American culture is world culture because American ancestors come from every corner of the world (including native Americans). I think that’s one of the reasons we have been so creative and innovative is the merging and sharing of cultures and inspirations. You can get the best out of people when you work hard and encourage each other.
The United States and Germany probably have the top engineers. I can't say for sure about scientists. Scientists discover new things. Engineers figure out how to make those things useful. Einstein discovered properties of the universe. Engineers figured out how to use them.
a little girl, present that day at Kitty Hawk when the Wright Bros made their first flight, later was at Cape Canaveral for the Launch of Apollo 11 flight to the moon - in one lifetime she witnessed both events
I can't remember where I read or heard it from. That little girl at the time not only seen the first flight but the only time the Wright Brothers flew together. One of their parents asked them not to fly together in case the worst happened.
Can definitely understand their parents reasoning for them not to fly together given the extremely high risk of death should anything go wrong as they really didn’t have any way to protect themselves should they crash.
To see a young German man like yourself so excited about the good parts of America is so heartwarming and uplifting Thank you so much! Peace and blessings to you. The world needs a couple billion more people just like you, a German.
Assembly lines have been around for many years before Ford. Ford developed the first MOVING assembly line. Instead of the workers moving to the work to be assembled, the piece moved to the worker. That was the key difference.
Also Ford didn't invent the automobile. Ford took a simple idea, added an improved assembly line, and even paid workers enough to where they could buy a Ford car. In so doing, they invented the first inexpensive and mass-produced car. Henry Ford became the country's second official billionaire.
And each person did just ONE job, over and over. Ford also paid very well, but truly wanted all immigrant workers to become American. He offered free language classes, but also sent out social workers to see that employees were staying healthy (and sober).
Samuel Colt was one of the first to implement interchangeable parts and an assembly-line back in the 1850s. (Colt's Patent Fire Arms Manufacturing Company)
I would think the microchip would have made this list, but 'top 10' inventions from the land of inventions would be subjective out of necessity I suppose.
@@amicooke1790A Finnish guy invented the cell phone. Motorola is (or was?) a Finnish company. However he was inspired by Star Trek, an American TV show.
@@knighthawk3749 Nope. Motorola beat Nokia on both two-way radios, AND mobile phones. Motorola first introduced the portable telephone for sale in 1983. Nokia's first mobile phone wasn't offered until 1985.
Some friends were restoring a house in Nebraska that was built in 1909. They found Edison lightbulbs in the light fixtures on the ceilings and walls that were still working, about 55 years after Edison's company had stopped manufacturing them.
That fact, that we went from getting a man into the air with controlled flight to flying to anyplace on the planet to landing on another planet(moon) in the space of a lifetime, that’s truly amazing.
Benjamin Franklin invented the lightning rod in 1746. Bifocals lenses which he called double spectacles, swimming fins, the Franklin stove to heat up spaces. The harmonica consisting of crystal cups which play music. In Philadelphia he ran the first post office, created the first Fire Brigade and the first lending library.
I came to the comments to see if anyone was claiming Berners-Lee invented the internet. I'ts good to see others know there is a difference between the internet and the WWW.
Technically it was before the Internet. DARPANET was the predecessor of the Internet, and was where e-mail started, but it wasn't the Internet yet when Compuserve, The Source, and the amateur Fidonet network of BBSs (Bulletin Board Systems) had e-mail, but there was no formal autmatic link between these four e-mail islands as it were.
Jacked-in means Online. Back then the only way to use the internet was with a dialup (56K Modem). Jacked-in was used to describe connecting through a phone jack.
Americans couldn't do it without immigrants and those in other countries who came up with inventions that helped our inventors. No one lives in a bubble, no man is an island, many of those inventors were the children of immigrants or immigrants themselves.
Edison was a master at promotion and coordinating research. A lot of his ideas were not his but ones he promoted, sponsored research into, (or maybe stole). But he was the best at marketing the new technologies and hiring other inventors to keep ahead in the industry.
An African American Frederick McKinley Jones invented portable refrigeration, which was instrumental in winning WW2 as we had a way to cool blood products to keep soldiers alive. This was definitely a revolutionary invention!!
The first artificial refrigeration device was invented by William Cullen in 1755, than Oliver Evans in 1805, then Michael Faraday in 1820, followed by another half dozen inventors. The African American inventor Frederick McKinley was late to the party with his 1938 truck refrigerator.
Karl and Bertha Benz pioneered the automobile while R.E. Olds and Henry Ford provided it to the masses. Also, the internet came from DARPA while the World Wide Web was developed by Sir Timothy Berbers-Lee at CERN.
Hey, Charles B. Jeffrey of bicycle fame, was also a mass producer of Automobiles, in the early days. The Jeffrey Rambler, was the #2 seller, behind Oldsmobile, in 1902-03, before Ford got his stuff together. In 1916, Jeffrey created the 1st all wheel drive truck, and sold thousands to the Military, where they served in WW I. In 1918 the company was sold to Charles Nash, fresh from the presidency of General Motors. He sold Jeffrey's for a year or so before introducing the Nash that he designed. In 1950, Nash Motors introduced the first modern,successful, Compact car, and called it the Rambler.
An American inventor, Hedy Lamarr was a top actress during Hollywood's golden era and originally from Austria. She is less well known as a brilliant inventor. One of her inventions, with composer George Antheil, was a forerunner to today's WiFi, Bluetooth, and GPS technologies, and has led many to dub Lamarr the mother of WiFi.
A really important invention that was overlooked is the TRANSISTOR. It replaced the vacuum tube and made microcomputers possible. A fun story. My late husband was a planetary scientist who got his PhD from CalTech in the late 1970"s. While a student, he rented an apartment from a little old lady who was totally unimpressed by CalTech and NASA. "Young man", she said, "I remember when the Wright brothers first flew their plane, in 1903!"
the first airplane is always a controversial topic, there were a lot of people trying to be first, and a lot of prototypes being tested. And arguably, there were others with powered flight that took off first. However, the Wright bros, were the first to have powered flight and controlled flight. They were the first to figure out the lift AND the steering.
That is why they are significant. The others who developed different forms of “flight” never created something that changed the world, like the Wright brothers did
All boils down to the "warped wing" system. The Wrights discovered that by building a wing and tail rudder that could be twisted slightly, they could control and redirect airflow over said components.
They spent years doing wind tunnel testing to understand the air flowing across and around the different parts of the plane, and their single control stick that turned the plane right by moving the stick to the right, and pulling back was to go up, was something no one else had.
The thing to keep in mind is, the reason America did a lot of this stuff is because the Founders setup a country that allowed people from around the world could come here and invent! You notice a lot of the inventors were came from various other countries... that's the beauty of the US.
@@frankworthen1065 To a degree. I often feel like Americans say "march to the beat of your own drum" and then when you do they sneer at you. Just my opine as a citizen. Except the Bay Area. When I lived there all rules were suspended and the wierdos ruled. I loved it.
There were a number of inventors working on making a lightbulb. But most were expensive or would burn out in minutes to hours and were impractical. Thomas made a bulb that would last years.
An often overlooked US invention... The standardized shipping container. The ones you see stacked up on massive cargo ships. For practical electricity production and distribution, that was Edison and Tesla. They had different ideas on how to do it, and were competitors. Tesla won the "current wars" with his AC system. Tesla also invented the electric induction motor, which is basically in everything that needs to move and uses electrical power. Tesla was a very interesting character... His ideas were way ahead of their time in many ways.
