American culture is world culture because American ancestors come from every corner of the world (including native Americans). I think that’s one of the reasons we have been so creative and innovative is the merging and sharing of cultures and inspirations. You can get the best out of people when you work hard and encourage each other.
The United States and Germany probably have the top engineers. I can't say for sure about scientists. Scientists discover new things. Engineers figure out how to make those things useful. Einstein discovered properties of the universe. Engineers figured out how to use them.
a little girl, present that day at Kitty Hawk when the Wright Bros made their first flight, later was at Cape Canaveral for the Launch of Apollo 11 flight to the moon - in one lifetime she witnessed both events
I can't remember where I read or heard it from. That little girl at the time not only seen the first flight but the only time the Wright Brothers flew together. One of their parents asked them not to fly together in case the worst happened.
Can definitely understand their parents reasoning for them not to fly together given the extremely high risk of death should anything go wrong as they really didn’t have any way to protect themselves should they crash.
I would think the microchip would have made this list, but 'top 10' inventions from the land of inventions would be subjective out of necessity I suppose.
@@amicooke1790A Finnish guy invented the cell phone. Motorola is (or was?) a Finnish company. However he was inspired by Star Trek, an American TV show.
@@knighthawk3749 Nope. Motorola beat Nokia on both two-way radios, AND mobile phones. Motorola first introduced the portable telephone for sale in 1983. Nokia's first mobile phone wasn't offered until 1985.
Assembly lines have been around for many years before Ford. Ford developed the first MOVING assembly line. Instead of the workers moving to the work to be assembled, the piece moved to the worker. That was the key difference.
Also Ford didn't invent the automobile. Ford took a simple idea, added an improved assembly line, and even paid workers enough to where they could buy a Ford car. In so doing, they invented the first inexpensive and mass-produced car. Henry Ford became the country's second official billionaire.
And each person did just ONE job, over and over. Ford also paid very well, but truly wanted all immigrant workers to become American. He offered free language classes, but also sent out social workers to see that employees were staying healthy (and sober).
Samuel Colt was one of the first to implement interchangeable parts and an assembly-line back in the 1850s. (Colt's Patent Fire Arms Manufacturing Company)
Some friends were restoring a house in Nebraska that was built in 1909. They found Edison lightbulbs in the light fixtures on the ceilings and walls that were still working, about 55 years after Edison's company had stopped manufacturing them.
Benjamin Franklin invented the lightning rod in 1746. Bifocals lenses which he called double spectacles, swimming fins, the Franklin stove to heat up spaces. The harmonica consisting of crystal cups which play music. In Philadelphia he ran the first post office, created the first Fire Brigade and the first lending library.
That fact, that we went from getting a man into the air with controlled flight to flying to anyplace on the planet to landing on another planet(moon) in the space of a lifetime, that’s truly amazing.
I came to the comments to see if anyone was claiming Berners-Lee invented the internet. I'ts good to see others know there is a difference between the internet and the WWW.
Technically it was before the Internet. DARPANET was the predecessor of the Internet, and was where e-mail started, but it wasn't the Internet yet when Compuserve, The Source, and the amateur Fidonet network of BBSs (Bulletin Board Systems) had e-mail, but there was no formal autmatic link between these four e-mail islands as it were.
Karl and Bertha Benz pioneered the automobile while R.E. Olds and Henry Ford provided it to the masses. Also, the internet came from DARPA while the World Wide Web was developed by Sir Timothy Berbers-Lee at CERN.
Hey, Charles B. Jeffrey of bicycle fame, was also a mass producer of Automobiles, in the early days. The Jeffrey Rambler, was the #2 seller, behind Oldsmobile, in 1902-03, before Ford got his stuff together. In 1916, Jeffrey created the 1st all wheel drive truck, and sold thousands to the Military, where they served in WW I. In 1918 the company was sold to Charles Nash, fresh from the presidency of General Motors. He sold Jeffrey's for a year or so before introducing the Nash that he designed. In 1950, Nash Motors introduced the first modern,successful, Compact car, and called it the Rambler.
Americans couldn't do it without immigrants and those in other countries who came up with inventions that helped our inventors. No one lives in a bubble, no man is an island, many of those inventors were the children of immigrants or immigrants themselves.
lasers, tv, air conditioner, harness nuclear energy, EVs, military submarine, drilling rigs, refrigerator, drones, video game console, cyclotron (cancer research)
Jacked-in means Online. Back then the only way to use the internet was with a dialup (56K Modem). Jacked-in was used to describe connecting through a phone jack.
