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Did Thomas Edison actually invent the lightbulb? Turns out, there's more to the story than what you thought you knew! Every great, world-changing invention is the culmination of efforts by dozens or hundreds of people, spanning decades or centuries-and sometimes the truth is a little complicated! Join Hank Green for a fun new episode of SciShow, where we'll uncover some hidden secrets behind 10 famous inventions! Let's go!
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@donesitackacom 8 лет назад

"standing on the shoulders of giants" damn, that gets me every time

@WolfieDMinecraft 8 лет назад

+ONI OFFICER So damn deep.

@matthewmccloy4283 8 лет назад

My turn: 'Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light'.

@Leo-hk6qg 8 лет назад

+Friedrich Nietzsche "There is nothing in the desert and no man needs nothing."

@ionlymadethistoleavecoment1723 8 лет назад

"I'm the giant you'd have stood on if you could stand! I'll give you brief history of pain with the back of my hand."

@ofi1831 8 лет назад

+Ionlymadethistoleavecoments break the Giants knee that we are standing on !

@pedrovb17 8 лет назад

No mention of Santos Dumont on number 8? Poor guy, he did a lot for aviation

@NanZingrone 8 лет назад

I started with DrDos and Geoworks, it's big claim to find was being the first GUI that also allowed you to multitask between a suite of programs that were basically a writer, a database, and a spreadsheet, and yes, I could go grab a cup of coffee while I was waiting for the key combination to actually bring up the other program. Loved it, avoided Windows until 3.0 because of it.

@seanm7445 8 лет назад

Moral of the story: Your marketing ability is everything.

@bartz0rt928 8 лет назад

+Sean M That, and finding a practical solution to an existing problem, based on the technology and science available.

@nolanwestrich2602 6 лет назад

What? But... Tesla was nothing?

@maxxiang8746 5 лет назад

@@nolanwestrich2602 umm they are saying that marketing stuff is important, and Tesla's inventions wernt as famous because he didnt really care about money, and so he didnt market them as much.

@BertGrink 7 лет назад

As Edison is quoted as having said "Invention is 1% inspirations and 99% transpiration" but he forgot to say "it also helps if you can steal someone else's inventions"

@ryanm7263 8 лет назад

So basically the people who actually invent things are forgotten while the people who commercialize those things get all the credit?

@benderrodriquez 8 лет назад

Capitalism rocks!

@massimookissed1023 8 лет назад

RU-vid was invented in 312 BC by Lolcatzforezza XXIV of Persia, but the technology didn't exist, and the idea didn't catch on.

@PajamaMan44 8 лет назад

+Ryan MacFarlane No, basically if you change goal posts then you can say other people actually invented things. Example: 8:45 they try saying it was actually Ferdinand Braun, that invented television because he invented the cathode ray tube, a part of early television. But using that logic you can say Braun actually didn't invent the cathode ray tube, I mean like, he didn't invent glass did he? Or electricity, etc. etc. I understand the point the video is making though, that we build upon what was built before us; that is obvious and something special about our species, but you (as in you too, random RU-vid viewer wanting to make a similar comment as the OP) should not misunderstand the point of the video and try to make it as some negative social commentary like sarcastically saying "Capitalism rocks!" as though you are making some profound point about the modern era. Instead, maybe you should try increasing your understanding of the world as a whole instead of what your favorite author or your friend group or some RU-vid content creator tells you. Fucking people, I swear.

@theleafthinker3383 8 лет назад

+Massimo O'Kissed Lolcatzforezza XXIV of Persia only recently got acknowledgement after they found a prototype that dated back to the days of Lolcatzforezza XXIV and they assumed it must have been him.

@nioxic77 8 лет назад

+Ryan MacFarlane Well if you started selling something that could make your rich... would you then start saying "Hey i'm just selling what i learned from that guy over there...?" Ever seen the simpsons episode "Flaming Moe's" ?

@youmaycallmeken 8 лет назад

I'd love to see a "Part 2" a "Part 3" and perhaps a few more. This is an interesting topic and there's much more to be said.

@blackoak4978 8 лет назад

I live in Canada. Ford is never credited with inventing the car. He is credited with the development of the assembly line, on the industrial side, and with recognizing the potential of employees as customers, on the economic side. Inventing the car is almost irrelevant in comparison to those two developments.

@austinhernandez2716 6 лет назад

Ken Oakleaf I've never heard of Ford being credited an an inventor and I live in the US

@johnturner4400 5 лет назад

Ken Oakleaf. Did you actually watch the video!

@eniklisnihm4565 5 лет назад

He also invented the week end, so his employees could go out and spend there money! hopefully on a ford car :P

@bearcatben4762 5 лет назад

he didn't invent the assembly line either

@Perforated611 5 лет назад

@@bearcatben4762 no, he just applied it to the industrial revolution, actually in part contributing to the industrial revolution.

@Renan290692 8 лет назад

The Wright Brothers... Anyone have even heard about Santos Dumont ? The brazilian guy who invented the wrist clock ? He was the first man to invent a plane that flew by itself, in october of 1906 in Paris. The wright plane needed a push to get the speed, but not the Dumont plane.

@bartz0rt928 8 лет назад

+Renan Coutinho Dumont was inspired by the Wrights. His plane was better and broke records set by Orville and Wilbur, but it came shortly later. So they didn't get the credit by improving his designs (which is what this video is about).