I watched a documentary about those early shipping containers and the guy who invented them. I don't recall the details, but it did mention how much less expensive it became to load a ship, it was multiples higher before those containers.
Because like many things in the video, it wasn't a US thing, perhaps? Some things are debatable, and so is the world. Who was the first to invent, who patented, etc.?
The story of the invention of the airplane is an "American Dream" success story. Brothers Orville and Wilbur Wright had little or no scientific training. Mechanically talented, they built and repaired bicycles to earn a modest living. They consulted libraries for the latest research and soon understood the problems of heavier-than-air powered flight better than the perceived experts. In just four years they built several unpowered gliders and then what is believed to have been the first airplane.
@@reindeer7752 Pasteur was just the beginning from France. Most of today’s vaccines are produced and developed in America. There is no other source of vaccines in the world.
The printing press is in my opinion the single greatest invention of all time . Making information available to more people & putting knowledge into the correct mind that could put it to use .
Well....Germany invented the first practical automobile. So there is that. There are some dramatic movies about the history of Benz (and his wife) and the race that changed transportation that are very good entertainment.
lasers, tv, air conditioner, harness nuclear energy, EVs, military submarine, drilling rigs, refrigerator, drones, video game console, cyclotron (cancer research)
Fun fact: The first thing ever sold on the internet was weed lol. College students working on the internet sold some to another group doing the same thing at a different school.
Or how about CompuSeve? A precursor to AOL was MacLink which later turned into AOL. Just saw recently, the demolition of the AOL headquarters building in Virginia to make way for something else.
The early days of the consumer-accessible internet were "dirt road" as f***. BBS, Usenet, and Gopher were absolute clusterf***s until devs started to make user interfaces to serve as a sort of digital sherpa.
It's fascinating how many commonplace inventions have their origins in the US military. Among them are GPS, the Internet, and electronic computers in general.
Glad you had the opportunity to see it! People seem to forget that Dayton was also the birthplace of pull tabs, ice trays, the electric self-starter, the cash register, AND the Boolean search engine. Dayton did an awful lot of dirty work for the world in the early to mid 20th century.
It's noteworthy that the origin of the Internet was an intranet for the US nation security system for the Defense Department. They could have quick communication in the military nuclear system. It then became the Internet It was fortunate that there was no patent possible because government scientists created it, so public domain and so free.
When I lived in Europe, Europeans told me they invented certain things that I had been taught were American. I have come to realize that America had the ability to market these things while many countries contributed their inventive abilities. It opened my eyes to how we all learn from each other.
Wow, you're the first European reactor I've seen that understands the reason so many things are invented/created here in America. We let the free thinkers.....think. And we pay them well to think up new things. And then we hire young free thinkers and we pay them to think up even newer shit.
I agree about Da Vinci…he was really ahead of his time!!!! I think Galileo’s telescope was also amazing! Plus Isaac Newton and gravity and one can go on and on!
My first class in computers took us ages to type into punch cards the series of holes that the scanner/reader could translate into programming. The Disks for the computer were bigger than a dinner plate. The computer at the University where we High School kids got to go stood like 8 to 10 feet tall and took up an entire room.
When Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier in 1947, Orville Wright was still alive. Five years later the first commercial jet aircraft took flight. Aircraft development was supersonic.
There are many inventions that are disputed as the first. Brazil claims it made the first controlled flight. The telephone is another. The funny thing about the light bulb is that if it were not invented then the automobile may not be as popular. Kerosene was the main way to light up houses and streets. The discarded offshoot when making Kerosene was gasoline. They through it away. Diesel was already around but expensive to make. Gasoline was being thrown away so the potential profit was almost 100%.
Electricity is actually electromagnetic force I think first demonstrated by Michael Faraday. Commercial electricity started as DC or direct current first used by Edison . The more efficient type used today is AC alternating current championed by Italian American Nicholi Tesla. AC became the standard after the 1893 Chicago exposition. Financed by Westinghouse.
Both forms have advantages and disadvantages. Long term, high voltage transmission is better done with AC because simple transformers can up a voltage for long distances (low voltage/high current suffers greatly over long distances, so raising the voltage/lowering the current cut the heat loss over every inch of transmission lines). Power is current (I is used) times voltage (P=IxV) so the same power... but heat loss is I^2xR (resistance), so if you go out to your local transmission line, cut the voltage in half and doubled the current, the wire resistance remains the same, that current is squared (multiplied by itself), so the heat lost is huge. Both men were geniuses. Tesla was more of a physicist, Edison more of an engineer (making the electricity do things like light bulbs, which work better with DC by the way). All electronics are DC powered. Laptops use DC power (yes, you plug their power supplies into the wall, but the voltage going to the laptop is DC). Inside a tower computer is a power supply that takes the AC and transforms it into various DC voltages. USB ports use 5 volts DC.
4:48 - It's more amazing than that. The Apollo computer was less powerful than a basic calculator. The chip in your smartphone is a million times more powerful than a calculator. :)
The wright brothers were actually bicycle repair shop owners in Dayton, Ohio, one of the old German and Dutch enclaves in Southwest Ohio. Wild that they took what they learned from bicycles and applied it to motorized flight!
The story of who harnessed electricity for use is interesting! It involves 2 men, Thomas Edison (I believe he was an American) and Nicola Tesla who was a Serbian who moved to the US. There is a very interesting story involving the 1893 Worlds Fair in Chicago and these 2 men both wanting to supply the fair with electricity. You should try to find a video on it I’m sure you would find it intriguing.
As for the "discovery" and practical application of electricity, recommended viewing BBC series here on TH-cam: "Shock and Awe - The Story of Electricity" with Jim Al-Khalili. Prerequisites for the Personal Computer and the Internet: 1. Transistor - Bell Telephone Labs, Murray Hills, New Jersey. 2. Integrated Circuit - Texas Instruments Dallas Texas, 3. Microprocessor - Intel Santa Clara California
Oil wells have been around for a long time. The brake through that started the modern oil industry such as Chevron, Exxon, and many others started at Spindeltop near Houston Texas on Jan 10, 1901. It was the first “gusher.” At one point producing 100k barrels daily. This brake through can be argued in what started the modern era of the Industrial Revolution. Texas itself has a full and rich history as being the only independent country that joined the United States in December 1845. Ya’ll like and subscribe like I did when I came across this vid. On a personal note in Elementary school we had to memorize a song for a school play that that named many inventors from the US. I still remember much of it to this day. It had several verses but the first one went something like this: It took Bell to make the telephone ring, and Edison to light up the way. Robert Fulton in the steam boat to chug chug down the bay. So when your spelling the word America don’t forget to dot the “i” for the inventors.
Sounds just like something a Texan would say. Self aggrandizing, and completely wrong. The first modern oil well was drilled in Poland in 1854, and the first in the United States was drilled at Titusville Pennsylvania in 1859.
I was in college when the Internet was being created over phone lines. The first thing I learned was programming phone conversations and getting different devices to talk to each other.