An African American Frederick McKinley Jones invented portable refrigeration, which was instrumental in winning WW2 as we had a way to cool blood products to keep soldiers alive. This was definitely a revolutionary invention!!
The first artificial refrigeration device was invented by William Cullen in 1755, than Oliver Evans in 1805, then Michael Faraday in 1820, followed by another half dozen inventors. The African American inventor Frederick McKinley was late to the party with his 1938 truck refrigerator.
Edison was a master at promotion and coordinating research. A lot of his ideas were not his but ones he promoted, sponsored research into, (or maybe stole). But he was the best at marketing the new technologies and hiring other inventors to keep ahead in the industry.
Well....Germany invented the first practical automobile. So there is that. There are some dramatic movies about the history of Benz (and his wife) and the race that changed transportation that are very good entertainment.
The thing to keep in mind is, the reason America did a lot of this stuff is because the Founders setup a country that allowed people from around the world could come here and invent! You notice a lot of the inventors were came from various other countries... that's the beauty of the US.
@@frankworthen1065 To a degree. I often feel like Americans say "march to the beat of your own drum" and then when you do they sneer at you. Just my opine as a citizen. Except the Bay Area. When I lived there all rules were suspended and the wierdos ruled. I loved it.
@@reindeer7752 Pasteur was just the beginning from France. Most of today’s vaccines are produced and developed in America. There is no other source of vaccines in the world.
Because like many things in the video, it wasn't a US thing, perhaps? Some things are debatable, and so is the world. Who was the first to invent, who patented, etc.?
To see a young German man like yourself so excited about the good parts of America is so heartwarming and uplifting Thank you so much! Peace and blessings to you. The world needs a couple billion more people just like you, a German.
the first airplane is always a controversial topic, there were a lot of people trying to be first, and a lot of prototypes being tested. And arguably, there were others with powered flight that took off first. However, the Wright bros, were the first to have powered flight and controlled flight. They were the first to figure out the lift AND the steering.
That is why they are significant. The others who developed different forms of “flight” never created something that changed the world, like the Wright brothers did
All boils down to the "warped wing" system. The Wrights discovered that by building a wing and tail rudder that could be twisted slightly, they could control and redirect airflow over said components.
They spent years doing wind tunnel testing to understand the air flowing across and around the different parts of the plane, and their single control stick that turned the plane right by moving the stick to the right, and pulling back was to go up, was something no one else had.
It's noteworthy that the origin of the Internet was an intranet for the US nation security system for the Defense Department. They could have quick communication in the military nuclear system. It then became the Internet It was fortunate that there was no patent possible because government scientists created it, so public domain and so free.
An American inventor, Hedy Lamarr was a top actress during Hollywood's golden era and originally from Austria. She is less well known as a brilliant inventor. One of her inventions, with composer George Antheil, was a forerunner to today's WiFi, Bluetooth, and GPS technologies, and has led many to dub Lamarr the mother of WiFi.
There is an idea that Americans may have a genetic disposition toward creativity and drive. But isn't The US made up of people from all over the world? Sure but think about the type the distilation that occurred, especially in early America. Americans are the decendents of people who choose to leave their families and everything they knew, put up their wealth or sometimes their freedom through indentured servatude to afford a sea voyage of several months to land half a world away that often didn't speak their language. And from there most pressed farther into the wilderness battling nature and natives for a chance at carving out their own empire from the wilderness. That takes a certain kind of person.
There were a number of inventors working on making a lightbulb. But most were expensive or would burn out in minutes to hours and were impractical. Thomas made a bulb that would last years.
A really important invention that was overlooked is the TRANSISTOR. It replaced the vacuum tube and made microcomputers possible. A fun story. My late husband was a planetary scientist who got his PhD from CalTech in the late 1970"s. While a student, he rented an apartment from a little old lady who was totally unimpressed by CalTech and NASA. "Young man", she said, "I remember when the Wright brothers first flew their plane, in 1903!"
Fun fact: The first thing ever sold on the internet was weed lol. College students working on the internet sold some to another group doing the same thing at a different school.
The story of the invention of the airplane is an "American Dream" success story. Brothers Orville and Wilbur Wright had little or no scientific training. Mechanically talented, they built and repaired bicycles to earn a modest living. They consulted libraries for the latest research and soon understood the problems of heavier-than-air powered flight better than the perceived experts. In just four years they built several unpowered gliders and then what is believed to have been the first airplane.