@fep_ptcp883 8 лет назад

+Bart Stikkers nevertheless, Dumont's contribution to aviation was huge. He wanted everyone to have a personal airplane (like people have cars today), then he made public his know-how. Amazing guy

@bartz0rt928 8 лет назад

Maybe he can get his own scishow video?

@jimdale6001 8 лет назад

Look up Lawrence Hargrave

@nilobortolotti7065 8 лет назад

Dumont invented the ailerons, and there is quite a debate about the timing with the Wright brothers. Needless to said, he didn't have the capitalist view of his invention, wanted to share his knowledge. Here is Seattle WA, museum of flight which is based on original factory of Boeing, has a short but fair highlight of the contributions of Dumont to the invention and evolution of flight. Simply ignoring his existance is pure ignorance.

@victoriajohnson9374 8 лет назад

"They worked pretty well, except when they didn't" haha I love this guy😂😂

@JunSian1001 8 лет назад

I am so happy to hear one of my favorite quotes: "If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants" - Sir Isaac Newton (1676) This quote encouraged me to read more, to listen carefully and to understand in deeper details.

@lprccac220 8 лет назад

Dear SciShow: Please correct yourselves. The so-called airplane of the Wright brothers required a catapult to launch it into flight. It was Santos Dumont who first made an airplane that could take off and fly on its own power.

@255ad 8 лет назад

my fellow Brits are going to be pissed you talked about the invention of television without even mentioning John Logie Baird

@massimookissed1023 8 лет назад

Och aye !

@danielsullivan87 8 лет назад

Yeah... this is a pretty damn large omission on their part. How could they miss him? (Australian here and it's definitely what we learn in school. Never even heard of the guy they're talking about)

@yozzmatron 8 лет назад

+Edward Nutt the man who actually invented the telly

@tobitoes1052 8 лет назад

+Edward Nutt He Invented television. The one with the spinning wheel thing, before the other guy did his one

@nocturne9257 8 лет назад

+Edward Nutt He invented the mechanical TV.

@templariclegion2826 7 лет назад

I was never taught in school that Ford invented the automobile, I was always taught that he created the first automobile assembly line.

@janderson8401 4 года назад

Even that isn’t quite right. Oldsmobiles were produced an an assembly line before Fords were. What Ford did was improve the process to the point that other auto makers had to adopt it as well.

@robv.o.1777 4 года назад

Ford perfected the assembly line.

@daniellee3831 4 года назад

Even in Michigan I know people who believe he invented the automobile 🤦‍♂️

@larryscott3982 4 года назад

And I learnt that French gunsmith Honoré LeBlanc had pioneered “assembly line” by making gun parts identical and in batches. Then the weapons could ‘assembled’ in sequence. And pioneering is still uses past experience by others. It’s by degree.

@Suedocode 8 лет назад

10:19 "... that the GUI became the universal way that we interact with computers." As an avid Linux and vim user, I beg to differ.

@DogmaFaucet 8 лет назад

Safety Break? Safety Brake. Break=owie, brake=stop

@beejc1128 4 года назад

Inventing something takes lots of skill and knowledge. However, bringing something to the market with specific practical uses takes a whole set of other skills. It doesn't take away from who invented it but there is something to be said about a person who can take an invention and apply it to a everyday need and make it marketable.

@pete275 8 лет назад

I was hoping they'd mention Steve Jobs, who is credited with inventing pretty much every aspect of modern life and in fact he invented jack shit

@user-vf3cb7vk8z 8 лет назад

Didn't Steve Jobs invent tampons

@andrewpark7345 8 лет назад

Steve jobs really didn't invent anything after Steve wozniak left apple. He mostly just took parts that already existed and put them together to create new devices, not really an invention

@__malte 8 лет назад

+Andrew Park 'taking parts that already exist and putting them together in new ways' comes actually quite close to the definition of inventing

@Dr.Spatula 8 лет назад

+Andrew Park Steve Jobs actually invented nothing. He knew how to make things pretty and anything he thought of he had Woz make it. Never anything himself.

@jumpstart8159 8 лет назад

Doesn't matter. He shape the modern world. He deserve credit.

@craigcorson3036 4 года назад

4:18 "Otis invented the safety break" Nope. Otis invented the safety BRAKE.

@Jaws10214 4 года назад

On the pipeline, safety breaks are just as important as safety brakes.

@craigcorson3036 4 года назад

@@Jaws10214 There are safety brakes on pipelines?

@Jaws10214 4 года назад

@@craigcorson3036 lol, I was all drunk last night when I posted that! I meant safety brakes on elevators are as important as safety breaks on the line.

@craigcorson3036 4 года назад

@@Jaws10214 Ooookay! That makes much more sense. Don't know if you suffer from hangovers, but I know a very effective preventative. Before you go to sleep after a night of drinking, drink a big glass of water, and take an aspirin or two.

@Jaws10214 4 года назад

@@craigcorson3036 lol, yup. Been doing that for years. But switched to Tylenol because the wifey says the ronavirus likes Aspirin or something.. iunno lol

@ryandean3162 8 лет назад

Good to see Douglas Engelbart get some love. Of course, it's not just the GUI he's responsible for. His presentation now known as the "Mother of All Demos" from 1968 (available in full here on RU-vid) included practical demonstrations for the first time of the mouse, hypertext with links, video conferencing, word processing, version control with collaborative document editing, and bitmapped graphics, and much more, along with the GUI stuff like a windowing system and shortcuts and what not. He and his team from Menlo Park are basically responsible for the entire world of modern computing as we know it, including the world wide web.

