mechanicao innovation that changed human life?
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Printing press, television, computer. Writing materials also count. But the most influential was the phoenetic alphabet. Off topic, bu just some extra info.
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wow. brilliant idea, it will revolutionize the world and make you richer than Bill Gates. I wonder why nobody else came up with it before.
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In a Positive way.\n\nThe automotive industry is one of the largest users of Robotics.\n\nAlthough, Robotics has eliminated many manual tasks performed by people...there has been an increase in quality and an ultimate cost reduction.\n\nAdditionally, The repetitive and dangerous tasks have been replaced by robotics. \n\nRobotics Engineering has emerged as a science and engineering discipline.\n\nThe use of Robotics in industry created the need for Engineers, Technicians, operators and Maintenance people.\n\nSee the attached URL for additional information:\n\nhttp://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2004/6/19/20340/6404\n\nRegards.
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1) The Telephone \nThe telephone is an instrument that converts voice and sound signals into electrical impulses for transmission by wire to a different location, where another telephone receives the electrical impulses and turns them back into recognizable sounds. In 1875, Alexander Graham Bell built the first telephone that transmitted electrically the human voice.\n2) The History of Computers\nThere are many major milestones in the history of computers, starting with 1936, when Konrad Zuse built the first freely programmable computer.\n3) Television \nIn 1884, Paul Nipkow sent images over wires using a rotating metal disk technology with 18 lines of resolution. Television then evolved along two paths, mechanical based on Nipkow's rotating disks, and electronic based on the cathode ray tube. American Charles Jenkins and Scotsman John Baird followed the mechanical model while Philo Farnsworth, working independently in San Francisco, and Russian émigré Vladimir Zworkin, working for Westinghouse and later RCA, advanced the electronic model.\n4) The Automobile\nIn 1769, the very first self-propelled road vehicle was invented by French mechanic, Nicolas Joseph Cugnot. However, it was a steam-powered model. In 1885, Karl Benz designed and built the world's first practical automobile to be powered by an internal-combustion engine. In 1885, Gottlieb Daimler took the internal combustion engine a step further and patented what is generally recognized as the prototype of the modern gas engine and later built the world's first four-wheeled motor vehicle.\n5) The Cotton Gin \nEli Whitney patented the cotton gin on March 14, 1794. The cotton gin is a machine that separates seeds, hulls and other unwanted materials from cotton after it has been picked.\n6) The Camera\nIn 1814, Joseph Nicéphore Niépce created the first photographic image with a camera obscura, however, the image required eight hours of light exposure and later faded. Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre is considered the inventor of the first practical process of photography in 1837.\n7) The Steam Engine\nThomas Savery was an English military engineer and inventor who in 1698, patented the first crude steam engine. Thomas Newcomen invented the atmospheric steam engine in 1712. James Watt improved Newcomen's design and invented what is considered the first modern steam engine in 1765.\n8) The Sewing Machine\nThe first functional sewing machine was invented by the French tailor, Barthelemy Thimonnier, in 1830. In 1834, Walter Hunt built America's first (somewhat) successful sewing machine. Elias Howe patented the first lockstitch sewing machine in 1846. Isaac Singer invented the up-and-down motion mechanism. In 1857, James Gibbs patented the first chain-stitch single-thread sewing machine. Helen Augusta Blanchard patented the first zig-zag stitch machine in 1873.\n9) The Light Bulb\nContrary to popular belief, Thomas Alva Edison didn't "invent" the light bulb, but rather he improved upon a 50-year-old idea. In 1809, Humphry Davy, an English chemist, invented the first electric light. In 1878, Sir Joseph Wilson Swan, an English physicist, was the first person to invent a practical and longer-lasting electic lightbulb (13.5 hours) with a carbon fiber filament. In 1879, Thomas Alva Edison invented a carbon filament that burned for forty hours.\n10) Penicillin \nPenicillin was discovered by Alexander Fleming in 1928. Andrew Moyer patented the first method of industrial production of penicillin in 1948.
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i think the most useful invention to mankind would be electricity. without electricy, none of our current "conveniences" would be useful. without electricity, we would have no lights, no heat, no indoor hot water, no refrigeraation for food...electricity started it all and I feel it was and is the most useful to mankind.
