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★ Invention & Inventor

In 1939 a group of eccentric inventors were brought together by Winston Churchill.  They fought the Nazis with British bulldog spirit and ingenuity.  Churchill’s Toyshop, Discovery 2015

 

 

1856 when Henry Bessemer invented a process for producing mass-produced steel.  Mark Williams, Industrial Revelations s1e7: Cutting Edge, Discovery 2002

 

 

The steam engine – invented in England in the early eighteenth century and perfected by James Watt.  Michael Wood, The Great British Story 7/8: A People’s History: Industry & Empire, BBC 2012

 

 

‘The man who discovered how to power the world ... was James Watt, and his steam engine was to drive the industrial revolution.’  Genius of Britain II: A Roomful of Brilliant Minds, James Dyson, Channel 4 2012

 

The answer was to cool and condense the steam in a separate chamber outside the main cylinder.  ibid.

 

Watt’s monsters throbbed day and night.  ibid.  

 

James Watt’s invention changed the world ... This was the start of the Industrial Revolution.  ibid.  

 

 

We are Innovators.  Inventors.   We transformed the resources of our planet into new powers.  Mankind conquers Nature.   But as Life accelerates, new perils and our greatest triumphs.  On an unforgiving planet.  One species learns to harness its bounty.  To survive thrive and conquer.  This is our story.  The story of all of us.  Mankind: The Story of All of Us XI

 

 

Our history looms large over us shaping our present and our future.  We accept the great moments and ideas detailed in history books as a matter of fact.  But what if our understanding of historical events isn’t actually all that accurate.  As time passes our perception of history can become foggier, less reliable.  History’s Greatest Myths s1e1: Inventions and Discoveries, History 2013

 

Transformative discoveries and inventions often seem as if they have emerged into our society fully formed, filling a space that was empty only moments earlier and quickly becoming the fabric of our daily lives.  This perception drives prevailing myths about inventors and their inventions.  Yet how history remembers these inventors is often embellished by clever marketing, propaganda, cloudy recollections, and at worst, out and out theft.  ibid.   

 

The notion that Edison solely invented the light bulb is a myth that has endured.  ibid.  

 

Four years after publishing her research, [Rosalind] Franklin tragically died at the age of 37 from Ovarian cancer before her contemporaries [Crick & Watson] won their Nobel Prize.  ibid.  

 

 

Imagine a magic carpet developed in secret by the United States’ military.  How about a cage for babies that hangs from a 20-storey building.  Or giant killer robots powered by facial expressions.  Has the human drive to create new technology opened a Pandora’s Box?  The UnBelievable with Dan Aykroyd s1e5: Outlandish Inventions, History 2024

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