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In your opinion which were the greatest inventions since 1819 sice i'm posting in "Post 1819".
There are so many...
And some come immediately to mind:
-Radio
-TV
-Computer
-Airplane
-Auto(car)
-telephone
-telegraph
-Electricity

And there are so many more, in other fields, like in medical science(medical care) , military, transportation, media, comunications and many more fields...
 

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Eh, you can hardly compare electricity to others, electricity isn't an invention... let's stick to things which can be patented.
 

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Originally posted by Maur13
Eh, you can hardly compare electricity to others, electricity isn't an invention... let's stick to things which can be patented.

Electricity always existed not the ability of generating electricity by man.

Edison used his DC generator to provide electricity to light his laboratory and later to illuminate the first New York street to be lit by electric lamps, in September 1882. Edison's successes were not without controversy, however - although he was convinced of the merits of DC for generating electricity, other scientists in Europe and America recognised that DC brought major disadvantages.

Nearly 40 years went by before a really practical DC (Direct Current) generator was built by Thomas Edison in America. Edison's many inventions included the phonograph and an improved printing telegraph.
 

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Originally posted by laelius
1- light bulb

In 1878 Joseph Swan, a British scientist, invented the incandescent filament lamp and within twelve months Edison made a similar discovery in America.

Swan and Edison later set up a joint company to produce the first practical filament lamp.

1-DC (Direct Current) generator(generate elctricity) and incandescent filament lamp(to illuminate the first New York street to be lit by electric lamps).
 

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Originally posted by Falcão
In your opinion which were the greatest inventions since 1819 sice i'm posting in "Post 1819".
There are so many...
And some come immediately to mind:
-Radio
-TV
-Computer
-Airplane
-Auto(car)
-telephone
-telegraph
-Electricity

And there are so many more, in other fields, like in medical science(medical care) , military, transportation, media, comunications and many more fields...

The computer is out unless you limit it to electronic computers. Charles Babbage developed a machine that can be considered a computer. The silicon chip should be on the list though.
 

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Re: Re: Greatest inventions since 1819

Originally posted by Matt Penfold


The computer is out unless you limit it to electronic computers. Charles Babbage developed a machine that can be considered a computer. The silicon chip should be on the list though.

When did Charles Babbage developed such a machine?
So computer is out of timeline or is out of inventions?
Ask how many consider the computer(as we know it nowadays) a XX century invention...
Well people that use computers nowadays should thank Charles Babbage whatever he invented...Maybe it was a 1 Byte Ram processor...:D
STOP Criticizing the list and add some inventions!
:D
 

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I'd go for trains. Quite suddenly it became possible to cover large distances quickly. Cars and planes are nice enough, but only an incremental improvement over trains. Trains were the quantum leap in transportation.
 

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I vote for telephone, edging out telegraph. Both eliminated the barrier of distance; telephone gets the nod because telegraph is/was limited to specialists.
 

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Re: Re: Re: Greatest inventions since 1819

Originally posted by Falcão


When did Charles Babbage developed such a machine?
So computer is out of timeline or is out of inventions?
Ask how many consider the computer(as we know it nowadays) a XX century invention...
Well people that use computers nowadays should thank Charles Babbage whatever he invented...Maybe it was a 1 Byte Ram processor...:D
STOP Criticizing the list and add some inventions!
:D

Actually you maybe right in that the invention just about comes in your timescale. However you comments make it clear that you fail to understand that a computer need not be electronic, their were plenty of anologue computers in use before the first electronic computers came along.
 

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Originally posted by Matt Penfold
The computer is out unless you limit it to electronic computers. Charles Babbage developed a machine that can be considered a computer. The silicon chip should be on the list though.
Although Charles Babbage was born before 1819 (1791 to be exact), he developed his 'analytic engine' after he was 28, so he certainly falls into the time frame.
 

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the thingies they used in computers before they had silicon-chips... transistors or whatever they're called...

lot's more: when did Pasteur do his thingy and what was it? (lol, can't remember).
Vaccination (now this probably going to be the thing Pasteur did) :D
Penicilline (sp?), anesthetics -you know, to let someone sleep on the operating table (sp?)...
another important 'invention' is sterilisation (of medical equipment) :D
Radio-activity and the x-ray...
Mendel and the first knowledge of genetics, the discovery of the DNA in 1951 (IIRC) and more recently: the Human Genome Project.
...
 

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Hydrogen bomb/Nukes - world peace
Chemical fertilizers - food
Dynamite - mining, construction, war and peace
Water flush toilets - hygiene
Machine guns - war and peace
Concrete and steel for construction - living environment
Internal combustion engine - too many things to list
Tanks - war and peace
Segway :D - travel
Refridgerator - food
DOS and Windows - make computers accessible to the public
The assembly line - manufacturing
Submarines - war and peace
Fast food - improved living standard
 

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Originally posted by Fallwall
1.Concrete and steel for construction - living environment
2.DOS and Windows - make computers accessible to the public
3.Fast food - improved living standard

1. concrete is a Roman invention. Adding steel to reinforce it is a modern. One thing though: our reinforced concrete doens't have the longevity of Roman concrete, but you can make taller buildings, longer bridges,... with it.

2. c:\run
c:\run\dos
run dos, run!!

3. for the the medics doing all those operations on fat people :D
 

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Re: Re: Re: Re: Greatest inventions since 1819

Originally posted by Matt Penfold


Actually you maybe right in that the invention just about comes in your timescale. However you comments make it clear that you fail to understand that a computer need not be electronic, their were plenty of anologue computers in use before the first electronic computers came along.

I understood, you failed to understand that i meant a computer like as we know it today.
There were some XVIII century robots that were a joke like the XVIII "Computers", so you can also say that there were robots in 1800 as you wanna call it.
In the 50's a simple calculating machine was considered some kind of a computer, if i can make my point...
 

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For entirely selfish personal reasons - The Bycycle.Hard to say who actually invented it and exactly when but it's final design for sporting purposes at least was defined by the UCI in 1936.

Best inventions for real? Probably anything to do with public health.Refrigeration.
 

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first serious "electric computers" : 30's and 40's. ENIAC (USA) and Z1 (Zuse, Germany).


You should really write electric computers, or more precisely VNA-Machine. A computer is just a calculating machine.... even an abacus or the Hollerith machine (one of the first products of IBM) can be considered a computer.