Ten Patents that Changed the World
By marcyaz
@Marcyaz (35316)
United States
September 9, 2015 4:45pm CST
Cotton Gin - Eli Whitney devised a machine to get out the seeds from the cotton.
Sewing Machine - Ellias Howe's Invention industraliazed the clothes industry and helped build the garment industry along with his fellow inventor Isaac Singer.
Barbed Wire - Joseph Glidden's wire enabled ranchers for the first time to divide up the range.
Telephone - Alexander Graham Bell's invention built AT&T at that time the biggest phone system.
Light Bulb - Thomas Edison and his team invented a whole power-distribution network to go with it.
Machine Gun - Hiram Maxim who was the inventor and war was forever changed.
Automobile - Henry Ford who invented the first automobile.
Airplane - The Wright Brothers showed the world how to fly.
Xerography - Chester Carlson invented the first successful copier then renamed it Xerox.
The Transitor - John Bardeen, Walter Brattain and William Shockley invented the transistor later became known as the integrated circuit.
Did you know all of these
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@Rosekitty (19368)
• San Marcos, Texas
9 Sep 15
I only knew 5..the most common ones we learned in grade school..but i bet all my grands know the others..boy are we dumb..hahah
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@TiarasOceanView (70020)
• United States
9 Sep 15
I did not know any of these Marcy.
That is great. I wonder how anyone invents stuff?
The only thing I would invent is how to sleep forever haha
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@TiarasOceanView (70020)
• United States
9 Sep 15
@Marcyaz Wait I did know the phone inventor.
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@Carmelanirel2 (8085)
• United States
1 Oct 15
Just the telephone, light bulb, and especially the airplane since I live in between where the Wright Brothers were born (In Indiana) and where they had their shop (Ohio). I also have a book on the Wright Brothers history that are not in the history books. One of my daughter's customers wrote a book after he did some deep research and took pictures of many tombstones of the Wright Brothers family, one of which is literally in the middle of a corn field.
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@Carmelanirel2 (8085)
• United States
2 Oct 15
@Marcyaz Well, the land is considered a huge corn producing area, so I guess I shouldn't be too surprised, and I guess it is being taken care of.
@GardenGerty (169406)
• United States
10 Sep 15
I think we take a lot of these for granted. I had to memorize some of them in school.
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@celticeagle (189793)
• Boise, Idaho
10 Sep 15
Yes, they sure did help move things along.
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@topffer (42155)
• France
9 Sep 15
It is interesting, but, honestly, all these inventions are not due to Americans : Ford invented series production of automobiles, not the automobile. The barbed wire was patented by a French called Louis Jannin ten years before Glidden. The telephone was "on air" since many years and tested long before Bell in Europe (in 1861 by Philipp Reis in Germany, who invented also the word "telephone"). In USA two patents were recorded the same day, and it seems that Elisha Gray recorded his patent two hours before Graham Bell, but Bell had better lawyers...
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@topffer (42155)
• France
9 Sep 15
I am discovering this article about Meucci, an Italo-American who demonstrated the telephone in 1860, one year before Reis, in New-York. Bell had access to his material...
The US Congress yesterday recognised an impoverished Florentine immigrant as the inventor of the telephone rather than Alexander Graham Bell.
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@LeaPea2417 (40020)
• Toccoa, Georgia
10 Sep 15
Yes, the world would be a totally different place without these things.
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@Mukundrao (49)
• Mumbai, India
10 Sep 15
We can add mobile, computre,and perhaps drone.
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@inertia4 (27978)
• United States
14 Sep 15
You forgot one innovator here. Apple. They changed the way we use mostly everything we know. Phones, Computers, Notebooks and pads and Music. And coming to the changes, TV and Movies. The iPod and the iPhone are amongst the best inventions since the ones you listed.
