technology! Humans are bound by technology! It's a part of human life, but do we ever think of the people behind it? Do you know who invented the first TV? Do you even care? what do you think the world would be without it? There would be no cartoons no movies, and you wouldent be able to get the news from around the world that easily. This thread is for all the people who have made the world what it is today, but almost nobody has ever heard about! Mention their names and what they have done here.

name: Sir Henry Cavendish

what he did: Henry discovered hydrogen in 1766

yes, Hydrogen have been useful...

alexander graham bell

the telephone

Martin Heinrich Klaproth

Uranium

Invention?
Who invented it?
When was it invented?

Airship
Henri Giffard
1852

Anthrax (vaccine)
Louis Pasteur
1881

Antibiotics (see penicillin)
Alexander Fleming
1928

Aqualung
Jacques Costeau
1943

Automobile (car)
Nicholas Cugnot
1769

Ball Point pen
Ladislao and Georg Biro
1938

Balloon (hot air)
Montgolfier brothers
1783

Bicycle
Kirkpatrick McMillan
1839

Calculator (pocket)
Jack Kilby
1967 (patent)

Camera (see also photographic film)
George Eastmann
1888

Car
Nicholas Cugnot
1769

Celluloid
John Wesley Hyatt
1869

Cholera (vaccine)
Louis Pasteur
1880

Dirigible (see airship)



Elastic (see also rubber)
Thomas Hancock
1820

Electric hair dryer
Alexandre Godefoy
1890

Electric iron
Henry W Seely
1882

Electric kettle
Arthur Leslie Large
1922

Electric light bulb
Thomas Alva Edison
1880

Electric oven
Carpenter Electric Heating Manufacturing Co.
1891

Electric toaster
Crompton and Co (UK)
1893

Electric washing machine
Alva Fisher
1906

Fax (photo-electric system)
Dr Arthur Korn
1902

Fax (concept - remote fax photo/news report)
Edouard Belin
1914

Fountain pen
Lewis Edson Waterman
1884

Hair dryer (electric)
Alexandre Godefoy
1890

Helicopter (first free, piloted flight)
Paul Cornu
1907

Hot-air Balloon
Montgolfier brothers
1783

Ice-cream (dairy mass-produced)
Jacob Fussell
1851

Ice-cream cone
Italo Marcioni
1896

Internal combustion engine
Etienne Lenoir
1862

Iron (electric)
Henry W Seely
1882

Jeans
Levi Strauss
1850

Kettle (electric)
Arthur Leslie Large
1922

Kodak camera
George Eastmann
1888

Lego
Godtfred Kirk Christiansen
1955

Light Bulb (electric)
Thomas Alva Edison
1880

Matches (safety)
Gustav Pasch
1844

Microwave oven
Percy LeBaron Spencer
1945

Morse code
Samuel Morse
1838

Motorcar
Nicholas Cugnot
1769

Motorcycle
Gottleib Daimler
1885

Oven (electric)
Carpenter Electric Heating Manufacturing Co.
1891

Oven (microwave)
Percy LeBaron Spencer
1945

Pasteurisation
Louis Pasteur
1862

Penicillin (see also antibiotics)
Alexander Fleming
1928

Penny Farthing
James Starley
1870

Photograph (first)
Joseph Niepce
1826

Photographic Film (using celluloid)
George Eastman
1889

Piano (Hammerklavier)
Bartolommeo Cristofori
1709

Plastic (celluloid)
John Wesley Hyatt
1869

Pneumatic tyre (see tyre)



Potato chips
George Crum
1853

Rabies (vaccine)
Louis Pasteur
1885

Railway (first passenger steam)
George Stephenson
1825

Refrigerator (both inventors at the same time)
James Harrison (Australia)
Alexander Catlin Twining (US)
1850

Rubber (vulcanized)
Charles Goodyear
1839 - patent in 1844

Safety belts (car) (see also seat belts)
Volvo
1849

Safety matches
Gustav Pasch
1844

Safety pin
Walter Hunt
1849

Smallpox (vaccine) -first experiments
Edward Jenner
1796

Steam locomotive
Richard Trevithick
1801

Stove (electric oven)
Carpenter Electric Heating Manufacturing Co
1891

Telegraph
W.F.Cooke and Charles Wheatstone
1838

Telephone
Alexander Graham Bell
1876

Telescope
Galileo Galilei made his own and used it in 1609
Hans Lippershey
1608

Television
John Logie Baird
1926

Thermometer (medical)
Thomas Allbutt
1867

Typewriter
William A Burt
1829 (first US patent)

Typewriter (electric)
Dr Thaddeus Cahill
1901

Toaster (electric)
Crompton and Co (UK)
1893

Tyre (pneumatic)
John Dunlop
1888

Vaccination see smallpox, cholera, rabies, anthrax



Velcro
Georges de Mestral
1948 - patent 1957

Washing machine (electric)
Alva Fisher
1906

Watch
Peter Henlein
1509

X-rays
Wilhelm Rontgen
1895

Zip fastener
Whitcombe L Judson
1892

Wow, your just kicked this threads ass didn't you?

My Dad...
he may not have been the best father but he sure did help little kids at the local youth centre.........and he always made me laugh.

*love you Dad*

^ That is about as sweet as anything I have read in awile.

Thanks Girty

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thank you Kryso! Tidlly: Your father sounds like a real hero