@12Rman21 8 лет назад

but hey, Hertz got a unit, so thats pretty cool.

@neilisbored2177 7 лет назад

It would hertz otherwise

@kf4ung 8 лет назад

Progression is a collective effort, but there are those who see what is there and envision what might be, and then using knowledge from others make leaps forward for all of us. Amazing video and thanks SciShow for reminding me of these thinkers and tinkers.

@pnkflyd66 8 лет назад

Who invented the invention?

@DirtMankee 8 лет назад

Hmmm... You are a genius you just invented a question

@ThomasPlaysTheGames 8 лет назад

+pnkflyd66 WHAP says agriculture.

@massimookissed1023 8 лет назад

That one furry dude who picked up the large bone that was laying in front of the monolith.

@Leo-pw3kf 8 лет назад

+pnkflyd66 Jaden? Is that you?

@locksource1607 8 лет назад

God.

@amcghie7 8 лет назад

John Logie Baird had a working television system years before Farnsworth also

@dominicbruce7558 8 лет назад

Scotland is the best for inventions: Telephone Bicycle Raincoat LED lights Penicillin Golf Television

@HRHtheDude 4 года назад

LED is Soviet

@dominicbruce7558 4 года назад

Alfa&Omega 00000 Alexander Graham Bell

@OccultReality 4 года назад

scotch egg

@666Tomato666 8 лет назад

Props for recognition of Engelbart! Also, go and watch The Mother of All Demos.They achieved with 1960's technology what we still haven't entirely figured out (teleconferencing).

@ilghiz 8 лет назад

Ford's never been credited for inventing cars. He's rather known for inventing the conveyor. However, he didn't even invent the conveyor but was the first to use it commercially on such a large scale.

@mickles1975 8 лет назад

safety break? Not brake?

@ze_or 8 лет назад

it is break not brake

@ze_or 8 лет назад

+Tilaron i searched it up and ye ur right.... i never knew that in my entire 13 years

@colmryan9289 8 лет назад

Safety's broken! Hide your kids, hide your wife and hide your husbands, cause nobody's safe anymore!

@someoneinthecrowd4313 8 лет назад

+ze_or I hope English isn't your first language, because I learned that in 3rd grade

@ze_or 8 лет назад

Someone In The Crowd my first language is Japanese

@ten1851 7 лет назад

why did the man drive his mercedes into a tree? he wanted to know if his mercedes bends

@brianpetersen3429 7 лет назад

A valuable lesson in how humanity tries to oversimplify the complex world by assigning credit to a single individual... at the expense of ignoring all the precursors required for success. It plays into the view of a "strongman" solution to problems.... something that haunts us to this day.

@cello1993 8 лет назад

*8) Powered Flight -* Again, no mention of Santos Dumont. Disappointed in your research SciShow.

@96msd 8 лет назад

+CelloRockz brazilians cry every time lol

@cello1993 8 лет назад

+Mathias Santos Certainly do. SciShow has a global audience and limiting information or research to the United States or some European countries feels neglecting of a large part of their viewer base.

@96msd 8 лет назад

CelloRockz I know me too and I agree w/ u :,( Santos Dumont wasn't the first to show a working airplane, however he was the first to build a independent airplane which it took off by itself and had wheels, so officially it was considered the first by these standards but practically it wasn't

@cello1993 8 лет назад

***** Do not take your short-sighted opinions as veridical facts, my friend.

@bobohm21 8 лет назад

+CelloRockz Santos Dumont's inventions involving heavier than air craft came after the Wright Brothers and that is not the point of this video. It's meant to point out the people that came before the people who actually got the credit. Albert Santos-Dumont, while he is one of the greats of aviation, would not be appropriate to mention as a person that the Wright Brothers built their invention on. Alberto built his heavier than air craft using info from the Wrights.

@Janesprutget 8 лет назад

This is the thing with innorvation. For 99% of the time it's just someone improving something else until suddenly we got a new thing. I recommend watching "Everything is a Remix". It's about innovation and also how a lot of movie scenes are the exact same

@alpine1600s 8 лет назад

Microsoft has never been misconceived with pioneering the GUI. They didn't even invent DOS.

@Rickmakes 8 лет назад

Yeah. I thought that was weird. Windows may have brought the GUI to business machines but Macs (with their GUI) were well established in education and publishing for years before Microsoft's GUI caught on.

@bigbenhebdomadarius6252 8 лет назад

+Sebastian m (alpine1600s) I thought everyone knew that the Apple/Windows GUI was developed by Xerox at its Palo Alto Research Center under contract to DARPA. It was part of DARPA's development of the Internet. The reason that both Apple and Microsoft were able to use this GUI is that, because it was developed under government contract, Xerox was not allowed to patent or copyright it.

@ihtfp69 8 лет назад

+BigBen Hebdomadarius shhh ... some Brit invented the Internet. 😉

@alpine1600s 8 лет назад

+John Johnson Al Gore is British!?