My Father Major Harry Paden Burchett , was a forerunner in Mapmaking and especially in Photogrammetric Engineering, I won't get into a Doctoral dissertation, but ever use GPS ? My Father as International Operations /Relations officer for the USA Defense Mapping Agency, in the late 60ts to 70ts , was in charge of proofing the accuracy of the GPS , He also held a NATO COSMIC security clearance, which basically means ,he had access to all information he needed to do for his job , from all Intelligence sources . To this day you can find some pics and references online but in depth details are non-existent. Just a bit of family history .Oh and when he was .V.P.of Overseas Operations for Areo Service Corporation in the early 1960ts , They ( as the foremost Photogrametric Engineers in the world ) Flew B-17S and B-25s and mapped the whole Arabian peninsula, for ARAMCO, and the Saudi Government, an interesting man.thanks for the vids...
Assembly line was made famous by Henry Ford. During WW II there was an assembly plant at Willow Run, where they assembled one complete bomber jet every hour. At the end of the assembly line, a flight crew waited for each plane. Once each plane was completed, the flight crew got into the plane, flew it in a test circle, then flew off to Europe. My uncle worked for Ford during WW II. He was one of the engineers who developed the B29 bomber.
Edward Kingsford, timber industry, supplied Ford with wood for cars, and ran the factory. Edison designed the factory. Ford and Kingsford were related by marriage. Ford made a better and cleaner briquette and of course marketable. The idea occurred to a chemist at the University of Oregon, Orrin Stafford, before that, but his mix had tar in it. Maybe it wasn't for cooking.
Chris, if you like this topic a great book / TV documentary from PBS (here in the United States) is called "How We Got to Now" by Steven Johnson. It looks at how different inventions and breakthroughs build on each other. He looks at six areas (1. Clean 2. Time 3. Glass 4. Light 5. Sound 6. Cold). In the book he talks in the Introduction about Charles Babbage who is the first "modern" person to invent a computer, but he was ahead of his time (Note: I say modern as the Antikythera mechanism was an ancient computer discovered off the coast of Greece at the turn of the 20th century). You were talking about the internet, computers, and electricity. Each had to build on something from the past. The internet has connections back to the telegraph and with Cyrus Field and the laying of the first transatlantic cable in the 1850s and 1860s. Without that first telegraph line being put down there would be no "world wide web." ARPANET which they talked about (per-curser to Internet) was build out of the Cold War and communication issues. All different things that build on one another.
Nicola Tesla -- a Serbian American -- invented AC power distribution and AC motors. Todays power grid is based in his work. He also invented radio -- not Marconi. Tesla: wireless remote control and bladeless turbines.
The lightning rod is probably Benjamin Franklin's most underrated invention(it should be noted that there is debate over whether or not an invention by Prokop Divis one year earlier can be considered a lightning rod[according to Wikipedia]).
Fun fact, the time between now and when the B-52 first entered service is longer than between when the Wright brother's plane first flew and the B-52 first entered service, let that sink in for a moment on how fast aircraft technology advanced between then and now
The first airplane flight was actually in Fairfield connecticut on August 14th 1901 by Gustav Whitehead. A German immigrant. The 2nd flight was later the same day in Stratford Connecticut.😮
I wish I'd asked my grandmother about flight. She was born at the beginning of flight, and lived long past the moon landings. How crazy is that? Less than 100 years. I have started asking my parents about important events that happened and how they reacted, or how was the atmosphere like (the *ssasination of JFK, for example). They said the streets were empty, as everyone was glued to their TV or radio. Edit to add: It's generally thought that the greatest invention was the printing press. So I'll give Germany a hat tip for Gutenberg.
My Grandmother was born in 1906. She liked to tell the story of when she was young radio had just been invented. She told her mother some day we'd not just be able to listen to people on the radio we'd be able to see them too. Her mother smacked her in the head with her slipper and told her not to say such crazy things.
Gutenberg was from Alsace (Avery German part of France across the Rhine from Germany). During WWI my grandfather Anglicized our last name and told his offspring they were Alsatian even though they came from a small town in Germany directly across from Alsace.
Yea, info tech is it's own cagegory. alphabet/writing printing press electronic media Internet -with each major step incorporating the others. But if we don't archive properly, the last two will be the first that doesn't preserve the benefit of the first: the TIME BINDING preservation of knowledge.
In the 60’s a British guy James Burke did a great series called Connections. He explained how we build on sometimes very long series of accumulated knowledge going back centuries. The Wright brothers communicated with Otto Lilienthal and the one that went to Europe visited Lilienthal’s widow. Connections is available in TH-cam. The transistor came out of Bell Labs in New Jersey, but at least one scientist there who was a big contributor was not educated in America. The world is getting ‘smaller’. Thanks for the good thoughts.
so to answer your question benjamin Franklin is credited with its discovery Tomas Edison is credited with harnessing DC current (mostly used in batteries) and Nikola Tesla is credited with AC current (mostly used for power lines) [all American]. along the way there are a bunch of other people who are credited with discovering bits and pieces including a German name Heinrich Herz who discovery electromagnetic waves and who the unit of frequency is named after bonus world changing invention on the horizon: the american company SpaceX had its first soft land of its Spaceship program which if the numbers are true will take the cost of puting 1lb of stuff into space from about $4000 to about $200
Nikola Tesla invented Alternating Current (AC) electricity which is used in most consumer electronics, Edison made Direct Current (DC) which is used in power lines and many industrial applications. They were both American, Edison was a born American and Tesla was an immigrant to America because he knew he could only accomplish his dreams in the USA.
A lot of these inventions would've eventually been invented by someone else, I figure. It's just a matter of who got it to work first. In the US, we're encouraged to follow our dreams, dream big, that sorta thing. (As you mentioned.) This means many of us will take risks to invent stuff that folks in other countries might not be willing or able to take. Of course once we invent something, out it goes into the wider world to be modified and improved by folks from all different nations. It's kinda cool how that happens.
3rd President under the Constitution, People forget the Presidents with one year terms before Washington took office in 1789 under the new Constitution. I prefer to start with John Hancock who was President at the signing of the Declaration of Independence as that was when the US was born. The powers were closer to our VP now and little authority in the early executive unless congress was not in session.
@Cricket2731 - I was replying to the comment that John Hancock was president. If you knew America history, you would know what the Continental Congress was and would have understood. But I didn't notice I forgot to use @ and the name of the person I was replying to, so my bad on that.
I'm happy they mentioned Ransom Eli Olds as the creator of the assembly line. The Olds Motor Vehicle Company was founded in 1897, pre-dating the American "Big Three": General Motors, Ford Motor Company and the Chrysler Corporation (along with God only knows how many other car companies). GM dissolved Oldsmobile 20 years ago, because that's how you honor a century old legacy. I'm not bitter.
To be fair to our German host, the technology trampoline that launched US dominance in technology, was carted out from Germany after WWII. Even the stealth bomber, is based on a German flying wing design, that predated all US jets.
Electricity had been experimented with before. And, of course everybody knew about lightning. Franklin's contribution was demonstrating that they were the same phenomenon.