4:48 - It's more amazing than that. The Apollo computer was less powerful than a basic calculator. The chip in your smartphone is a million times more powerful than a calculator. :)
Or how about CompuSeve? A precursor to AOL was MacLink which later turned into AOL. Just saw recently, the demolition of the AOL headquarters building in Virginia to make way for something else.
The early days of the consumer-accessible internet were "dirt road" as f***. BBS, Usenet, and Gopher were absolute clusterf***s until devs started to make user interfaces to serve as a sort of digital sherpa.
A lot of these inventions would've eventually been invented by someone else, I figure. It's just a matter of who got it to work first. In the US, we're encouraged to follow our dreams, dream big, that sorta thing. (As you mentioned.) This means many of us will take risks to invent stuff that folks in other countries might not be willing or able to take. Of course once we invent something, out it goes into the wider world to be modified and improved by folks from all different nations. It's kinda cool how that happens.
An often overlooked US invention... The standardized shipping container. The ones you see stacked up on massive cargo ships. For practical electricity production and distribution, that was Edison and Tesla. They had different ideas on how to do it, and were competitors. Tesla won the "current wars" with his AC system. Tesla also invented the electric induction motor, which is basically in everything that needs to move and uses electrical power. Tesla was a very interesting character... His ideas were way ahead of their time in many ways.
I watched a documentary about those early shipping containers and the guy who invented them. I don't recall the details, but it did mention how much less expensive it became to load a ship, it was multiples higher before those containers.
It's fascinating how many commonplace inventions have their origins in the US military. Among them are GPS, the Internet, and electronic computers in general.
They missed so much. DC and AC electric current. The first city in the world to be wired and have power. Turbines to generate power to power the grid. The grid. The transistor. Smart phones, working electric car. Most modern appliances. Rubber car wheels, nuclear power and weapons. The revolver. The self contained bullet, with repeatable firing, instead of having to front load each musket. Fiber optics, microwave, Velcro, bullet proof vest and windows Wifi Pencils, ink pens Paper clips, air conditioning Dish washer Vacuum cleaner The first interste system. Cotton Gin Hydro electric Computer coding Asphalt roads Plastic Refining crude oil into gasoline and many other products from crude oil. Polyester Styrofoam Q tips Plastic packaging Carbonated soda Fastfood Embossed signs Neon lights Skyscrapers Steel framework Acrylic Plexiglas Modern sewage treatment plants Modern national water filtration Heart transplant Artificial sweeteners Acetaminophen Ibuprofen Insulin Syringes (A huge amount of the medicines, surgical procedures Florescent lights Transformers Kerosene Xylene Lacquer Lauquer paint Modern democracy. NO MONARCHY. 2 party system 3 branches of government that (aren't supposed to) are completely independent of each other. Freedom of speech as absolute. The right to bear and own guns Machine guns Ceramic ..... That's just for starters... Lol😅 Oh, the Columbine. One of the most significant invention ever. Without it, the world would have starved. It breaks my heart to see all the young American kids knowing zero about this country and it's achievements. Their heads are made of McDonalds and video games. They can't point to the UK , or N America on a map. Nothing that they believe in is based on fact. It's why half our nation believes in Marxism, censorship and ,... they have nothing left that is rooted in reality. I don't think the world will be seeing the incredible inventions that we are known for. 99% of them came from white men. And, we're the enemy now.... ✌️
Wow, you're the first European reactor I've seen that understands the reason so many things are invented/created here in America. We let the free thinkers.....think. And we pay them well to think up new things. And then we hire young free thinkers and we pay them to think up even newer shit.
@@binxbollingBritain? No. The ME 262 was the first functional combat jet, developed by Nazi Germany at the tail end of WWII. Rockets in this sense means fuel propelled and leading to extra terrestrial exploration.
I wish I'd asked my grandmother about flight. She was born at the beginning of flight, and lived long past the moon landings. How crazy is that? Less than 100 years. I have started asking my parents about important events that happened and how they reacted, or how was the atmosphere like (the *ssasination of JFK, for example). They said the streets were empty, as everyone was glued to their TV or radio. Edit to add: It's generally thought that the greatest invention was the printing press. So I'll give Germany a hat tip for Gutenberg.
My Grandmother was born in 1906. She liked to tell the story of when she was young radio had just been invented. She told her mother some day we'd not just be able to listen to people on the radio we'd be able to see them too. Her mother smacked her in the head with her slipper and told her not to say such crazy things.