@JimCullen 8 лет назад

+Sebastian m (alpine1600s) yeah I don't think anyone thinks Microsoft invented the GUI. The Apple LISA (and later Macintosh) was the first major product to be released with one, but most people who care at all about technology are familiar with Xerox PARC's invention and the deal Apple had with them to allow them to use the technology.

@im.empimp 6 лет назад

Family lore has it that one of my great uncles helped the Wright Brothers. As the tale goes, he suffered from extreme seasonal depression and would spend winters couch-surfing, but come spring time he'd start talking about having to go down to North Carolina to help some brothers build a flying machine and shortly after that he'd disappear. Come fall, he'd return will tales of that summer's adventures with the brothers and the flying machine. Of course, at the time, everyone thought he was just crazy.

@peterwilliamson5953 8 лет назад

John Logie Baird invented television 1926 is it disqualified for not having a valve , pretty flimsy

@OptimusPhillip 8 лет назад

I think I heard that Edison's greatest contribution to the lightbulb was the screwy bit at the base, which was used not just for lightbulbs, but for every electronic appliance at the time because modern plugs weren't a thing.

@adcurtin 8 лет назад

BAH! Otis invented a safety BRAKE, not a safety BREAK…

@danp6897 4 года назад

Funny fact, that "shoulders of giants" quote is an ancient classical saying thar is most commonly attributed to Sir Isaac Newton, and was said by him during a meeting of the royal society as a an insult to his predecessor in the field of optics. Robert Hook, who was a distinctly short fellow.

@DonniesBlah 8 лет назад

Shame.. Nikola Tesla deserves more praise! :D

@Whitbypoppers 5 лет назад

The original Graphical User Interface (GUI) is, in fact the musical keyboard, that was used to play organs, harpsichords, and eventually pianos. No other musical instrument had the organization of musical scales so visibly manifested.

@michelle2536 8 лет назад

Isn't "standing on the shoulder of giants" a reference to Sir Isaac Newton??

@bigbenhebdomadarius6252 8 лет назад

+Michelle Ding (MDberryWinkle) That was the phrase he used, yes.

@888SpinR 8 лет назад

+BigBen Hebdomadarius Albeit not in the same context as Newton, if my sources are correct.

@reasonnottheneed 8 лет назад

+888SpinR "If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants" Pretty close

@masmantour 8 лет назад

He used the phrase, but as dig at his rival Leibniz.

@mikearcher9390 5 лет назад

among others, it isn't on the shoulder of GIANT.

@ericvilas 8 лет назад

And yet... there's something about the idea of "This person did EVERYTHING and they deserve ALL THE CREDIT!" that just sticks in your mind. It's something you _want_ to believe. It's something you want to strive towards. Because, to our minds, if everybody's an inventor... no one is.

@mistformsquirrel 8 лет назад

"On the shoulders of giants" as the metaphor goes. That's pretty much human history in a nutshell - all our innovation and technology, be it electronic, linguistic, artistic or otherwise, it's all preceded by breakthroughs from those that came before.

@MrNeocortex 8 лет назад

+mistformsquirrel Did you know that the full version "If I have seen further, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants" is a quote by Sir Isaac Newton?

@mistformsquirrel 8 лет назад

I've heard it as a quote from many possible sources actually - but regardless of who originated it, it's a fabulously useful and accurate statement.

@lubey111 8 лет назад

+ILikeHotCurrys But Newton didn't actually invent any of the words or letters in that sentence, his contribution was to combine them in a memorable way. Also there were probably others who expressed a similar concept before him.

@MultiFredstar 8 лет назад

Thank you for yet another great vid! i feel like adding, that the steam engine had already been described and designed by Hero of Alexandria during roman times - but the idea and capacity of the invention was (according to some historians) neglected due to the present slave economy.

@nblade66 8 лет назад

Of course inventions can happen in a vacuum. Just invent something while in a vacuum. Problem solved. Hi-fives all 'round.

@Beryllahawk 8 лет назад

For those pointing out more shows that mentioned these: go watch the excellent series Secret Life of Machines. Tim Hunkin does as good a job as Hank on the history of the machines he discusses :D

@omegasrevenge 8 лет назад

"Strokes of genius never happen in a vacuum." I guess Newton invented the Calculus by drawing those ideas from.... himself.

@nekotamo5154 6 лет назад

And the math taught to him by his teachers that helped him make the leap was made by... older thinkers.

@itarry4 4 года назад

Newton even admitted he wouldn't have invented anything without the work of others. Its supposedly his saying that's "standing on the shoulders of giants" referring to the fact he was just building on what others had done.

@freedomfighter0011 8 лет назад

I like this vid because it proves that, if you can think of something new, usually somebody already has thought about it too, and that no invention, at least in the modern era, is ever completed by 1 person. There are many brilliant people in this world and it always amazes me what new thing will be discovered or invented tomorrow, truly amazing.

@raysills 8 лет назад

Otis invented the "safety break"?? Should that not be the "safety brake"?? Homophones, to be sure, but different nouns.

@derfelkardan 7 лет назад

Otis invented safety... Then he had a break

@calamusgladiofortior2814 5 лет назад

Clearly army deserters invented the safety break. "Man this whole war thing is getting dangerous, I'm taking a break."

@limerence8365 4 года назад

Of course Eddison took credit for inventing something, patenting it, making history believe he was the sole inventory, got an inspirational quote credited to him and got stinking rich. He did that a lot.

