In schools I remember the following inventions and their inventors being taught:
eli whitney - cotton gin
joseph lister - antiseptic
louis pasteur - pasteurizing
ford - assembly line
Thomas Edison - light bulb, DC
alexander graham bell - telephone
whoever invented the nickelodeon theater - TV
(this is not complete; I know I learned other stuff; I may add it as I remember it)
I remember at the time interrogating my teacher about why we had to learn about the cotton gin, which isn't even used anymore. The answer was that it's invention sparked the industrial revolution.
So what process do they use to determine what inventions/inventors get notoriety in the textbooks? Is it inventions that made things possible that were previously impossible? or things that greatly improved efficiency?
Here's some I think at least deserve an honorable mention:
Nikola tesla - AC - WHY ON EARTH WAS NIKOLA TESLA NOT MENTIONED? If you can find a place for eli whitney's cotton gin, then can you not find a place for ALTERNATING F'N CURRENT?
wright brothers - airplanes - To give my teachers credit, I may have been taught this, but I only remember my father teaching it to me
farm tractor?
photography?
radio? > Cell phones?
guns?
missiles?
chainsaw?
welder?
personal computer?
credit cards?
semiconductors?
internal combustion engine?
the internet?
plastic?
sewing machine?
air conditioning?/ refrigeration cycle?
eli whitney - cotton gin
joseph lister - antiseptic
louis pasteur - pasteurizing
ford - assembly line
Thomas Edison - light bulb, DC
alexander graham bell - telephone
whoever invented the nickelodeon theater - TV
(this is not complete; I know I learned other stuff; I may add it as I remember it)
I remember at the time interrogating my teacher about why we had to learn about the cotton gin, which isn't even used anymore. The answer was that it's invention sparked the industrial revolution.
So what process do they use to determine what inventions/inventors get notoriety in the textbooks? Is it inventions that made things possible that were previously impossible? or things that greatly improved efficiency?
Here's some I think at least deserve an honorable mention:
Nikola tesla - AC - WHY ON EARTH WAS NIKOLA TESLA NOT MENTIONED? If you can find a place for eli whitney's cotton gin, then can you not find a place for ALTERNATING F'N CURRENT?
wright brothers - airplanes - To give my teachers credit, I may have been taught this, but I only remember my father teaching it to me
farm tractor?
photography?
radio? > Cell phones?
guns?
missiles?
chainsaw?
welder?
personal computer?
credit cards?
semiconductors?
internal combustion engine?
the internet?
plastic?
sewing machine?
air conditioning?/ refrigeration cycle?
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