19-06-2020, 08:39 PM
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Originally Posted by keezoy
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I'm surprised nobody hasn't mentioned our best invention of all...OK well maybe not an "invention" but waddaya do!
19-06-2020, 08:48 PM
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[QUOTE=Judd;1920961]Most of the inventions during the Industrial Revolution including steam engines, locomotives, mill machinery, refining the steel process, accurate clocks, RADAR, television, thermionic valve (predecessor of the transistor), hovercraft, jet engines, computers - all British inventions.A pity that the younger generation don't realise that all the things they take for granted were created from British inventions and would rather slag off our history rather than rejoice in it.[/QUOTE]
Absolutely Judd. 'Inventors Lives Matter!'
19-06-2020, 08:54 PM
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Originally Posted by spitfire
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What about (C2H4)n Foxy?
Ethylene (IUPAC name: ethene) is a hydrocarbon which has the formula C
2H
4 or H2C=CH2. It is a colorless flammable gas with a faint "sweet and musky" odour when pure.[5] It is the simplest alkene (a hydrocarbon with carbon-carbon double bonds).
Ethylene is widely used in the chemical industry, and its worldwide production (over 150 million tonnes in 2016[6]) exceeds that of any other organic compound.[7][8] Much of this production goes toward polyethylene, a widely used plastic containing polymer chains of ethylene units in various chain lengths. Ethylene is also an important natural plant hormone and is used in agriculture to force the ripening of fruits.[9] The hydrate of ethylene is ethanol.
19-06-2020, 09:08 PM
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Re: Inventions That Change Our Lives.
Originally Posted by OldGreyFox
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Nice curved ball Spitty......Could be a link....Ethylene (IUPAC name: ethene) is a hydrocarbon which has the formula C
2H
4 or H2C=CH2. It is a colorless flammable gas with a faint "sweet and musky" odour when pure.[5] It is the simplest alkene (a hydrocarbon with carbon-carbon double bonds).
Ethylene is widely used in the chemical industry, and its worldwide production (over 150 million tonnes in 2016[6]) exceeds that of any other organic compound.[7][8] Much of this production goes toward polyethylene, a widely used plastic containing polymer chains of ethylene units in various chain lengths. Ethylene is also an important natural plant hormone and is used in agriculture to force the ripening of fruits.[9] The hydrate of ethylene is ethanol.
Unintentional genetic modification could be responsible for a lot of stuff, not invented in literal terms.
20-06-2020, 02:26 AM
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Originally Posted by OldGreyFox
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I'll be the first one to praise the inventors Swannie, in fact I squirrel away in my workshop and invent and build stuff but unfortunately it has all been invented before...
No matter, It's the journey I enjoy more than the destination!...
However, you have to agree that progress and new materials are not infinite, and at some point it will slow down and stop when we have exhausted the planet of every useful material. A while back I was reading about a shortage of copper; can you imagine a world without copper...There is also a shortage of 'sand' sand would you believe! Apparently it has to be a special kind of sand to make concrete and cement, not just any sand will do! And just look at some of the things we require as humans since say the fifties.....What used to be gadgets and gizmos are now necessities.
Mobile Phones, TV (Sky, Satellite, freeview, Netflix etc), the Internet (computers, laptops, games, DVD players) dishwashers, microwaves, gas/electric boilers for heating, cars, new kitchens/bathrooms (showers, En Suites) Medication, New clothes every other week, paint, wallpaper and other decorating materials (B&Q and others have built businesses out of our passion for DIY) and ten thousand different types of food from every corner of the planet!.....
We are on a slippery slope Swannie, we can either stick, or carry on to oblivion (or cave dwelling)....
20-06-2020, 02:35 AM
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computers - all British inventions. Fraid not Judd.Frederick, Maryland, U.S. John Vincent Atanasoff, OCM, an American physicist and inventor, is best known for being credited with inventing the first electronic digital computer in the 1930s at Iowa State College.[I]
Englishman Tim Berners-Lee and Belgian Robert Cailliau invented the World Wide Web in 1989.
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