Gutenberg was from Alsace (Avery German part of France across the Rhine from Germany). During WWI my grandfather Anglicized our last name and told his offspring they were Alsatian even though they came from a small town in Germany directly across from Alsace.
Yea, info tech is it's own cagegory. alphabet/writing printing press electronic media Internet -with each major step incorporating the others. But if we don't archive properly, the last two will be the first that doesn't preserve the benefit of the first: the TIME BINDING preservation of knowledge.
Electricity is actually electromagnetic force I think first demonstrated by Michael Faraday. Commercial electricity started as DC or direct current first used by Edison . The more efficient type used today is AC alternating current championed by Italian American Nicholi Tesla. AC became the standard after the 1893 Chicago exposition. Financed by Westinghouse.
Both forms have advantages and disadvantages. Long term, high voltage transmission is better done with AC because simple transformers can up a voltage for long distances (low voltage/high current suffers greatly over long distances, so raising the voltage/lowering the current cut the heat loss over every inch of transmission lines). Power is current (I is used) times voltage (P=IxV) so the same power... but heat loss is I^2xR (resistance), so if you go out to your local transmission line, cut the voltage in half and doubled the current, the wire resistance remains the same, that current is squared (multiplied by itself), so the heat lost is huge. Both men were geniuses. Tesla was more of a physicist, Edison more of an engineer (making the electricity do things like light bulbs, which work better with DC by the way). All electronics are DC powered. Laptops use DC power (yes, you plug their power supplies into the wall, but the voltage going to the laptop is DC). Inside a tower computer is a power supply that takes the AC and transforms it into various DC voltages. USB ports use 5 volts DC.
Glad you had the opportunity to see it! People seem to forget that Dayton was also the birthplace of pull tabs, ice trays, the electric self-starter, the cash register, AND the Boolean search engine. Dayton did an awful lot of dirty work for the world in the early to mid 20th century.
I agree about Da Vinci…he was really ahead of his time!!!! I think Galileo’s telescope was also amazing! Plus Isaac Newton and gravity and one can go on and on!
As for the "discovery" and practical application of electricity, recommended viewing BBC series here on RU-vid: "Shock and Awe - The Story of Electricity" with Jim Al-Khalili. Prerequisites for the Personal Computer and the Internet: 1. Transistor - Bell Telephone Labs, Murray Hills, New Jersey. 2. Integrated Circuit - Texas Instruments Dallas Texas, 3. Microprocessor - Intel Santa Clara California
3rd President under the Constitution, People forget the Presidents with one year terms before Washington took office in 1789 under the new Constitution. I prefer to start with John Hancock who was President at the signing of the Declaration of Independence as that was when the US was born. The powers were closer to our VP now and little authority in the early executive unless congress was not in session.
@Cricket2731 - I was replying to the comment that John Hancock was president. If you knew America history, you would know what the Continental Congress was and would have understood. But I didn't notice I forgot to use @ and the name of the person I was replying to, so my bad on that.
The funny thing is most countries still consider themselves the inventors of things even if they are working in the US at a college or US owned company. Even those things that are not are usually based on US designs. So much of Russia's and China's military technology is based on US technology it is ridiculous. All the CPU and GPUs. even ARM, are designed by the US. They are often manufactured all over the world though, but usually on machines made in the US or in Europe. Most countries get a lot of their wealth do to trade with the US. China would be nothing without the US letting them into the WTO. See 89% of the world trades with US dollars. The EU is could handle trade internally without the US dollar, but most countries could not. China's currency is near worthless outside of China. And the funny thing is everybody points out how bad the US public school system is, but most of the best colleges in the world are in the US. There are a few good ones in the US, but countries like China export huge amounts of students all over the world and the US is probably the largest destination. Of course only the wealthy can send their children abroad and it might be hard to get them back, but that is a different topic. Most manufacturing technologies were created in the US. Companies like Ford and even the government strove to get VERY precise standards for weights, temps, pressures, and lengths. This greatly improved standardization and is one of the reasons why the US manufacturing was so strong. They could produce not only good engines, but they could produce replacement parts for these engines so they could be serviced cheaply. Ford mastered the assembly line and was able to bring a car to the average person in the US for a fraction of what they used to cost. After WWII this really helped the US grow and people became wealthier. Things like appliances and electronics filled the homes while most of the world had none of this, or if they did it was only in a few cities (look at Russia, China, or India still). Europe knew they had to copy the US and it has done them well. The US is the 3rd largest population and 3 largest land mass. It is VERY rich in natural resources and has a lot of money. And the Apollo computer was likely less powerful than a calculator from the late 80s. Mores law is a crazy thing and has sort of still held true that computer power will double every 18 months. My first real computer was a 386 SX-25 That is 25Mhz. Most computers are not only more efficient and have 4-16 cores, but they run at 3-5Ghz. That is about 200x faster. Storage is even more crazy. my computer had a 20MB hard drive. I have a 2TB NVME drive in my computer now. Not only is it WAY faster and smaller but it is 100,000x more storage. Heck the original Game Boy was like 100x faster than the Apollo computers. The US also designs a lot of medications, yet technology makes it easy to reverse engineer chemical compounds, so they are typically exported or licensed to other countries for FAR cheaper. It is the US citizens that pay for all the research.
