Originally posted by X-tal_Phusion
Wouldn't it have been easier to just say "no"? Here's an article on the invention of fiber optics:
inventors.about.com... 
I asked for specific inventions and you named just one thing that was completely, 100%
man-made. I'm not going to go out a buy a book without a darned good reason (i.e., the author is well-known in his/her field and has an established
record of high-quality work in an area which interests me).
Your right!
Absolutely right.
I'll keep the link you posted and add some more from your own source, the reason I'll do this is to show you something odd.
Excellent observation but go back to your link and notice the timeline you'll see a major advancement in the 1950's also notice a huge gap in
development between 1930 and 1954 Roswell happened in 1947.
Why would such a technology not have been used during WWII? During WWII every sort of Technology was looked at to exploit a military advantage but
this over looked?
Notice the gap? 1930 then again in 1954?
Example
Fiber optics
In 1930, German medical student, Heinrich Lamm was the first person to assemble a bundle of optical fibers to carry an image. Lamm's goal was to
look inside inaccessible parts of the body. During his experiments, he reported transmitting the image of a light bulb. The image was of poor quality,
however. His effort to file a patent was denied because of Hansell's British patent.
n 1954, Dutch scientist Abraham Van Heel and British scientist Harold. H. Hopkins separately wrote papers on imaging bundles. Hopkins reported on
imaging bundles of unclad fibers while Van Heel reported on simple bundles of clad fibers. He covered a bare fiber with a transparent cladding of a
lower refractive index. This protected the fiber reflection surface from outside distortion and greatly reduced interference between fibers. At the
time, the greatest obstacle to a viable use of fiber optics was in achieving the lowest signal (light) loss.
Here you have a huge gap 1917 then all of sudden in 1954 advancement.
Example
L.A.S.E.R.
The name LASER is an acronym for Light Amplification by the Stimulated Emission of Radiation. In 1917, Albert Einstein first theorized about the
process which makes lasers possible called "Stimulated Emission."
Before the Laser there was the Maser
In 1954, Charles Townes and Arthur Schawlow invented the maser (microwave amplification by stimulated emission of radiation), using ammonia gas and
microwave radiation - the maser was invented before the (optical) laser. The technology is very close but does not use a visible light.
On March 24, 1959, Charles Townes and Arthur Schawlow were granted a patent for the maser. The maser was used to amplify radio signals and as an
ultrasensitive detector for space research.
In 1958, Charles Townes and Arthur Schawlow theorized and published papers about a visible laser, an invention that would use infrared and/or visible
spectrum light, however, they did not proceed with any research at the time.
Ruby Laser
In 1960, Theodore Maiman invented the ruby laser considered to be the first successful optical or light laser.
Not much of a prehistory there just came out of nowhere in 1958
Example :
Carbon Fiber
History of Carbon Fiber
In 1958, Dr. Roger Bacon created the first high-performance carbon fibers at the Union Carbide Parma Technical Center, located outside of Cleveland,
Ohio.[4]The first fibers were manufactured by heating strands of rayon until they carbonized. This process proved to be inefficient, as the resulting
fibers contained only about 20% carbon and had low strength and stiffness properties. In the early 1960s, a process was developed using
polyacrylonitrile (PAN) as a raw material. This had produced a carbon fiber that contained about 55% carbon and had much better properties. The
polyacrylonitrile (PAN) conversion process quickly became the primary method for producing carbon fibers.[2]
Lets look at the Inetgrated circuit, Father of the Microchip 1958
Example :
Integrated Circuit
Jack Kilby, an engineer with a background in ceramic-based silk screen circuit boards and transistor-based hearing aids, started working for Texas
Instruments in 1958. A year earlier, research engineer Robert Noyce had co-founded the Fairchild Semiconductor Corporation. From 1958 to 1959, both
electrical engineers were working on an answer to the same dilemma: how to make more of less.
In designing a complex electronic machine like a computer it was always necessary to increase the number of components involved in order to make
technical advances. The monolithic (formed from a single crystal) integrated circuit placed the previously separated transistors, resistors,
capacitors and all the connecting wiring onto a single crystal (or 'chip') made of semiconductor material. Kilby used germanium and Noyce used
silicon for the semiconductor material.
Another good example from the 1950s
Example :
Night Vision
Where Did Thermal Imaging Devices Originate From?:
Thermal imaging devices were first developed for military purposes. According to Bullard Thermal Imaging, "In the late 1950s and 1960s, Texas
Instruments, Hughes Aircraft, and Honeywell developed single element detectors that scanned scenes and produced line images. These basic detectors led
to the development of modern thermal imaging."
Superconductor 1957
Example :
Superconductor
Mysteries of Superconductors - BCS Theory
In 1957, scientists began to unlock the mysteries of superconductors. Three American physicists at the University of Illinois, John Bardeen, Leon
Cooper, and Robert Schrieffer, developed a model that has since stood as a good example of why superconductors behave as they do and expressed the
advanced ideas of the science of quantum mechanics. Their model suggested that electrons in a superconductor condense into a quantum ground state and
travel together collectively and coherently.
It took a long time to backwards engineer the technology that was found back then. Corso never claimed they invented the technology we are speaking
of, but that he was in charge of releasing it to industry that were already working in those fields, they seemed to be the best chance of developing
it. In his book he explains this in detail.
He said he contacting people at these companies and only the need to know were let into the know.
His only requirement was that they used it and take the claims of the development, patents and to release it into the consumer markets!
I left out the obvious military examples that the US has developed and deployed I'm pretty sure either you or somebody you know have seen those
demonstrations
In conclusion some things have taken longer than others to analize then develop we are starting to see the direction of this further release of
technology here.
This by far one of my favorite it seems to have just popped out of nowhere with no real history and yet it is the direction we are
headed
Example :
Nanotechnology
Nanotechnology, which is sometimes shortened to "Nanotech", refers to a field whose theme is the control of matter on an atomic and molecular
scale. Generally nanotechnology deals with structures of the size 100 nanometers or smaller, and involves developing materials or devices within that
size.
I'll leave you with a few videos to watch and ponder what else we could be doing with this technology and how it should be helping us out of this
global crunch!
NanoTech
Ultraconductor
[edit on 22-12-2008 by SLAYER69]