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try this link\nhttp://www.invent.org/hall_of_fame/106.html
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Think out of box, Innovate, surprise element
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A\nNils Alwall, (1904-1986), Sweden — the dialysis machine \nArchimedes, (c 287 BC-212 BC), Greece \nManfred von Ardenne, (1907-1997), Germany \nWilliam George Armstrong, (1810-1900), England — hydraulic crane \nJoseph Aspdin, (1788–1855), England — Portland cement \nJohn Vincent Atanasoff, (1903-1995), Bulgaria — modern computer \n[edit]\nB\nCharles Babbage, (1791-1871), England — Analytical engine \nLeo Baekeland, (1863-1944), Belgian–American — Velox photographic paper and Bakelite \nRalph Baer, (1922-), German born American — the home video game console \nJohn Logie Baird, (1888-1946), Scotland — a working television \nJohn Bardeen, (1908-1991), USA — co-inventor of the transistor \nTrevor Baylis, (1937-), England — a wind-up radio \nDonát Bánki, (1859-1922), Hungary — inventor of the carburetor \nArnold O. Beckman, (1900-2004), USA — pH meter \nAlexander Graham Bell, (1847-1922), Canada — telephone \nKarl Benz, (1844–1929), Germany — the petrol-powered automobile \nEmile Berliner, (1851-1929), Germany and USA — the disc record gramophone \nTim Berners-Lee, (1955-), England — with Robert Cailliau, the World Wide Web \nBi Sheng, (?-1052), China — primitive movable printing types \nLászlo Bíró, (1899-1985), Hungary — modern ballpoint pen \nOttó Bláthy (1860-1939), Hungary — co-inventor of thetransformer, wattmeter, alternating current (AC) and turbogenerator \nKatherine Blodgett, (1898-1979), England — nonreflective glass \nNils Bohlin, (1920-2002), Sweden — the three-point seat belt \nJános Bolyai (1802-1860), Hungary — discoverer of non-Euclidean geometry \nJoseph-Armand Bombardier, (1907-1964), Canada — snowmobile \nSeth Boyden, (1788-1870), USA — nail-making machine \nWalter Houser Brattain, (1902-1987), USA — co-inventor of the transistor \nLouis Braille, (1809-1852), France — the Braille writing system \nKarl Ferdinand Braun, (1850-1918), Germany — cathode-ray tube oscilloscope \nImre Bródy, (1891-1944), Hungary — co-inventor of krypton-filled fluorescent lamps \nEdwin Beard Budding, (1795-1846), England — lawnmower \nRoger Bacon, (1214-1292), England — magnifying glass \n[edit]\nC\nCài Lún, (50 AD — 121), China — paper \nMarvin Camras, (1916 - 1995), USA — magnetic recording \nChester Carlson, (1906-1968), USA — electrophotography \nWallace Carothers, (1896-1937), USA — Nylon \nAdrian Chernoff, (1971-), USA — Hy-wire, Rubber Bandits \nSamuel Hunter Christie, (1784-1865), England — Wheatstone bridge \nChristopher Cockerell, (1910-1999), England — Hovercraft \nJacques Cousteau, (1910–1997), France — co-inventor of the aqualung \nHolger Crafoord, (1908-1982), Sweden — inventor of the artificial kidney \nJános Csonka, (1852-1939), Hungary — co-inventor of carburetor \nNicolas-Joseph Cugnot, (1725-1804), France — automobile \nJuan de la Cierva, (1895-1936), Spain — the autogyro \nRichard Cinque, (1960-), USA — Sock Clip, Plate Caddy \nWilliam Cullen, (1710-1790), Scotland — first artificial refrigerator \n[edit]\nD\nGustaf Dalén, (1869-1937), Sweden — invented the AGA Lighthouse \nSalvino D'Armate, (?-?), Italy — credited for inventing eyeglasses in 1284 \nJoseph Day, (1855-1946), England — the crankcase compression two stroke engine \nLee DeForest, (1873-1961), USA — triode \nSir James Dewar, (1842-1923), Scotland — Thermos flask \nMiksa Déri (1854-1938), Hungary — co-inventor of transformer \nWilliam Kennedy Laurie Dickson, (1860-1935), Scotland — motion picture camera \nRudolf Diesel, (1858-1913), Germany — Diesel engine \nKarl Drais, (1785-1851), Germany — dandy horse (Draisine) \nCornelius Drebbel, (1572-1633), The Netherlands — first navigable submarine \nRichard Drew, (1899-1980), USA — Scotch (or cellophane) tape \n[edit]\nE\nGeorge Eastman, (1854-1932), USA — film-roll \nThomas Edison, (1847-1931), USA — phonograph, commercially practical light bulb, motion picture projector
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Yes, modern day inventions are fascinating. Imagine the stuff that companies have developed but have not shown us. Just the other day, I was reading about quantum teleportation and about creating force fields with plasma. It is amazing how far we have come and where our imagination can take us.