I looked rather deep into the history of computing tech many years ago, and found out that the first person to invent packet switching, which is the method that the Arpanet and the internet use, was British, in about 1966. He wanted to build something like the Arpanet in the UK, but the British Post Office, which controlled the phone network lines he wanted to use for it didn't permit him to go forward with it. A year later, packet switching was invented independently at ARPA in the U.S. Dept. of Defense, which was used to create the Arpanet a few years later. I've thought, just think if the UK had developed their network first. We might be saying the British invented the internet. The Arpanet and the internet are related, but different. The Arpanet was only one kind of packet-switching network. There were many others around that came out after it. The internet was designed to incorporate all kinds of networks into itself. So, it's "tolerant" of different networking methods, which is why it's called a "network of networks," whereas the Arpanet was not. One of the really big inventions that changed many things was the jet/turbine engine, which was invented in the UK. It didn't make transcontinental flight possible (we were doing that with turboprop engines), but it made that travel a lot more efficient. What was running through my mind re. significant inventions made elsewhere was space rockets. I think the first rocket to make it into space was invented in Germany, the V-2, in the 1940s. This was why the importation of German scientists after WW II was so significant. They really got us into space when we did. Otherwise, we would've done it. I'm confident of that, but quite a bit later than we did. BTW, the Soviets did the same. The only reason they got Sputnik into space when they did was because of the German scientists they brought in after the war. Oh, and the first programmable computer, the Z3, was invented in Germany, by Konrad Zuse, in 1941. ENIAC, in the U.S., was the first general-purpose computer (also programmable), completed in 1945. Re. who made electricity usable, that's a good question. I'm tempted to say that was invented in America, by two people: Thomas Edison, who invented DC current, and Nikola Tesla, who invented AC current, which is the kind we use. Also, electronic television was invented in America, by Philo Farnsworth, in 1928. Television had actually been around as a curiosity long before that, by various inventors all over the industrialized world, using mechanical methods, but this was the first using the cathode ray tube that became the mainstay of TV for decades.
The skyscraper was invented in Chicago. The sports of baseball, American football and basketball were invented in the US. Movies. The record player. Jazz, blues, rock. Electric guitars. Edison and Tesla in the US both developed electric power. Cell phones.
Benjamin Franklin is the one who discovered electrictricity. Telsa and Edison were the ones who made us anle to use it. Tesla is responsible for Alternating current and Edison was responsible for Direct Current. Thus , you get AC/DC lol. Tesla's alternating current won the battle of the electricity wars. Because the AC traveled farther than DC and it was actually safer. I hope that helps❤ Love your videos!❤
Tesla also invented a light bulb and light bulb socket that was more efficient than the Edison bulb for the 1893 World's Fair. He did it because Edison refused to sell the GE Bulbs to Tesla's backer, Westinghouse, because they bid to light the fair for only $400K using Tesla's new induction motor to power the event, losing GE the bid.
A very small piece of fabric from the Wright Brothers flyer, that was on the first flight in Kitty Hawk, was taken to the moon in 1969 on Apollo 11. It's still there.
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The world doesn't see the USA having a culture, not realizing they are encase in the American culture without realizing it.
American culture is world culture because American ancestors come from every corner of the world (including native Americans). I think that’s one of the reasons we have been so creative and innovative is the merging and sharing of cultures and inspirations. You can get the best out of people when you work hard and encourage each other.
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The United States and Germany probably have the top engineers. I can't say for sure about scientists. Scientists discover new things. Engineers figure out how to make those things useful. Einstein discovered properties of the universe. Engineers figured out how to use them.
Huh?
We literally invented all of modernity lol
Considering we've only been a country for 250 years, not too shabby.
Its crazy that the US is only 100 years older then Germany.
And yet the cities are hundred of years older than ours
a little girl, present that day at Kitty Hawk when the Wright Bros made their first flight, later was at Cape Canaveral for the Launch of Apollo 11 flight to the moon - in one lifetime she witnessed both events
I can't remember where I read or heard it from. That little girl at the time not only seen the first flight but the only time the Wright Brothers flew together. One of their parents asked them not to fly together in case the worst happened.
Wow.
Can definitely understand their parents reasoning for them not to fly together given the extremely high risk of death should anything go wrong as they really didn’t have any way to protect themselves should they crash.
Any clue on the persons name I’m looking but I can’t find anything on her
To see a young German man like yourself so excited about the good parts of America is so heartwarming and uplifting Thank you so much! Peace and blessings to you. The world needs a couple billion more people just like you, a German.
Assembly lines have been around for many years before Ford. Ford developed the first MOVING assembly line. Instead of the workers moving to the work to be assembled, the piece moved to the worker. That was the key difference.
That is a huge difference….makes sense in efficiency, thanks for the clarification
Also Ford didn't invent the automobile.
Ford took a simple idea, added an improved assembly line, and even paid workers enough to where they could buy a Ford car.
In so doing, they invented the first inexpensive and mass-produced car. Henry Ford became the country's second official billionaire.
And each person did just ONE job, over and over. Ford also paid very well, but truly wanted all immigrant workers to become American. He offered free language classes, but also sent out social workers to see that employees were staying healthy (and sober).
Ford said that people who make the cars should be able to afford one.
Samuel Colt was one of the first to implement interchangeable parts and an assembly-line back in the 1850s. (Colt's Patent Fire Arms Manufacturing Company)
They should have added the transistor. We wouldn't be the biggest military in the world without it.
I would think the microchip would have made this list, but 'top 10' inventions from the land of inventions would be subjective out of necessity I suppose.
I assumed the transistor would be #1 honestly. Without it, we have almost nothing else today. Certainly nothing digital.
Mobile phones could have made the list, also. (Motorola, 1973)
Oh, and the concept of a desktop metaphor GUI. (Xerox PARC, 1973)
@@amicooke1790A Finnish guy invented the cell phone. Motorola is (or was?) a Finnish company. However he was inspired by Star Trek, an American TV show.
@@knighthawk3749 Nope. Motorola beat Nokia on both two-way radios, AND mobile phones. Motorola first introduced the portable telephone for sale in 1983. Nokia's first mobile phone wasn't offered until 1985.
Some friends were restoring a house in Nebraska that was built in 1909. They found Edison lightbulbs in the light fixtures on the ceilings and walls that were still working, about 55 years after Edison's company had stopped manufacturing them.
I had one Edison bulb in the porch of a house I rented in the 1970s and it still was working.
They make them now and I have some.
That fact, that we went from getting a man into the air with controlled flight to flying to anyplace on the planet to landing on another planet(moon) in the space of a lifetime, that’s truly amazing.
AOL (America on Line) was THE email of the '90s. Tom Hanks even starred in a movie called "You've Got Mail"!!!
Believe it or not, my username now was my old AOL name.😊
Benjamin Franklin invented the lightning rod in 1746. Bifocals lenses which he called double spectacles, swimming fins, the Franklin stove to heat up spaces. The harmonica consisting of crystal cups which play music. In Philadelphia he ran the first post office, created the first Fire Brigade and the first lending library.
Ben was my fifth cousin, nine times removed. So, on behalf of the family, sorry about the Daylight Savings Time, everybody.
It’s the Armonica but you got everything right!
1:35 - E-mail wasn't before the Internet, but it was before the World Wide Web. We had text-based Internet for quite a few years. :)
I came to the comments to see if anyone was claiming Berners-Lee invented the internet. I'ts good to see others know there is a difference between the internet and the WWW.
Technically it was before the Internet. DARPANET was the predecessor of the Internet, and was where e-mail started, but it wasn't the Internet yet when Compuserve, The Source, and the amateur Fidonet network of BBSs (Bulletin Board Systems) had e-mail, but there was no formal autmatic link between these four e-mail islands as it were.
