invents the first successful vacuum cleaner. 1907-James Murray Spangler invents the first domestic single-operator upright vacuum cleaner. 1908 -William Henry Hoover produces the first commercial bag-on-a-stick upright vacuum cleaners. 1912 -First Hoovers imported to Britain.
TetraPak: the first "models" were tetrahedons, which is like a pyramid on a triangular base. Later they switched to the simpler rectangle form, which is simpler to pack together.
4:10 ... and Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit was a German physicist and inventor, born in Gdansk/Danzig in 1686 and died in Den Haag in 1736. He invented also a hydrometer, a pycnometer and a hypsobarometer (for measuring the altitude). 😁
7:30 The Zipper is also claimed by Switzerland. Swiss producer Martin Winterhalter bought in 1925 a precursor U.S. patent, improved the construction and started production.
The next in the "invention series" would be Switzerland: th-cam.com/video/7mghXCLL7bc/w-d-xo.html (English subtitles available). Missing inventions according to comments:
- The conche to produce chocolate, invented by Swiss chocolateur Rudolf Lindt in 1879, after the invention of the Mélangeur by Swiss chocolateur Philippe Suchard in 1826.
- LCD Displays
- Turbocharger (first patented in 1905 by Alfred Büchi, working for Sulzer AG; first commercial application in 1925 by Alfred Büchi)
- Kocher pincer (surgical tool)
- ...
You pronounced Elmqvist correctly but not his first name :-)
Ball bearings are and a lot of others are not on the list. I feel he did not pick the 10 top ones from Sweden.
Swedish inventions :
Blow tourch - Carl Richard Nyberg
Tetra pak - Ruben Rausing
Kerosene stoves (Primus) - Frans Wilhelm Lindqvist
Steam Turbine - Gustaf De Laval
The milk separator - Gustaf de Laval
Inkjet and Ultrasound - Helmuth Hertz
Artificial Kidney - Nils Alwall
Dry Milk - Ninni Kronberg
The Celsius temperature scale also comes from a Swedish man named Anders Celsius.
The first central bank in the world was Swedish, Founded 1668.
Zipper - Gideon Sundbäck
Propeller - John Ericsson
Adjustable wrench - Johan Petter Johansson
Pacemaker - Rune Elmqvist
Gauge blocks - Carl Edvard Johansson
Vacuum cleaner
In 1942, the Swedish paper company Paulistr invented the first disposable diapers.
Ball bearing
AGA-lighthouse
Bluetooth
Mobile phones
Color graphics on computers
Safety matches
GPS
Classification of all plants & animals - Carl Linné
The dynamite - Alfred Nobel
Padlocks
Spotify
Skype
Kick sled
Laminate flooring
Wall bars - Teacher Per Henrik Ling
Ring binder
Dishcloth - Curt Lindqvist
Sincerely Tom.
when he sold the tetra pak , it was not water prooff. he had something like 2 years to make it water proof. i think he eneded with wax in the inside. i might be wrong about the wax
No your correct about the wax. That was the first solution.
Haha sorry for spoiling the first one, I was submitting 2 videos about kind of the same subject but mixed up my message! Well, now you know!
But a fun fact, Swedes also invented the modern three-point Seatbelt (Volvo) and we invented the Turbo (SAAB) 😎
@@andreohrvall Fellow Swede here, and no Saab did not invent the Turbo, it was invented by Alfred Büchi, a Swiss engineer in 1905.
Saab however was the first commercial family car with a low-pressure turbo with a refined boost pressure regulation via the so-called waste-gate valve this makes the use of a turbo safer and it have a lesser chance of being destroyed if the driver messes up.
General education in the US is frighteningly low
So, this Swedish inventor didn't *invent* GPS, but rather he *used* it ... long time after the USA had developed and deployed it.
Right. He used GPS that the world can thank America for actually inventing.
Indeed they did, Håkan Lans invented a Global Positioning System, not the Global Positioning System. The system Håkan Lans invented was for maritime traffic and it was back in 1992 many years after the first launch of the first GPS satellite (1978).
As a Swede this annoys me everytime, Håkan Lans invention was and still is great for maritime traffic but it's not the Global Positioning System we're all custom to use.
@@gonace I don't doubt that he invented a system that "is great for maritime traffic" - but it's not GPS. It is another invention, with a different purpose and a different function.
Who the hell could not know about dynamite? Or Celsius? BTW: The USA stole Håkan's navigation system for aircraft...by using extortion...he never got a penny.... yupp!
A bunch of big ones are missing. We're one of the biggest inventors.
Sweden RULES! And that's a fact!