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Read "The Singular is Near" by Kurzwiel. Non Fiction You will be amazed at the speed of technological advancement. Good reading if your interested in this stuff.
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My father has been a mechanic all his life and I have a college degree . . . I don't think any less of him for one reason and one reason only . . . I know my dad could do anything he chooses to do in life (he's one of the most intelligent people I know and undoubtedly smarter than half my college professors). He chose to be a mechanic because he loves working on machines, my dad is doing what he loves and that's a thousand times better than people who are making millions and aren't happy.
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Pi, Quantum mechanics, the calcatronic 1950s computer, cloning, medical improvement. These are all things we couldn't go without. Without a calcatronic computer there wouldnt be a modern computer. Without quanutum mechanics. There would not be a calcatronic computer, without pi. There would be no Titanic or civil engineering, without cloning, there would be no medical improvement, without medical improvement, people would still be dying from simple things like a cold or a bruise!
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Electrobotics\n\nThe Electrobotics Company was on the verge of a major world-changing discovery when its research developer/scientist, Brian Childs, figured out a way to connect human DNA to its prototype robot, DEX-4. A robot with the ability to think and rationalize could have mind-staggering effects, on the world not to mention mind staggering profits for the company.
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The most important device is the dynamo\nIt was invented by Michael Faraday, hardly 2 centuries ago\nThe 'watermill' was invented already more than a millenium ago.
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This is sort of like the chicken and/or the egg. But The principle (undoubtedly) was discovered, but the implementation of the object was invented - ie it is the combination of axle, hub, and bearing that is the invention, allowing a wheel to be attached to a cart or similar, to make it useful.\n\n The idea of perpetual motion is nothing new. It was discovered and proven in the beginning of the 18 century. The invention was a working system using the gravity force to power the wheel. This made the inventor famous in history. \n\nThus, in summation, I firmly believe that the wheel was discovered just by observing nature but the axle, etc was invented.
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Innovation is a scientific approach for finding newer better ideas and solutions to problems, which make life easier and simpler to live!
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If I understand what I've read of the term correctly, a technological singularity is what happens when several innovative or radical technologies come together in a way that basically *changes everything* about a civilization.\n\nFor example, James Watt was one of the people who invented the steam engine, so folks knew what pistons moving inside  cylinders were for decades.  Folks knew what assembly-line production was too, as it was first used on Colt firearms in the U.S. Civil War, and Leonardo DaVinci *had plans for a horseless carriage* centuries before anyone knew what a car was....\n\nAnd yet it nearly took until the dawn of the 20th century for all the pieces to gel together in the right way to make cars.  Once that happened, however....\n\nBOOM! that piece of tech changed *everything*, and now we can't imagine America without cars.\n\nThing is, this has been the trend for innovation with us half-wit humans since the dawn of civilization...we get the pieces, sit on them for a bit, and when the time is right, *then* some genius gets them together and changes everything.\n\nBut the trend is on a non-linear, accelerating curve....meaning at some point in the near future, things will accelerate to such a point, and the developed world at least will have *so many* pieces in place that *multiple* "this changes everything" moments just might happen all at once at a rate *unprecedented* in human history.\n\nIt's hitting that point on the curve that most folks are talking about when they say "singularity".  I think.  :S