@@digitalnomad9985 Well, I had an ISP, e-mail, FTP, TelNet, etc. and it was called "Internet", all before the WWW.
The sewing machine and the typewriter were invented in the US.
Jacked-in means Online. Back then the only way to use the internet was with a dialup (56K Modem). Jacked-in was used to describe connecting through a phone jack.
The writers of Hackers did lean ENTIRELY too hard into the buzzwords, though. It was off-putting AF.
@@amicooke1790 I agree 100%! I grew up with several of them.
The worlds say why? Or it can’t be done. The USA just smiles and says “Hold my beer.”
Americans couldn't do it without immigrants and those in other countries who came up with inventions that helped our inventors. No one lives in a bubble, no man is an island, many of those inventors were the children of immigrants or immigrants themselves.
Lol love that quote 😂
Edison was a master at promotion and coordinating research. A lot of his ideas were not his but ones he promoted, sponsored research into, (or maybe stole). But he was the best at marketing the new technologies and hiring other inventors to keep ahead in the industry.
Edison wanted DC power while Tesla went with AC power which the world uses to this day
My wife's grandfather was the lead on the GPS project. Crazy how so many people in the U.S. are directly connected to people who were world changers.
My father, when he was in the USAF, worked on getting GPS integrated throughout the military in the late 80’s.
An African American Frederick McKinley Jones invented portable refrigeration, which was instrumental in winning WW2 as we had a way to cool blood products to keep soldiers alive. This was definitely a revolutionary invention!!
I’m 57. I was today years old when I learned this. Thanks.
along with Gorge Washing Carver who separated plasma from whole blood saving millions to this day
Yep. But he was half Irish, half black.
The first artificial refrigeration device was invented by William Cullen in 1755, than Oliver Evans in 1805, then Michael Faraday in 1820, followed by another half dozen inventors. The African American inventor Frederick McKinley was late to the party with his 1938 truck refrigerator.
That's funny, I thought it was the Irish American Frederick McKinley Jones that invited portable refrigeration.
Karl and Bertha Benz pioneered the automobile while R.E. Olds and Henry Ford provided it to the masses.
Also, the internet came from DARPA while the World Wide Web was developed by Sir Timothy Berbers-Lee at CERN.
Hey, Charles B. Jeffrey of bicycle fame, was also a mass producer of Automobiles, in the early days. The Jeffrey Rambler, was the #2 seller, behind Oldsmobile, in 1902-03, before Ford got his stuff together. In 1916, Jeffrey created the 1st all wheel drive truck, and sold thousands to the Military, where they served in WW I. In 1918 the company was sold to Charles Nash, fresh from the presidency of General Motors. He sold Jeffrey's for a year or so before introducing the Nash that he designed. In 1950, Nash Motors introduced the first modern,successful, Compact car, and called it the Rambler.
Internet, World Wide Web, to-may-to, to-mah-to.
And what good is a car that only the wealthiest among us can afford?
They never said the US invented the automobile just the assembly line.
*”Wow, so email was before the internet?!”*
And from that moment…I felt like a dinosaur.😂❤
An American inventor, Hedy Lamarr was a top actress during Hollywood's golden era and originally from Austria. She is less well known as a brilliant inventor. One of her inventions, with composer George Antheil, was a forerunner to today's WiFi, Bluetooth, and GPS technologies, and has led many to dub Lamarr the mother of WiFi.
Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler
@@jacquestricatel7055 At birth, yes, but she drew her designs in America.
A really important invention that was overlooked is the TRANSISTOR. It replaced the vacuum tube and made microcomputers possible.
A fun story. My late husband was a planetary scientist who got his PhD from CalTech in the late 1970"s. While a student, he rented an apartment from a little old lady who was totally unimpressed by CalTech and NASA. "Young man", she said, "I remember when the Wright brothers first flew their plane, in 1903!"
You need to come over to America. You have such a great heart
When I was a child, my next door neighbor Mr. Wickersheim invented color TV
the first airplane is always a controversial topic, there were a lot of people trying to be first, and a lot of prototypes being tested. And arguably, there were others with powered flight that took off first. However, the Wright bros, were the first to have powered flight and controlled flight. They were the first to figure out the lift AND the steering.
That is why they are significant. The others who developed different forms of “flight” never created something that changed the world, like the Wright brothers did
All boils down to the "warped wing" system. The Wrights discovered that by building a wing and tail rudder that could be twisted slightly, they could control and redirect airflow over said components.
They spent years doing wind tunnel testing to understand the air flowing across and around the different parts of the plane, and their single control stick that turned the plane right by moving the stick to the right, and pulling back was to go up, was something no one else had.
The thing to keep in mind is, the reason America did a lot of this stuff is because the Founders setup a country that allowed people from around the world could come here and invent! You notice a lot of the inventors were came from various other countries... that's the beauty of the US.
As well as a society that encourages free thinking.
A lot of great scientists & mathematicians came to the USA durng WWII, which helped turn the USA into a science & technology powerhouse.
@@frankworthen1065 To a degree. I often feel like Americans say "march to the beat of your own drum" and then when you do they sneer at you. Just my opine as a citizen. Except the Bay Area. When I lived there all rules were suspended and the wierdos ruled. I loved it.
@@donnabert Look at the bay area now. It's so weird now that people are fleeing. A failed experiment.
The worlds' greatest melting pot!
There were a number of inventors working on making a lightbulb.
But most were expensive or would burn out in minutes to hours and were impractical.
Thomas made a bulb that would last years.
*Correction... Thomas Edison hired inventors to work for him and make a bulb that would last years.
An often overlooked US invention... The standardized shipping container. The ones you see stacked up on massive cargo ships.
For practical electricity production and distribution, that was Edison and Tesla. They had different ideas on how to do it, and were competitors. Tesla won the "current wars" with his AC system.
Tesla also invented the electric induction motor, which is basically in everything that needs to move and uses electrical power.
Tesla was a very interesting character... His ideas were way ahead of their time in many ways.
True and more interesting that electric lighting took off in England before the U.S.
I watched a documentary about those early shipping containers and the guy who invented them. I don't recall the details, but it did mention how much less expensive it became to load a ship, it was multiples higher before those containers.
Tesla also predicted the cell phone.
@@Anon54387, if I remember correctly, it was a Trucker who came up with shipping containers.
@@kennixox262 Far less surface to cover, to be fair.
It's funny that they didn't mention the television.
Because like many things in the video, it wasn't a US thing, perhaps? Some things are debatable, and so is the world. Who was the first to invent, who patented, etc.?
That’s because the television was invented by a Scottish man
Television, like the radio, was invented by MULTIPLE people in MULTIPLE countries.
Because it's watch mojo
@@denniss5505 Television was invented by Dick Van Dyke and Fatty Arbuckle. Source: me
look into Heddy Lamar....unfortunately she's only remembered for being an actress but doesn't get credit for important things like she should
What did she develop outside of frequency-hopping?
Love the BACK TO THE FUTURE reference! 👍👍👍😂😂😂
And the Buffy the Vampire (series) clip too.
The story of the invention of the airplane is an "American Dream" success story. Brothers Orville and Wilbur Wright had little or no scientific training. Mechanically talented, they built and repaired bicycles to earn a modest living. They consulted libraries for the latest research and soon understood the problems of heavier-than-air powered flight better than the perceived experts. In just four years they built several unpowered gliders and then what is believed to have been the first airplane.
