20-06-2020, 11:43 AM
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Re: Inventions That Change Our Lives.
Originally Posted by Swannie148
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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.
20-06-2020, 07:05 PM
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Re: Inventions That Change Our Lives.
Originally Posted by Judd
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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.
When I was at school I was taught the Telephone and the Television were Scottish inventions. Wiki tells you otherwise.
20-06-2020, 07:06 PM
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Re: Inventions That Change Our Lives.
Originally Posted by Judd
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And electric generators and motors invented by one of my heroes, Michael Faraday. No electric to run the world without him.
20-06-2020, 09:11 PM
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Re: Inventions That Change Our Lives.
Originally Posted by Besoeker
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Or Nikola Tesla, alternating current supply.
20-06-2020, 09:45 PM
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Re: Inventions That Change Our Lives.
Originally Posted by Swannie148
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#1 The Ultrasound Scanner #2 Black Box Flight Recorder
#3 Wi-Fi.
#4 GPS Mapping
#5 Medical Nano-patches.
These and dozens more inventions have one common denominator. They were all innovated by Australian scientific R&D..
I think the French invented early flight recorders followed by an updated version by the Brits. This could withstand crashes and fire
20-06-2020, 11:24 PM
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Re: Inventions That Change Our Lives.
Originally Posted by d00d
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I'm surprised you didn't mention the telephone Judd.When I was at school I was taught the Telephone and the Television were Scottish inventions. Wiki tells you otherwise.
see the third paragraph:
"Alexander Graham Bell's invention of the first practical telephone, John Logie Baird's invention
of television"
https://theculturetrip.com/europe/un...ave-the-world/
21-06-2020, 08:38 AM
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Re: Inventions That Change Our Lives.
Originally Posted by Baz46
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Just checked out Wikipedia and as far as I can see the reverse seems to be shown on there,see the third paragraph:
"Alexander Graham Bell's invention of the first practical telephone, John Logie Baird's invention of television"
https://theculturetrip.com/europe/un...ave-the-world/
Yes and this is what I was taught at school.
However, google helps you dig a bit deeper ...
Bell & Baird were both born in Scotland but neither were living or working there while doing their vital research. Both were financed abroad working on different aspects of what evolved into their accredited inventions. Neither the phone nor the TV were invented in Scotland.
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