My Father Major Harry Paden Burchett , was a forerunner in Mapmaking and especially in Photogrammetric Engineering, I won't get into a Doctoral dissertation, but ever use GPS ? My Father as International Operations /Relations officer for the USA Defense Mapping Agency, in the late 60ts to 70ts , was in charge of proofing the accuracy of the GPS , He also held a NATO COSMIC security clearance, which basically means ,he had access to all information he needed to do for his job , from all Intelligence sources . To this day you can find some pics and references online but in depth details are non-existent. Just a bit of family history .Oh and when he was .V.P.of Overseas Operations for Areo Service Corporation in the early 1960ts , They ( as the foremost Photogrametric Engineers in the world ) Flew B-17S and B-25s and mapped the whole Arabian peninsula, for ARAMCO, and the Saudi Government, an interesting man.thanks for the vids...
so to answer your question benjamin Franklin is credited with its discovery Tomas Edison is credited with harnessing DC current (mostly used in batteries) and Nikola Tesla is credited with AC current (mostly used for power lines) [all American]. along the way there are a bunch of other people who are credited with discovering bits and pieces including a German name Heinrich Herz who discovery electromagnetic waves and who the unit of frequency is named after bonus world changing invention on the horizon: the american company SpaceX had its first soft land of its Spaceship program which if the numbers are true will take the cost of puting 1lb of stuff into space from about $4000 to about $200
When Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier in 1947, Orville Wright was still alive. Five years later the first commercial jet aircraft took flight. Aircraft development was supersonic.
Well, we also have well over 300 million people! I also think of Germany and Israel when I think of as inventing things. Thanks for your reaction videos. It feels good to hear nice things about our country from people in other countries instead of “ugly American “ remarks.
Oil wells have been around for a long time. The brake through that started the modern oil industry such as Chevron, Exxon, and many others started at Spindeltop near Houston Texas on Jan 10, 1901. It was the first “gusher.” At one point producing 100k barrels daily. This brake through can be argued in what started the modern era of the Industrial Revolution. Texas itself has a full and rich history as being the only independent country that joined the United States in December 1845. Ya’ll like and subscribe like I did when I came across this vid. On a personal note in Elementary school we had to memorize a song for a school play that that named many inventors from the US. I still remember much of it to this day. It had several verses but the first one went something like this: It took Bell to make the telephone ring, and Edison to light up the way. Robert Fulton in the steam boat to chug chug down the bay. So when your spelling the word America don’t forget to dot the “i” for the inventors.
Sounds just like something a Texan would say. Self aggrandizing, and completely wrong. The first modern oil well was drilled in Poland in 1854, and the first in the United States was drilled at Titusville Pennsylvania in 1859.
The printing press is in my opinion the single greatest invention of all time . Making information available to more people & putting knowledge into the correct mind that could put it to use .
There are many inventions that are disputed as the first. Brazil claims it made the first controlled flight. The telephone is another. The funny thing about the light bulb is that if it were not invented then the automobile may not be as popular. Kerosene was the main way to light up houses and streets. The discarded offshoot when making Kerosene was gasoline. They through it away. Diesel was already around but expensive to make. Gasoline was being thrown away so the potential profit was almost 100%.
My first class in computers took us ages to type into punch cards the series of holes that the scanner/reader could translate into programming. The Disks for the computer were bigger than a dinner plate. The computer at the University where we High School kids got to go stood like 8 to 10 feet tall and took up an entire room.