I would add the miracles of vaccines to the list. We take these for granted, but they have vastly improved lives.
Sorry, we can't take credit for that. Research Pasteur (French) and Jenner (English).
@@reindeer7752 Pasteur was just the beginning from France. Most of today’s vaccines are produced and developed in America. There is no other source of vaccines in the world.
There are other vaccines out there. But the US has produced the most, by far.
The title and subject of the video is, inventions. Pasteur and Jennings are the inventors no matter how many new vaccines are developed now.
The Direct current (DC) was invented in America and then later the Alternating Current (AC) and with the transmission of electricity
The printing press is in my opinion the single greatest invention of all time . Making information available to more people & putting knowledge into the correct mind that could put it to use .
That's because nobody knows who invented the alphabet.
When it came to the first in flight, the Write brothers, one of them actually lived long enough to see the sound barrier broken
Wright.
Well....Germany invented the first practical automobile. So there is that. There are some dramatic movies about the history of Benz (and his wife) and the race that changed transportation that are very good entertainment.
lasers, tv, air conditioner, harness nuclear energy, EVs, military submarine, drilling rigs, refrigerator, drones, video game console, cyclotron (cancer research)
Fun fact: The first thing ever sold on the internet was weed lol. College students working on the internet sold some to another group doing the same thing at a different school.
However, the first email was an ad for Viagra...also invented in USA.
@@bcmorrison3 Swing and a miss.
There is another video you might want to react to “Inventions in all 50 states”. I was even shocked about some of these.
“What is AOL??” 💀
I forget how old I am lol
I still use it,I am old
@@fannybuster Me too!
Or how about CompuSeve? A precursor to AOL was MacLink which later turned into AOL. Just saw recently, the demolition of the AOL headquarters building in Virginia to make way for something else.
@@jcruz4759 👁👃👁 why
The early days of the consumer-accessible internet were "dirt road" as f***. BBS, Usenet, and Gopher were absolute clusterf***s until devs started to make user interfaces to serve as a sort of digital sherpa.
It's fascinating how many commonplace inventions have their origins in the US military. Among them are GPS, the Internet, and electronic computers in general.
Air conditioning is the best invention 😂😂😂
IT SAVES LIVES REFIGERASHIN!
Nicolie Tesler invented the AC dinamo that made long distance power possible. Along with the radio control system, and mean other inventions.
I got to see the Wright Flyer 3 in the Dayton Ohio historical museum its a pretty neat aircraft
Glad you had the opportunity to see it! People seem to forget that Dayton was also the birthplace of pull tabs, ice trays, the electric self-starter, the cash register, AND the Boolean search engine. Dayton did an awful lot of dirty work for the world in the early to mid 20th century.
The US also invented the tube TV. Probable the greatest leap forward in a technical field ever made.
It's noteworthy that the origin of the Internet was an intranet for the US nation security system for the Defense Department. They could have quick communication in the military nuclear system.
It then became the Internet
It was fortunate that there was no patent possible because government scientists created it, so public domain and so free.
DONT FORGET ABOUT POWER TOOLS THANK YOU NASA!
When I lived in Europe, Europeans told me they invented certain things that I had been taught were American. I have come to realize that America had the ability to market these things while many countries contributed their inventive abilities. It opened my eyes to how we all learn from each other.
Wow, you're the first European reactor I've seen that understands the reason so many things are invented/created here in America. We let the free thinkers.....think. And we pay them well to think up new things. And then we hire young free thinkers and we pay them to think up even newer shit.
same for Germany, GB, France etc.
You’re kinda ignorant…
Yes, but not to the same extent. There is a reason the US has the most international students. We fund R&D like crazy.
what is R&D?
@@dreamsrmadeof Research and Development.
I agree about Da Vinci…he was really ahead of his time!!!! I think Galileo’s telescope was also amazing! Plus Isaac Newton and gravity and one can go on and on!
Telescope - Hans (Johann) Lipperhey 1608 / Johannes Kepler 1611 / Christoph Scheiner 1613
@@jacquestricatel7055The device was invented by others, but Galileo was the first one to aim it at the skies to observe the universe.
My first class in computers took us ages to type into punch cards the series of holes that the scanner/reader could translate into programming. The Disks for the computer were bigger than a dinner plate. The computer at the University where we High School kids got to go stood like 8 to 10 feet tall and took up an entire room.
I misspoke in an earlier comment. It was not Edison who took over the telephone patent, but Alexander Graham Bell.
And Alexander Bell was Scottish, not American !
When Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier in 1947, Orville Wright was still alive. Five years later the first commercial jet aircraft took flight. Aircraft development was supersonic.
You're correct Alexander Graham Bell did not invent the telephone first but a Prussan Johan Philipp Reis did. he beat Bell by more than a decade
There are many inventions that are disputed as the first. Brazil claims it made the first controlled flight. The telephone is another. The funny thing about the light bulb is that if it were not invented then the automobile may not be as popular. Kerosene was the main way to light up houses and streets. The discarded offshoot when making Kerosene was gasoline. They through it away. Diesel was already around but expensive to make. Gasoline was being thrown away so the potential profit was almost 100%.
"What's AOL"? BLASPHEMY! 😂
Just as the German TMobile and DHL operate in the US, AOL also operates in Germany. He should know it.
@@arnodobler1096 except... he's a youngin.
Ok Gramma 😂
T-Mobile is an American company. DHL is german
@@sdv73168T-Mobile The company was formed in 2001 through the takeover of VoiceStream by Deutsche Telekom.
It belongs to Deutsche Telekom.
Electricity is actually electromagnetic force I think first demonstrated by Michael Faraday. Commercial electricity started as DC or direct current first used by Edison . The more efficient type used today is AC alternating current championed by Italian American Nicholi Tesla. AC became the standard after the 1893 Chicago exposition. Financed by Westinghouse.
Both forms have advantages and disadvantages. Long term, high voltage transmission is better done with AC because simple transformers can up a voltage for long distances (low voltage/high current suffers greatly over long distances, so raising the voltage/lowering the current cut the heat loss over every inch of transmission lines). Power is current (I is used) times voltage (P=IxV) so the same power... but heat loss is I^2xR (resistance), so if you go out to your local transmission line, cut the voltage in half and doubled the current, the wire resistance remains the same, that current is squared (multiplied by itself), so the heat lost is huge. Both men were geniuses. Tesla was more of a physicist, Edison more of an engineer (making the electricity do things like light bulbs, which work better with DC by the way). All electronics are DC powered. Laptops use DC power (yes, you plug their power supplies into the wall, but the voltage going to the laptop is DC). Inside a tower computer is a power supply that takes the AC and transforms it into various DC voltages. USB ports use 5 volts DC.
4:48 - It's more amazing than that. The Apollo computer was less powerful than a basic calculator. The chip in your smartphone is a million times more powerful than a calculator. :)
The wright brothers were actually bicycle repair shop owners in Dayton, Ohio, one of the old German and Dutch enclaves in Southwest Ohio. Wild that they took what they learned from bicycles and applied it to motorized flight!
