Ok, so I went on google and searched "Most important inventions" The fourth result was [url]http://inventors.about.com/od/famousinventions/tp/topteninvention.htm
It lists the top 10 as:
The Telephone
The Computer
The Television
The Automobile
The Cotton Gin
The Camera
The Steam Engine
The Sewing Machine
The Light Bulb
Penicillin
All of these are by the whites. Let's explain:
The Telephone - In 1875, Alexander Graham Bell(Scottish born) built the first telephone that transmitted electrically the human voice.
Anyone think he stole that from the negro or mongol? I don't think there are any people that deny this, so, I guess it's settled.
The computer - Nobody really invented "the computer," but many other computers have added to this great invention, improving it every time:
• The first computer - a machine which could do mathematical equations - was built as early as 1623 by the German scientist Wilhelm Schikard. He built a machine that used 11 complete and 6 incomplete sprocketed wheels that could add and, with the aid of logarithm tables, multiply and divide.
• In 1642, the Frenchman Blaise Pascal, invented a machine that added and subtracted, automatically carrying and borrowing digits from column to column. The 17th century German mathematician, Gottfried Leibniz, designed a special gearing system to enable Pascal's machine to do multiplication as well.
• The first programmable computer was developed in 1804 when the Frenchman, Joseph-Marie Jacquard, invented a spinning loom which used punched cards to program preselected patterns. Jacquard was rewarded by Napoleon Bonaparte for his work, but was forced to flee Lyon when he was attacked by weavers who saw themselves being replaced by his invention. His looms are however still used today, especially in the manufacture of fine furniture fabrics.
• The British mathematician and inventor, Charles Babbage, started building, but never completed, two astonishing computers called the Difference Engine and the Analytical Engine. The latter became the basis upon which all modern computers were developed. Babbage never managed to finish building his machines - although all the plans were completed - because of financial constraints. Many of the ideas surrounding Babbage's computers were recorded by his friend, Augusta Ada Byron, the daughter of the famous poet Lord Byron. Ada's conceptual programs for the Engine led to the naming of a programming language (Ada) in her honor. Although the Analytical Engine was never built, its key concepts, such as the capacity to store instructions, the use of punched cards as a primitive memory, and the ability to print, were taken by others and can be found in many modern computers.
• The German American, Herman Hollerith, developed a device which could electronically create and read the punched cards developed by Jacquard. Hollerith's tabulator was used for the 1890 US census, cutting the counting time to a quarter of the previous census time. Hollerith's Tabulating Machine Company eventually merged with other companies in 1924 to become the world famous IBM company.
• The precursor to the modern digital computer came in 1936, when the British mathematician Alan Turing developed the Turing Machine - a device looking like a typewriter that could process equations without human direction. From this machine the idea of buttons and keyboard for a computer was developed.
• In the 1930s, the American mathematician, Howard Aiken, developed the Mark I calculating machine, which was built by Hollerith's IBM. This electronic calculating machine used relays and electromagnetic components to replace mechanical components. Aiken also introduced computers to universities by establishing the first computer science program at Harvard University.
• During the Second World War, computer technology leapfrogged, with the British developing a massive analogue computer in secret to be able to read the encrypted German field signals.
• The first successful digital computer, the Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer (ENIAC), was invented by the American, John Mauchly, at the University of Pennsylvania in 1945. Many of ENIAC's first tasks were for military purposes, such as calculating ballistic firing tables and designing atomic weapons. Mauchly and a partner formed their own company, and produced the Universal Automatic Computer (UNIVAC), which was used for a broader variety of commercial applications.
• In 1948, at Bell Telephone Laboratories, American physicists Walter Houser Brattain, John Bardeen, and William Bradford Shockley developed the transistor, a device that can act as an electric switch. The transistor had a tremendous impact on computer design, replacing costly, energy-inefficient, and unreliable vacuum tubes.
• From then on the science has leapfrogged: the development of integrated circuits in America in the late 1960s by a number of scientists enabled the miniaturization of the computer and led ultimately to the modern word processor and personal computer so common today.
The Television - Lee De Forest (1873-1961) designed a number of the earliest wireless radio and telegraph transmitters. His most important invention, however, was a type of vacuum tube that De Forest called the audion, and which today is known as the triode. The triode was the key component of all radio, radar, television and computer systems until its replacement by the transistor (made by 3 whites-Walter Houser Brattain, John Bardeen, and William Bradford Shockley) in the early 1950s.
In 1884, Paul Nipkow(German) sent images over wires using a rotating metal disk technology with 18 lines of resolution. Television then evolved along two paths, mechanical based on Nipkow's rotating disks, and electronic based on the cathode ray tube. American Charles Jenkins and Scotsman John Baird followed the mechanical model while Philo Farnsworth, working independently in San Francisco, and Russian émigré Vladimir Zworkin, working for Westinghouse and later RCA, advanced the electronic model.
The Automobile - The first self propelled vehicle, a three wheeled steam-powered engine designed to move artillery pieces, was developed in 1769, by the French Army officer Captain Nicolas Joseph Cugnot. The next steam engines were developed in England but soon were running on tracks, as with Richard Trevithick's successful engines.
Steam cars became popular in America during the very early 20th century, with the most famous vehicle being the Stanley Steamer, built by American twin brothers Freelan and Francis Stanley. A Stanley Steamer established a world land speed record in 1906 of 205.44 km/h (121.573 mph). Manufacturers produced about 125 models of steam-powered automobiles, including the Stanley, until 1932.
The Cotton Gin - Eli Whitney. 'nuff said.
The Camera - In 1814, Joseph Nicéphore Niépce created the first photographic image with a camera obscura, however, the image required eight hours of light exposure and later faded. Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre is considered the inventor of the first practical process of photography in 1837.
George Eastman (1854-1932) who in 1884 patented the first film in roll form to prove practicable; in 1888 he perfected the Kodak camera; in 1889, Eastman invented flexible transparent film, which allowed the development of the motion picture industry.
The Steam Engine - James Watt (1736-1819) was a Scottish inventor who won renown for his development of the first viable steam engine, a device which had originally been invented by the English engineers Thomas Savery and Thomas Newcomen. The first steam engines were thundering devices which were used to pump water from mines.
The Sewing Machine - The first functional sewing machine was invented by the French tailor, Barthelemy Thimonnier, in 1830. In 1834, Walter Hunt built America's first (somewhat) successful sewing machine. Elias Howe patented the first lockstitch sewing machine in 1846. Isaac Singer invented the up-and-down motion mechanism. In 1857, James Gibbs patented the first chain-stitch single-thread sewing machine. Helen Augusta Blanchard patented the first zig-zag stitch machine in 1873.
The Light Bulb - Contrary to popular belief, Thomas Alva Edison didn't "invent" the light bulb, but rather he improved upon a 50-year-old idea. In 1809, Humphry Davy, an English chemist, invented the first electric light. In 1878, Sir Joseph Wilson Swan, an English physicist, was the first person to invent a practical and longer-lasting electic lightbulb (13.5 hours) with a carbon fiber filament. In 1879, Thomas Alva Edison invented a carbon filament that burned for forty hours. All inventors were white.
Penicillin - Penicillin was discovered by Alexander Fleming in 1928. Andrew Moyer patented the first method of industrial production of penicillin in 1948.
EDIT: Added sizes to the invention names for better organization.
Post edited at 4:34 pm on Aug. 22, 2008 by kidd rune
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