@GermansEagle 8 лет назад

Santos Dumont created the first airplane, not the wright brothers, why did you not mention this??? Even though you researched so well in the lightbulb invention...

@bobohm21 8 лет назад

+German Eagle Santos'Dumonts first flight of a heavier than air craft came in 1906 and Wright Brothers flew in 1903. How is that before the Wrights? The first fixed wing aircraft to fly was a glider and the first man-carrying glider flew in 1853 and that was George Cayley's design. Again, way before Santos-Dumont flew anything.

@sharlesdaviskendy2391 8 лет назад

+Robert Ohm Santos Dumont flew around Paris in full view of everyone. The plane rose to almost 200 feet under its own power and landed. Wright brothers released edited footage of them launching a glider with a catapult. The edited flight lasts about a minute and it never gains altitude after launch. The airplane they used was damaged in the flight by a gust of wind and never flew again.

@qoaa 8 лет назад

+Sharles Davis Kendy Wright's did not use glider, it's in RU-vid it's has an engine and climbs

@stevie-ray2020 8 лет назад

It wasn't Dumont who flew the first aeroplane but Gustave Whitehead, a German immigrant American who based his design on the work of various other inventors who willingly shared their ideas! The Wright brothers actually lied about going to see Whitehead's plane so they could measure it and steal any ideas from it as Gustave also designed the engines that powered his monoplane that flew two years prior to the Wright's biplane! Plenty of Lincoln internet that's backed up by contemporary sources back then!

@ln2740 8 лет назад

wierdly, this made me feel better about life. nice to know that you dont have to do something astronomical to be a useful character in history

@Fellinline 8 лет назад

Ahahah. In the UK we learn about different people being the inventors of different things. Like Logie Baird inventing the TV.

@conduit64 8 лет назад

+Daniel H He was one of the inventors of the mechanical television, a very different beast from the CRT electronic device that ultimately came to be known as the "TV". So saying that Logie Baird invented the TV is actually extremely misleading.

@cnawan 8 лет назад

+Daniel H And here in NZ we have Richard Pearse, who was flying his powered aeroplane into gorse hedges at about the same time as the Wright brothers. I've heard of a Czech guy doing similar too.

@conduit64 8 лет назад

cnawan There were lots of people around the world who were *failing* at flying around the time of the Wright brothers. ;)

@cnawan 8 лет назад

I meant to imply he succeeded at powered flight, and hit a spiky hedge too

@conduit64 8 лет назад

cnawan If he ran into something I wouldn't exactly call it a successful flight. :)

@JOGA_Wills 4 года назад

3 people: The person who walked out of the cave The person who invented the wheel The person who invented beer Everyone else is tertiary

@cookeymonster83 3 года назад

1. homo sapiens never lived in caves 2. Feet are better 3. Alcoholism is the biggest killer of under 30's

@loganpage1157 8 лет назад

Actually Hank the ancient Greek created the first steam engine but never got to use it because the only prototype and blueprints were destroyed during the Crusades for they were stored in the library at Alexandria and we're burned along with the library.

@24680kong 8 лет назад

+Logan Page Actually, that's probably another myth. Plutarch wrote that Caesar's men accidentally burned down the library. There were many fires afterward, some accidental, some from battle, but probably not by crusaders.

@IIIXAxthenXIII 8 лет назад

+Logan Page How do you know this if the only written proof got burned away...

@Darticus42 8 лет назад

+IIIXAxthenXIII Other (existing) documents could have made reference to it or acknowledged its existenc

@loganpage1157 8 лет назад

+IIIXAxthenXIII All detailed blueprints were destroyed. There were still records of it but only today are we figuring out what it looked like.

@buenahschoir 6 лет назад

I love this episode! Debunking simplistic but commonly held beliefs with complex nuance is so cool!

@Andersl201 8 лет назад

I dislike Engelbart's name because in my language that means angel moustache.

@VittamarFasuthAkbin 8 лет назад

+Anders Larsen well, most likely because he is from the same language group like you

@JimCullen 8 лет назад

+Anders Larsen I like Engelbart's name because in your language that means angel moustache.

@calamusgladiofortior2814 5 лет назад

Angel Moustache would be a good name for an anime character or series.

@jedidrummerjake 8 лет назад

Always great info from you wonderful guys! Please tell us; would percussion instruments sustain longer tones on the I.S.S. because of microgravity. This is a need to know basis!

@Kalleosini 8 лет назад

the moral of the story is, let people use and modify your inventions, stop patenting things?

@WhichDoctor1 8 лет назад

+Ebon Hawk It is true that Boulton and Watt's various and multitudinous patents around the steam engine stultified the advance of the technology for around 50 years. On the other hand Watt's initial improvements took many years and an awful lot of money to refine and were extraordinarily important. They Probably wouldn't have been the money available for him to complete them if there had been no prospect of making money from the technology once it was finished. So sure patent things, but there should be a much shorter time limit before they expire.

@the1exnay 8 лет назад

Not really. If you dont patent then why invent? Why not just wait for others to invent it and then use the money you saved (by not inventing) to market your version better so you get all the money and the inventor doesnt. Important thing though is patents, like copyrights, must expire in a reasonable time so the next generation can build on what was made previously

@HotelPapa100 8 лет назад

Well, the deal actually goes like this: The inventor tells society how to replicate his invention (It has to be described in enough detail so that a person skilled in the art can reproduce it). In turn he gets protection for a limited time. At any rate: another inventor coming along and IMPROVING on the invention can get his own patent and is free to use it. That's the theory, anyway. In practice, especially US jurisdiction is very protectionist and will most of the time favor the US inventor over anybody from the outside. (There may be other countries with similar attitude, but with the US I have first hand experience.)