Assembly line was made famous by Henry Ford. During WW II there was an assembly plant at Willow Run, where they assembled one complete bomber jet every hour. At the end of the assembly line, a flight crew waited for each plane. Once each plane was completed, the flight crew got into the plane, flew it in a test circle, then flew off to Europe. My uncle worked for Ford during WW II. He was one of the engineers who developed the B29 bomber.
Benjamin Franklin is the one who discovered electrictricity. Telsa and Edison were the ones who made us anle to use it. Tesla is responsible for Alternating current and Edison was responsible for Direct Current. Thus , you get AC/DC lol. Tesla's alternating current won the battle of the electricity wars. Because the AC traveled farther than DC and it was actually safer. I hope that helps❤ Love your videos!❤
Tesla also invented a light bulb and light bulb socket that was more efficient than the Edison bulb for the 1893 World's Fair. He did it because Edison refused to sell the GE Bulbs to Tesla's backer, Westinghouse, because they bid to light the fair for only $400K using Tesla's new induction motor to power the event, losing GE the bid.
Fun fact, the time between now and when the B-52 first entered service is longer than between when the Wright brother's plane first flew and the B-52 first entered service, let that sink in for a moment on how fast aircraft technology advanced between then and now
America is still a global invention engine, however, most is coming out of three regions, San Francisco, Boston, and New York. Three cities regions carry the country.
The lightning rod is probably Benjamin Franklin's most underrated invention(it should be noted that there is debate over whether or not an invention by Prokop Divis one year earlier can be considered a lightning rod[according to Wikipedia]).
The skyscraper was invented in Chicago. The sports of baseball, American football and basketball were invented in the US. Movies. The record player. Jazz, blues, rock. Electric guitars. Edison and Tesla in the US both developed electric power. Cell phones.
These never mention the microchip, which I think is #1 on the list (Jack Kilby at TI and Robert Noyce at Intel, co-inventors). You’d have no Internet without that. Though closely related is the discrete transistor (Bell Labs) and the microprocessor (Intel). TI’s Kilby also invented the handheld calculator. Hard to claim invention of the computer, it really depends how you define it, but the British and a guy in Germany are in on that debate too, as well as Americans Atanasoff and Eckert & Mauchly.
4:45 no the narrator says “thanks to the microprocessor…”. Not the same thing, I’m talking about the IC chip invented in 1958. The microprocessor came later in about 1972. And they don’t even say the microprocessor was a US invention either, they just mention its existence.
Chris, if you like this topic a great book / TV documentary from PBS (here in the United States) is called "How We Got to Now" by Steven Johnson. It looks at how different inventions and breakthroughs build on each other. He looks at six areas (1. Clean 2. Time 3. Glass 4. Light 5. Sound 6. Cold). In the book he talks in the Introduction about Charles Babbage who is the first "modern" person to invent a computer, but he was ahead of his time (Note: I say modern as the Antikythera mechanism was an ancient computer discovered off the coast of Greece at the turn of the 20th century). You were talking about the internet, computers, and electricity. Each had to build on something from the past. The internet has connections back to the telegraph and with Cyrus Field and the laying of the first transatlantic cable in the 1850s and 1860s. Without that first telegraph line being put down there would be no "world wide web." ARPANET which they talked about (per-curser to Internet) was build out of the Cold War and communication issues. All different things that build on one another.
Electricity had been experimented with before. And, of course everybody knew about lightning. Franklin's contribution was demonstrating that they were the same phenomenon.
I'm happy they mentioned Ransom Eli Olds as the creator of the assembly line. The Olds Motor Vehicle Company was founded in 1897, pre-dating the American "Big Three": General Motors, Ford Motor Company and the Chrysler Corporation (along with God only knows how many other car companies). GM dissolved Oldsmobile 20 years ago, because that's how you honor a century old legacy. I'm not bitter.
Edward Kingsford, timber industry, supplied Ford with wood for cars, and ran the factory. Edison designed the factory. Ford and Kingsford were related by marriage. Ford made a better and cleaner briquette and of course marketable. The idea occurred to a chemist at the University of Oregon, Orrin Stafford, before that, but his mix had tar in it. Maybe it wasn't for cooking.
...........enjoying your videos.....however, as I have the INTERNET as the 2nd most important invention of mankind....................the #1 spot MUST go to Edison for the 'discovery' of how to tame electricity..................remember, without electricity............none of what followed would have 'been there'.
The first airplane flight was actually in Fairfield connecticut on August 14th 1901 by Gustav Whitehead. A German immigrant. The 2nd flight was later the same day in Stratford Connecticut.😮
