3. The Microwave Oven:
Inventor, or first to patent: Percy Spencer
Date: 1945
Link: en.wikipedia.org...
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first patent could be right...but..
the microwaves were alreaddy installed on the german U boats during ww2..
so it is an guinny german invention...

Originally posted by The_Zomar
Very weird. I have thought about this before. The microchip in particular. I can easily say more microchips have been made, and microchips were a more revolutionary step than the cotton gin that we still teach youngsters about.

intersetingly enough alot of stange new patents started coming out 5-10 years after roswel

6 or 7 now major companies stated up at about the same time and patanted things that logically had no use by themselves

like they were being descovered out of logical order (or reverse engineered) do we give credit to the alien creators or the companies that patented them

sometimes the principle inventer comes up with a principal process or mecanism and a company might buy that and develop it

who then is the inventer? the person with the idea even if he knows not how to make it for production

how many inventers are good at business, marketing, finance
maby this is why some people think corperations invented everything

XPLodER

From someone that attended a pretty good h.s. seven years ago, I can barely recall them teaching us anything about inventors, and if they did, it was so brief that it never became something you really needed to know to pass the class. A real shame, especially since I've learned so much more on my own through curious research then I've ever been taught in school.

I didn't even know who Tesla was until a few years back, and I'm shocked that one of the greatest inventors of all time is largely ignored in our history books while we're still fed on Edison being the best.

The list of inventors taught in schools is really more focused on "major inventions" or more accurately those that had the biggest impact on culture and society at the time. The cotton gin qualifies for that as does the car, airplane, radio, telephone, etc.

Modern inventors no longer seem to invent the big impact item since, as others have noted, those are developed over years of research by teams like the Manhattan Project "invented" the atomic weapon. Further, within the U.S., there seems to be a preference for only discussing those things invented by Americans primarily during the "Industrial Age".

I would hope that 100 years from now there will be a greater emphasis on later 20th century inventions of greater impact, i.e. computers, cell phone technology, microwaves, etc.

I was taught that John Logie Baird invented the television. And it seems that there's plenty of documentation to support this.

Originally posted by dreamwalker74

2. Ignorance. People who don’t understand something, and are not willing to research it, come up with their own theories based on emotion alone. I have been told by MANY people over the years. “Look around you, at least 90% of all this modern technology was reverse engineered from Extra Terrestrials.” Don’t get me wrong, I believe the evidence exists that many E.T. crafts have landed or crashed on this planet. I believe a small fraction of their technology was able to be reverse engineered. I also believe that some day, after disclosure does come, we will be able to celebrate the names of these secret scientists and engineeres who were able to do the unthinkable. In the mean time we need to research the human inventors who have made our modern day lives what they are. We need to put them in our history books, and we need to put them up as examples for our children.

edit on by dbates because: Caps lock title edit.

I totally agree with you but only 1 thing that I do not. Integrated circuit was listed as one of the technologies that was sent to some Company to be studied and back-engineered. A technology that "WASN'T ours to begin with" was then patented and an inventor named. Hell. It wasn't even INVENTED. It was BACK-ENGINEERED. A mere pathetic copy created by homo sapiens, the lesser intelligent race. Lets look at the definition(s) of invent.

in·vent   [in-vent] Show IPA
–verb (used with object)
1.
to originate or create as a product of one's own ingenuity, experimentation, or contrivance: to invent the telegraph.
2.
to produce or create with the imagination: to invent a story.
3.
to make up or fabricate (something fictitious or false): to invent excuses.
4.
Archaic . to come upon; find.

Now lets look at Reverse Engineer.

re·verse-en·gi·neer   [ri-vurs-en-juh-neer] Show IPA
–verb (used with object)
to study or analyze (a device, as a microchip for computers) in order to learn details of design, construction, and operation, perhaps to produce a copy or an improved version.

These jokers didn't invent ANYTHING. They only reverse engineered a technology, created by another far more intelligent race, not meant for this planet at the time.

Same thing goes for the Alien Headband (In theory, was being used to control the craft by thought) that was recovered at the Roswell Crash. Right now, guess where its making its grand first stop at? Military. To pilot their piss-poor machines of war and man-made destruction. If you ask me, we're not taking the safe way of self-evolution, we're relying on reverse engineered technologies and thats not the safe way to evolve even with our Reckless Fascination with dropping Nuclear bombs on other countries.

If we as people don't do something about this soon, we'll be bombarding ourselves with AntiMatter and Nano bombs. Not a pleasant way to go, and there's no going back after it happens. Why? We wont be alive to have second thoughts about this.