@funkyfreak97 5 лет назад

How about a video discussing the similarities between Steve Jobs and Thomas Edison? Both treated their employees terribly, stole inventions/ideas, and took existing technology and marketed it with some to no improvements, only to take full credit for so many things they barely touched.

@ionlymadethistoleavecoment1723 8 лет назад

Do people really think that only 1 person created anything?

@General12th 8 лет назад

+Ionlymadethistoleavecoments People believe God made everything. So yes.

@Subhumanslug 8 лет назад

+Jordan Shank Nice

@zeroforconduct8008 8 лет назад

+Jordan Shank Religion and science=two different things.

@ionlymadethistoleavecoment1723 8 лет назад

+Jordan Shank oh for goodness sake! don't turn my comment into a religious bashing thing. people can believe what they believe

@depro9 8 лет назад

+Ionlymadethistoleavecoments property IS THEFT!!!!!!1111111111

@deinonychus1948 7 лет назад

8:36 "Good news everyone! I found my long lost relative!" Futurama reference

@HerrFenchel 8 лет назад

I don´t believe that it is common to think that Ford invented the automobile.

@General12th 8 лет назад

+Herr Fenchel Yeah, I've never heard anybody say he invented it, either. Maybe it's a common belief elsewhere?

@Darticus42 8 лет назад

+Herr Fenchel I think it's more of an assumption because he really commercialized the automobile in the US.

@tablecork 8 лет назад

+Herr Fenchel When I was younger I believed so before I looked it up myself. I'm sure several people out there also believe it to be true

@gingergamergirl98 8 лет назад

I believe that's what I was taught in school. Or maybe I'm just misremembering it. At the very least, Ford is the first name I associate with the invention of the automobile. I may have learnt about the guys who preceded him (2 brothers, maybe friends), but I don't remember their names.

@HerrFenchel 8 лет назад

I learnt in school that Ford invented the mass production of cars. Maybe that´s what causes the confusion.

@Voyhkah 8 лет назад

The Wright brothers also invented the propeller, or at least made an incredibly good one. Their original propellers were almost as good as the ones we use today.

@SheosMan117 8 лет назад

Wasn't the first steam powered device invented by Hero of Alexandria in like triple digits CE?

@rationalmartian 8 лет назад

+SheosMan117 Yes. But it was really only a curio. Sphere connected to a copper vessel containing water that could spin on an axis with two small tubes with "jets", than spun around when heated. But it didn't really use or harness pressure to do work or achieve an end.

@mattl1221 8 лет назад

+SheosMan117 I think the plans got burnt in the Alexandria library

@SheosMan117 8 лет назад

I remember him because I once did a report on the guy. And yeah, I know it's a bit of a curio, but still, it could be considered the first steam powered device. I hear many things actually started as toys before practical uses were found for them.

@Kamnible 8 лет назад

+Matthew Leicester I thought that they were forgotten about because slave labor was significantly cheaper and more effective.

@rehmsmeyer 8 лет назад

Thanks, Hank, for saying "that we know of."

@sumdumbmick 8 лет назад

the Wright brothers built their own engine for the Wright Flyer, because nobody was manufacturing one with an appropriate power to weight ratio. Their later influence on aviation was mostly in manufacturing engines. They also invented the science of designing propellers, because up to then nobody really knew what they were doing there, despite ships having used screws for quite a long time by that point. They wrongfully assumed that previous professionals had genuine knowledge on the subject, and as a result their unanticipated need to invent a science of propeller design set them back a bit.

@Rickmakes 8 лет назад

I read somewhere that modern propellers are very close to what the Wright bros designed.

@sumdumbmick 8 лет назад

yeah, they achieved a very high efficiency by the first flyer. definitely not your average bicycle mechanics.

@germanthepilotr1070 8 лет назад

Wright brothers were the best

@gadadadadadadadadada 8 лет назад

Every time I see a new Scishow video I always hope it's hosted by this guy

@sumdumbmick 8 лет назад

if you wanna credit Galileo with something and take this list quite a bit further in one move, you could note that Galileo's version of inertia was an anticipation of General Relativity which Newton 'corrected' to give us Newtonian Gravitation which was then replaced with... wait for it... General Relativity.

@massimookissed1023 8 лет назад

He also saw four moons orbiting Jupiter, and took that as evidence for the universe not being Geo-centric. An heretic proposition for which Pope Urban 8 sentenced him to death. Very Christian (!)

@PaulMab9 8 лет назад

+Michael Minnich Those aren't inventions.

@sumdumbmick 8 лет назад

Absolutely. But the fact that the universe isn't geocentric is naked eye observable. Venus and Mercury present exactly the same problem that the Galilean moons do, and you actually see people forwarding models of the universe which are more modern than Galileo's, several millennia before his birth, based on deep thinking on the problem Venus and Mercury pose for geocentrism. And even in his own time there were variations on geocentrism and heliocentrism which had underground followings, many of which were aware of the much earlier models. So in that regard he's very much the inventor getting too much credit that is the topic of this vid.