The story of who harnessed electricity for use is interesting! It involves 2 men, Thomas Edison (I believe he was an American) and Nicola Tesla who was a Serbian who moved to the US. There is a very interesting story involving the 1893 Worlds Fair in Chicago and these 2 men both wanting to supply the fair with electricity. You should try to find a video on it I’m sure you would find it intriguing.
Like the way you think and your genuine reactions. Subscribed
As for the "discovery" and practical application of electricity, recommended viewing BBC series here on TH-cam: "Shock and Awe - The Story of Electricity" with Jim Al-Khalili.
Prerequisites for the Personal Computer and the Internet:
1. Transistor - Bell Telephone Labs, Murray Hills, New Jersey.
2. Integrated Circuit - Texas Instruments Dallas Texas,
3. Microprocessor - Intel Santa Clara California
Oil wells have been around for a long time. The brake through that started the modern oil industry such as Chevron, Exxon, and many others started at Spindeltop near Houston Texas on Jan 10, 1901. It was the first “gusher.” At one point producing 100k barrels daily. This brake through can be argued in what started the modern era of the Industrial Revolution. Texas itself has a full and rich history as being the only independent country that joined the United States in December 1845. Ya’ll like and subscribe like I did when I came across this vid. On a personal note in Elementary school we had to memorize a song for a school play that that named many inventors from the US. I still remember much of it to this day. It had several verses but the first one went something like this: It took Bell to make the telephone ring, and Edison to light up the way. Robert Fulton in the steam boat to chug chug down the bay. So when your spelling the word America don’t forget to dot the “i” for the inventors.
I was wandering around the US, and somewhere in Oklahoma saw a historical marker of the first oil well in that state.
Sounds just like something a Texan would say. Self aggrandizing, and completely wrong.
The first modern oil well was drilled in Poland in 1854, and the first in the United States was drilled at Titusville Pennsylvania in 1859.
AND ALL OF THOUS COMPANEY WHERE STANDERD OIL FIERST!
I was in college when the Internet was being created over phone lines. The first thing I learned was programming phone conversations and getting different devices to talk to each other.
My Father Major Harry Paden Burchett , was a forerunner in Mapmaking and especially in Photogrammetric Engineering, I won't get into a Doctoral dissertation, but ever use GPS ? My Father as International Operations /Relations officer for the USA Defense Mapping Agency, in the late 60ts to 70ts , was in charge of proofing the accuracy of the GPS , He also held a NATO COSMIC security clearance, which basically means ,he had access to all information he needed to do for his job , from all Intelligence sources . To this day you can find some pics and references online but in depth details are non-existent. Just a bit of family history .Oh and when he was .V.P.of Overseas Operations for Areo Service Corporation in the early 1960ts , They ( as the foremost Photogrametric Engineers in the world ) Flew B-17S and B-25s and mapped the whole Arabian peninsula, for ARAMCO, and the Saudi Government, an interesting man.thanks for the vids...
Assembly line was made famous by Henry Ford. During WW II there was an assembly plant at Willow Run, where they assembled one complete bomber jet every hour. At the end of the assembly line, a flight crew waited for each plane. Once each plane was completed, the flight crew got into the plane, flew it in a test circle, then flew off to Europe. My uncle worked for Ford during WW II. He was one of the engineers who developed the B29 bomber.
_"During WW II... ...they assembled one complete bomber jet every hour."_
What American bomber jet was being produced during WWII?
@@StoneE4, Look it up! Google is your friend!!!
Here’s something about Ford, he is credited with making Charcoal Briquettes it even has his name in it. Kingsford Charcoal
Edward Kingsford, timber industry, supplied Ford with wood for cars, and ran the factory. Edison designed the factory. Ford and Kingsford were related by marriage. Ford made a better and cleaner briquette and of course marketable. The idea occurred to a chemist at the University of Oregon, Orrin Stafford, before that, but his mix had tar in it. Maybe it wasn't for cooking.
I hope you keep your search for knowledge all your life, that and love is why I think we here❤
I'm truly dumbfounded they didn't list the atomic bomb or refining oil into fuel/energy
Chris, if you like this topic a great book / TV documentary from PBS (here in the United States) is called "How We Got to Now" by Steven Johnson. It looks at how different inventions and breakthroughs build on each other. He looks at six areas (1. Clean 2. Time 3. Glass 4. Light 5. Sound 6. Cold). In the book he talks in the Introduction about Charles Babbage who is the first "modern" person to invent a computer, but he was ahead of his time (Note: I say modern as the Antikythera mechanism was an ancient computer discovered off the coast of Greece at the turn of the 20th century). You were talking about the internet, computers, and electricity. Each had to build on something from the past. The internet has connections back to the telegraph and with Cyrus Field and the laying of the first transatlantic cable in the 1850s and 1860s. Without that first telegraph line being put down there would be no "world wide web." ARPANET which they talked about (per-curser to Internet) was build out of the Cold War and communication issues. All different things that build on one another.
Nicola Tesla -- a Serbian American -- invented AC power distribution and AC motors. Todays power grid is based in his work. He also invented radio -- not Marconi. Tesla: wireless remote control and bladeless turbines.
The lightning rod is probably Benjamin Franklin's most underrated invention(it should be noted that there is debate over whether or not an invention by Prokop Divis one year earlier can be considered a lightning rod[according to Wikipedia]).
Hola from New Mexico, USA. 👋 Thanks to the internet we can communicate from across the world. 😉
Im just glad they didn't say Taylor Swift for 1. They forgot the cotton gin and sewing machine.
That would be more than 10.
Eli Whitney's cotton gin was not a truly new invention it was further improvement of the Indian Chukra/Charkha.
Definitely they left out the Transistor!
Most incentions have multiple people who were working towards it but the person who patents it first gets the credit
Fun fact, the time between now and when the B-52 first entered service is longer than between when the Wright brother's plane first flew and the B-52 first entered service, let that sink in for a moment on how fast aircraft technology advanced between then and now
Most inventions are dependent on earlier inventions.
I'm extremely grateful to Gutenberg.
The first airplane flight was actually in Fairfield connecticut on August 14th 1901 by Gustav Whitehead. A German immigrant. The 2nd flight was later the same day in Stratford Connecticut.😮
I wish I'd asked my grandmother about flight. She was born at the beginning of flight, and lived long past the moon landings. How crazy is that? Less than 100 years. I have started asking my parents about important events that happened and how they reacted, or how was the atmosphere like (the *ssasination of JFK, for example). They said the streets were empty, as everyone was glued to their TV or radio.
Edit to add: It's generally thought that the greatest invention was the printing press. So I'll give Germany a hat tip for Gutenberg.
it was a a lot like the days following 9-11,,epty streets... I remember people sobbing in the grocery store when JFK was shot
My Grandmother was born in 1906. She liked to tell the story of when she was young radio had just been invented. She told her mother some day we'd not just be able to listen to people on the radio we'd be able to see them too. Her mother smacked her in the head with her slipper and told her not to say such crazy things.
You don't have to self-censor "assassinated". Knock off with that shit. This isn't China...yet.
Gutenberg was from Alsace (Avery German part of France across the Rhine from Germany). During WWI my grandfather Anglicized our last name and told his offspring they were Alsatian even though they came from a small town in Germany directly across from Alsace.
Yea, info tech is it's own cagegory.
alphabet/writing
printing press
electronic media
Internet
-with each major step incorporating the others. But if we don't archive properly, the last two will be the first that doesn't preserve the benefit of the first: the TIME BINDING preservation of knowledge.
