Greatest inventions 1936-1950+

[Grallak]

A lot of things were invented in this time period, ranging from commercial airflights to flexible bras and other commodities, not just guns and tanks and bombs. Which were some of the inventions during this time period? Commercial or Military inventions both count.

 

[Loke]

Penicilin , Atomic energy for civilian use, Radar for civilian air, Computers...
Not all invented during the war but indeed some progress were made to say the least.

 

[emux]

My prefers:

1936

• Voice recognition synthesizer machine.

1937

• Photocopies
• Jet engine

1938

• The ballpoint pen
• Strobe lighting.
• LSD was synthesized !!!
• Tetrafluoroethylene polymers also called Teflon.
• Freeze-dried coffe
• Turboprop engine.

1939

• Helicopter

1940

• Color television system
• Jeep

1941

• Z3, the first computer controlled by software.
• Aerosol sprays cans

1942

• First electronic digital computer.

1943

• Synthetic rubber SBR invented produced.
• Albert Hofmann discovered the hallucinogenic properties of LSD !!!

 

[Axe99]

My prefers:

1936

• Voice recognition machine.

I had no idea they had voice recognition that early! Although given how bad it still was at the turn of the century, I shudder to think what it was like back in the 30s. It's actually not too shabby now, quite impressive even.

I reckon the early computers would be my favourite invention during the period - thanks to their descendents, we'll get to play HoI4 in a month .

 

[Nicolas I]

Suntan/sunscreen lotion (1936), Bikini (1946) and to be fair "Tarzan" swim briefs (1932)

 

[JerkyJerry]

Trampolines!

 

[Commissar Yossarian]

My prefers:
1943

• Synthetic rubber invented.
• Albert Hofmann discovered the hallucinogenic properties of LSD !!!

Synthetic rubber was way earlier, like 1918 or so.

Also your information about Jet engines are way off. Even giving you the benefit of meaning a gas turbine the first one was built in 1909 and the first one for a plane in like 1920. The theory had been well understood long before that too.

The more I look at your list, the more suspicious of many items I become. As a general caution to others don't go quoting anything from that without check it first...

 

[klucz13]

AK-47

 

[77Hawk77]

First credit card was made in 1950
Super glue and Pace makers were also first invented in the early 1950s.

The T-54 the most produced tank ever was first made in 1946.

 

[Price21]

I wouldn't say its that great or it was invented in this time period although in the 30s and 40s, Drivers Licenses really started to take off ;p

 

[wiguy]

I had no idea they had voice recognition that early! Although given how bad it still was at the turn of the century, I shudder to think what it was like back in the 30s. It's actually not too shabby now, quite impressive even.

My prefers:

1936

• Voice recognition machine.

I'm sorry, but this is just patently wrong. However, it is an understandable misconception. The first speech synthesizer was invented in '36. This is much, much easier to create than a speech recognition machine. Speech synthesizing doesn't require much processing power, and would be doable in the 30's I would guess. Still very impressive though.
Speech recognition is a whole other beast, and requires alot of processing power and is waay beyond what was possible in the 30's, even command based recognition.

As I'm not just a naysayer I'll add my favorite from ww2 inventions:
Jerrycans! Which is, in some weird way, very awesome.

 

[emux]

Synthetic rubber was way earlier, like 1918 or so.

Also your information about Jet engines are way off. Even giving you the benefit of meaning a gas turbine the first one was built in 1909 and the first one for a plane in like 1920. The theory had been well understood long before that too.

The more I look at your list, the more suspicious of many items I become. As a general caution to others don't go quoting anything from that without check it first...

I am not a super expert in the field, but where you mention I mean production not design or first synthesys :

- About Syntethic Rubber a mean SBR perhaps the year in not pure exact but industrial manufacture of this truly replacement for natural rubber began during World War 2 in 1943

- With Jet Engine everything is questionable but with the timeline on hand https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_jet_power#First_turbojet_engines_.281930-1938.29 1937 looks like the year of the jet engines really started to work.

• April, 1937: Whittle's experimental centrifugal engine is tested at the British Thomson-Houston plant in Rugby
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinkel_HeS_1

Of course maybe dates are questionable but if they serve to give a general idea of when some things come to our lives.

 

[emux]

I'm sorry, but this is just patently wrong. However, it is an understandable misconception. The first speech synthesizer was invented in '36. This is much, much easier to create than a speech recognition machine. Speech synthesizing doesn't require much processing power, and would be doable in the 30's I would guess. Still very impressive though.
Speech recognition is a whole other beast, and requires alot of processing power and is waay beyond what was possible in the 30's, even command based recognition.

1936 AT&T's Bell Labs produced the first electronic speech synthesizer called the Voder (Dudley, Riesz and Watkins). This machine was demonstrated in the 1939 World Fairs by experts that used a keyboard and foot pedals to play the machine and emit speech.

 

[frolix42]

Jerrycans! Which is, in some weird way, very awesome.

This and the Stahlhelm (though that is WW1), influential in their own little lanes.

 

[wiguy]

1936 AT&T's Bell Labs produced the first electronic speech synthesizer called the Voder (Dudley, Riesz and Watkins). This machine was demonstrated in the 1939 World Fairs by experts that used a keyboard and foot pedals to play the machine and emit speech.

I don't know where you're quote is from... But this proves the point that the first speech synthesizing machine was invented in '36. Speech synthesis is the opposite of speech recognition as you claimed in your first post. Speech synthesis is creating speech from (often textual) input. Speech recognition is textual output from speech.

 

[Dutchman06]

The transistor, without it we wouldn't likely be here on this forum.

 

[emux]

I don't know where you're quote is from... But this proves the point that the first speech synthesizing machine was invented in '36. Speech synthesis is the opposite of speech recognition as you claimed in your first post. Speech synthesis is creating speech from (often textual) input. Speech recognition is textual output from speech.

Corrected.

 

[Axe99]

I'm sorry, but this is just patently wrong. However, it is an understandable misconception. The first speech synthesizer was invented in '36. This is much, much easier to create than a speech recognition machine. Speech synthesizing doesn't require much processing power, and would be doable in the 30's I would guess. Still very impressive though.
Speech recognition is a whole other beast, and requires alot of processing power and is waay beyond what was possible in the 30's, even command based recognition.

As I'm not just a naysayer I'll add my favorite from ww2 inventions:
Jerrycans! Which is, in some weird way, very awesome.

That makes a lot more sense - but I didn't know any better . Thanks for wising us up .

 

[TheRomanRuler]

I don`t yet know what to think about this, but nuclear weapons might be greatest invention of all time. Thanks to nuclear threat, WW3 was never fought during the Cold War, which remained cold.
But like i said, i don`t know what to think about it.

 

[amalric de g.]

AK-47