@sumdumbmick 8 лет назад

+Paul Mabie Yes, they absolutely are. They are the combination of ideas, guesses and observations into a consumable commodity.

@PaulMab9 8 лет назад

Michael Minnich not of the engineering variety this video is clearly geared toward.

@Kinan.Eldari 8 лет назад

Quoting Sir Newton at the end there. Very appropriate. Props to who came up with including it.

@andregorgen 8 лет назад

Santos Dumont is the real inventor of airplane

@Dancing88Mike 8 лет назад

Only to Brazilians. One country

@leo1337hs 8 лет назад

+Michael Casey a slingshot is not a fucking plane.

@kevindisney9809 8 лет назад

No, Gustave Whitehead pal.

@gabrielr1073 8 лет назад

Just USA think the Wright brothers are the inventors of the airplane. All the other countries in the world consider Dumont the real inventor of the airplane.

@BrianAThomas 8 лет назад

As I seem to recall, the flight at Kitty Hawk, while notable and important, isn't nearly as important as their flights later back in Dayton. Their patent of course applied to controlled flight, which was demonstrated by their glider... and the whole patent war is probably far more than an episode in of itself... probably more like a whole 2 hour History Channel special (to which I'm sure many would say "if History Channel only did historical stuff anymore").

@GarenPhillips 8 лет назад

You should do a video about true genius and compare them to ordinary inventors. Like how Mozart could learn an entire piece of music in half an hour at the age of 4 or how he started composing at 5. Or anything that Tesla invented. Comparing and contrasting raw talent of these individuals vs brute force work ethic like Einstein and how he was considered sub-par physicist by the scientific community for a good portion of his career.

@spindash64 8 лет назад

that's a neat concept for an episode, but the way you phrased it made it sound like you consider some of them to be "lesser". That's probably not what you meant, but I'm just going by how I interpreted it.

@sphinxrising1129 4 года назад

Tesla is overrated & a lot of credit is given to him for things conspiracy people want to believe he invented, but never saw the light of reality. Tesla also believe he could talk to imaginary space aliens.

@defenderoftheadverb 8 лет назад

Baird demonstrated the first TV in Jan 1926 three years before Farnsworth.

@Certifiable 8 лет назад

Hey, what about John Logie Baird?

@entropyzero5588 8 лет назад

+tallaussiebloke Well, they did mention the mechanical TV… Briefly…

@gregarmstrong3496 8 лет назад

More like John Logie Unfair-d. Right? Right?

@Certifiable 8 лет назад

Similar shit happened with Spielberg's "Histeria". Was all 100% that USA invented the TV.

@roberthelm87 7 лет назад

i need DFTBA to make the shirt with Hank holding two lenses with the quote "Hey, Hey! These make you look bigger!"

@anthonyindiana563 8 лет назад

Matt Santoro video on this coming in 3......2.....1

@hezechiahjones8365 8 лет назад

Pretty much.

@Emetris 6 лет назад

"Invention is a process that takes year, sometimes generations of collaboration, and while one person's stroke of genious can play a part, that stroke of genious never happens in a vacuum. If these people invented something bigger and cooler than the people who came before them, it was by standing on the shoulders of giants" - hankgre on snapchat

@jayb1797 8 лет назад

I don't need know how to make a top comment someone help

@bram817 8 лет назад

Step 1. Dont comment any spam/non relative comments

@DirtMankee 8 лет назад

+bram van ostayen I hate my life !

@DirtMankee 8 лет назад

+Satanic Cabal Lolel

@grass1503 8 лет назад

Did anybody see that he said don't?

@Darasilverdragon 8 лет назад

+Dat Boi o shit waddup

@RMoribayashi 8 лет назад

Nobody ever mentions Windows versions earlier than 3.0. In case you're curious, At that time there were dozens of organizers for MS-DOS that let you run your computer's programs without having to remember and type their filename every time you needed them. Windows 1 and 2 organized your "real" programs and had a bunch of useful tools like notepad, paint, clock and a calculator, all of which could run the same time (a novel idea at the time). Versions 1 and 2 were not very popular because they were mouse based at a time when most programs weren't. This forced you to constantly switch between mouse and keyboard based operation.

@Nagrooven 8 лет назад

Why is Ted Cruz the zodiac killer?

@pjb4465 8 лет назад

cuz he was bored

@zebedeesummers4413 8 лет назад

long read but... www.theverge.com/2016/2/26/11120000/ted-cruz-zodiac-killer-why-evidence-theory

@cyb3ar897 8 лет назад

+Nagrooven Much as I dislike Ted Cruz, it isn't possible for him to be the Zodiac Killer. He wasn't even born yet when the Zodiac Killer first started killing people.

@pjb4465 8 лет назад

+LogicOwlGaming that's what he wants you to think

@TapOnX 8 лет назад

+LogicOwlGaming I know, right? It's just a lie invented by the real Zodiac, aka Bernie Sanders.

@dobste 4 года назад

There is a story of Issac Asimov, the billiard ball, which tells the story of the theoretical physicsist and the the guy who gets to build the perfect devices with the ideeas. Quess who is the rich one and who goes to nobody remembering him!

@SiskinOnUTube 8 лет назад

Where the F is John Logie Baird in your TV history. Not American enough I assume.