In the 60’s a British guy James Burke did a great series called Connections. He explained how we build on sometimes very long series of accumulated knowledge going back centuries. The Wright brothers communicated with Otto Lilienthal and the one that went to Europe visited Lilienthal’s widow. Connections is available in TH-cam. The transistor came out of Bell Labs in New Jersey, but at least one scientist there who was a big contributor was not educated in America. The world is getting ‘smaller’. Thanks for the good thoughts.
I've seen that program, and it's a bullshit implementation of infinite reduction. The tone of the whole thing borders on trolling.
so to answer your question benjamin Franklin is credited with its discovery Tomas Edison is credited with harnessing DC current (mostly used in batteries) and Nikola Tesla is credited with AC current (mostly used for power lines) [all American]. along the way there are a bunch of other people who are credited with discovering bits and pieces including a German name Heinrich Herz who discovery electromagnetic waves and who the unit of frequency is named after
bonus world changing invention on the horizon:
the american company SpaceX had its first soft land of its Spaceship program which if the numbers are true will take the cost of puting 1lb of stuff into space from about $4000 to about $200
Most inventions could never be created without other inventions. There used to be a program called Connections that did a great job of showing this.
I live 10 miles from where the wright brothers were born, pretty proud they came from our county
It was Edison and Tesla that made electricity usable in modern terms
The Wright brothers also modernized the wind tunnel.
Nikola Tesla invented Alternating Current (AC) electricity which is used in most consumer electronics, Edison made Direct Current (DC) which is used in power lines and many industrial applications. They were both American, Edison was a born American and Tesla was an immigrant to America because he knew he could only accomplish his dreams in the USA.
A lot of these inventions would've eventually been invented by someone else, I figure. It's just a matter of who got it to work first. In the US, we're encouraged to follow our dreams, dream big, that sorta thing. (As you mentioned.) This means many of us will take risks to invent stuff that folks in other countries might not be willing or able to take. Of course once we invent something, out it goes into the wider world to be modified and improved by folks from all different nations. It's kinda cool how that happens.
Thomas Jefferson is America's 3rd President, shown on Mount Rushmore!!
He is also the author of The Declaration of Independence
3rd President under the Constitution, People forget the Presidents with one year terms before Washington took office in 1789 under the new Constitution. I prefer to start with John Hancock who was President at the signing of the Declaration of Independence as that was when the US was born. The powers were closer to our VP now and little authority in the early executive unless congress was not in session.
He wasn't president of the USA. He was president of the Second Continental Congress.
@@reindeer7752Jefferson was too a POTUS! Check your American history!
@Cricket2731 - I was replying to the comment that John Hancock was president. If you knew America history, you would know what the Continental Congress was and would have understood. But I didn't notice I forgot to use @ and the name of the person I was replying to, so my bad on that.
I'm happy they mentioned Ransom Eli Olds as the creator of the assembly line. The Olds Motor Vehicle Company was founded in 1897, pre-dating the American "Big Three": General Motors, Ford Motor Company and the Chrysler Corporation (along with God only knows how many other car companies). GM dissolved Oldsmobile 20 years ago, because that's how you honor a century old legacy.
I'm not bitter.
To be fair to our German host, the technology trampoline that launched US dominance in technology, was carted out from Germany after WWII. Even the stealth bomber, is based on a German flying wing design, that predated all US jets.
The popular belief in America is that Benjamin Franklin discovered electricity flying a kite with a key attached.
Electricity had been experimented with before. And, of course everybody knew about lightning. Franklin's contribution was demonstrating that they were the same phenomenon.
My grandmother's friend invented the squirtable ketchup bottle.
I looked rather deep into the history of computing tech many years ago, and found out that the first person to invent packet switching, which is the method that the Arpanet and the internet use, was British, in about 1966. He wanted to build something like the Arpanet in the UK, but the British Post Office, which controlled the phone network lines he wanted to use for it didn't permit him to go forward with it. A year later, packet switching was invented independently at ARPA in the U.S. Dept. of Defense, which was used to create the Arpanet a few years later. I've thought, just think if the UK had developed their network first. We might be saying the British invented the internet.
The Arpanet and the internet are related, but different. The Arpanet was only one kind of packet-switching network. There were many others around that came out after it. The internet was designed to incorporate all kinds of networks into itself. So, it's "tolerant" of different networking methods, which is why it's called a "network of networks," whereas the Arpanet was not.
One of the really big inventions that changed many things was the jet/turbine engine, which was invented in the UK. It didn't make transcontinental flight possible (we were doing that with turboprop engines), but it made that travel a lot more efficient.
What was running through my mind re. significant inventions made elsewhere was space rockets. I think the first rocket to make it into space was invented in Germany, the V-2, in the 1940s. This was why the importation of German scientists after WW II was so significant. They really got us into space when we did. Otherwise, we would've done it. I'm confident of that, but quite a bit later than we did. BTW, the Soviets did the same. The only reason they got Sputnik into space when they did was because of the German scientists they brought in after the war.
Oh, and the first programmable computer, the Z3, was invented in Germany, by Konrad Zuse, in 1941. ENIAC, in the U.S., was the first general-purpose computer (also programmable), completed in 1945.
Re. who made electricity usable, that's a good question. I'm tempted to say that was invented in America, by two people: Thomas Edison, who invented DC current, and Nikola Tesla, who invented AC current, which is the kind we use.
Also, electronic television was invented in America, by Philo Farnsworth, in 1928. Television had actually been around as a curiosity long before that, by various inventors all over the industrialized world, using mechanical methods, but this was the first using the cathode ray tube that became the mainstay of TV for decades.
Great reaction! Germany is no slouch when it comes to inventions. And a lot of German-Americans have contributed to a lot of inventions
The transistor from bell labs?
I would add the polio vaccine
Nicolai Tesla and Thomas Edison are known for creating the elecrical power delivery systems we have today. Tesla was from Serbia, I think.
The skyscraper was invented in Chicago. The sports of baseball, American football and basketball were invented in the US. Movies. The record player. Jazz, blues, rock. Electric guitars. Edison and Tesla in the US both developed electric power. Cell phones.
Benjamin Franklin is the one who discovered electrictricity. Telsa and Edison were the ones who made us anle to use it. Tesla is responsible for Alternating current and Edison was responsible for Direct Current. Thus , you get AC/DC lol. Tesla's alternating current won the battle of the electricity wars. Because the AC traveled farther than DC and it was actually safer. I hope that helps❤ Love your videos!❤
Electricity was discovered years before by the Greeks. Franklin simply showed that it could be harnessed along lines, such as a kite.
Franklin didn't discover electricity. He determined that lightning was composed of electricity.
Tesla also invented a light bulb and light bulb socket that was more efficient than the Edison bulb for the 1893 World's Fair. He did it because Edison refused to sell the GE Bulbs to Tesla's backer, Westinghouse, because they bid to light the fair for only $400K using Tesla's new induction motor to power the event, losing GE the bid.
A very small piece of fabric from the Wright Brothers flyer, that was on the first flight in Kitty Hawk, was taken to the moon in 1969 on Apollo 11. It's still there.
We also invented the phonograph that played music on vinyl records. I believe that was Edison as well.