@charlietuba 7 лет назад

I know a man named Otis who invented a room, And his heart was filled with pride. I said to Mr. Otis, "What does your room do?" He said, "It goes from side to side." So I said, "Mr. Otis, if you take my advice, You'll be the richest man in town. You gotta take that room that goes from side to side, And make it go up and down." And that was good advice, good advice. Good advice costs nothing, and it's worth the price. I sincerely doubt That the world could do without My good advice. - from "Good Advice" by Alan Sherman

@HedgehogStudios1 8 лет назад

"The gooey..." It's an acronym, for fuck's sake. It's not a word.

@gophop 8 лет назад

+Laser Lens You're in the minority.

@Dr.Spatula 8 лет назад

+Sean Toney MOBA, Gif, Hud, Emp. So many to name. Hell, it is a stereotype to name something in a way its acronym is enunciated as a real word.

@NameGoesWhere0 8 лет назад

+Laser Lens Certain acronyms can be said as words if they form one. How many people do you know that say every letter in NATO or AIDS, individually?

@sebyiuga2184 8 лет назад

yeah it's an acronym: ac·ro·nym ˈakrəˌnim/ noun an abbreviation formed from the initial letters of other words and pronounced as a word (e.g., ASCII,NASA ).

@Dr.Spatula 8 лет назад

lethrahn Haha, good call. Was not aware the word originated as an acronym.

@moviemaker1986 4 года назад

I remember, as a kid, when my family got our first computer that used Win 95. I was sooo amazed...sooo many different colors, having come from the old Mac style computers.

@ThePrindle 8 лет назад

I love this kind of stuff. Makes me want to go back and check out Kirby Ferguson's "Everything is a Remix." He mentions a handful of these inventors, but applies the concept to pop culture. Check him out. It's pretty great.

@AnthroTsuneon 8 лет назад

About the Steam Engine, wasn't there a version in ancient greece? Where it was basically some orb with 2 exhausts that used Steam to propel itself into spinning? I remember finding out about it when researching about rockets, ironically enough, for a school paper about space flight and its history. Edit, found the name again: Aeolipile

@IteKLF 8 лет назад

I just have to say: "Connections" by James Burke

@DrewSchroeder 8 лет назад

i love to nerd out and watch Scishow every single day

@Fiyaaaahh 8 лет назад

You seem to credit dreamers as much as the scientists who made the invention. There is in fact a HUUUUUUUUUUUGE difference between coming up with the idea "I'd like to have a machine that can do X" and the actual invention.

@seraphina985 8 лет назад

I always think about this sort of thing when people start suggesting things like what some invention x could do if taken back in time, the reality is that most of them could never be constructed much before they already were anyway even knowing how since the prerequisite technologies didn't exist. Maybe a short time before since you could avoid the trial and error phase but only once all the pieces are in place, modern technology requires an almost incomprehensible amount of knowledge to actually put together from raw materials.

@ImVeryBrad 8 лет назад

you guys make the best videos. keep pumping them out!!!!!!

@KyPaMac 8 лет назад

I love seeing Hank discuss the same ideas in SciShow and Vlogbrothers (first 45 seconds).

@grindstone4910 8 лет назад

The Wright bros. also corrected Lilienthal's mathematical formulas that he had collected during his testing. I don't recall the specifics, but they found the error that was preventing him from correctly calculating lift. If you're interested in what the Wright bros. went through (as well as other inventions of the time) check out the Carillon Historical Park in Dayton, OH.

@noahway13 Год назад

Having them on the list was a stretch. They invented heavier than air flight. No two ways about it.

@meganofsherwood3665 Год назад

Carillon Park also does a great job showcasing the environment the Wright Brothers were living in! Dayton was one of THE up & coming places to be for mechanical inventions at the time. NCR, American Packard, Charles F Kettering & his barn gang with their Self Starter (eventually most of them got hired by GM, iirc, which is part of why GM had such a huge presence in Dayton until 2008)...Dayton was a hotbed of ideas, creativity, and resources at the time, with everybody feeding off each other, so it makes a lot of sense that the Wright bros. finally cracked powered flight

@qyuburt2796 8 лет назад

never once mentioned James Watt was Scottish, or that John Logie Baird is also rssponsible for the television and telephone.

@HRHtheDude 4 года назад

Alexander Graham Bell for telephone.

@hectorsantos4662 6 лет назад

as a brazilian i'm very upset that you didn't mention santos dumont in this video, him being the very first to fly and land a motor airplane, the 14 bis

6 лет назад

Totally. And the thumbnail makes us think that

@meganofsherwood3665 Год назад

Okay, I'm going to have to do some more digging into the history of powered flight

@spatewater 8 лет назад

Your delivery is awesome Hank!-

@rimilien 6 лет назад

For me, a guy grown up it Germany this video is pretty interesting. Because here we don't contribute the automobile to ford. Another interesting thing is that when you see a German report about the creation of the telephone it is always mentioned that Johann Phillip Reis has built one before Bell and that bell knew about this invention. But they don't mention the other great minds that invented similar great machines. In my opinion this is a sign of people feeding their ego by "lifing in a nation of smart people". We should stop caring so much about our egos it separates from the world by drawing borders. I'm thankful towards all the great minds who made and make our lives richer, no matter if german, American, Chinese or whatever. So to all those brilliant people an honest thank you. And a huge thanks to the team of scishow who helps me learning.