Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2000 10:31:41 -0800
Reply-To: Zoltan <zol@FOXINTERNET.NET>
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From: Zoltan <zol@FOXINTERNET.NET>
Subject: Re: inventions are incremental - Zoltan
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The tire was invented by a French dentist who wanted a little softer ride
for hid son's bike and put some garden hose of the old rubber kind around
the wheel. That way he did not even need to have it inflated. That is
where Michelin got the idea. I think.
The carburetor was Hungarian invention, when the guy walked by a flower shop
seeing the girl in there using a little device into which when you blow air
in a cloud of perfume appeared the other side. Took him a while to create
the working unit, which is now residing in the Smithsonian.
I read this forty years ago in a book. It was also a French medic who
invented the guillotine. Mr. Guillotine. He really did not do it for
health reason. And "first do no harm" by the Hippocratic oath did not
bother him either like most of his other followers.
And it was a French guy who invented the reinforced concrete too, when after
he got tired of having his large plants break the concrete barrels as they
grew, he put steel barrel rings around it and casted a new one that never
again broke.
The gasoline around the world is called "benzine", probably because it has
something to do with Mr. Benz.
Although in America it is "gasoline", in the other English speaking
countries "petrol", in Europe proper it is "benzine". I don't know what it
is called in South America.
The presently used engines are called "Otto" motors, for it was Mr. Otto who
invented or patented it first. It is close to 150 years old now, and while
it is perfected to it's today's performance, has not been replaced yet.
Mr. Wankel did the rotary engine which really has not taken off for it had
much trouble with cooling and other things for it is a high rev motor. He
has died a few years ago.
And as you all know the VW engines were first designed by Ferdinand Porsche
and his son followed him who has just recently died. Serving their country
did not do them a lot of good either.
Of those Germans Werner von Braun did best who was only 25 when became the
director of the rocket program in Germany and later he was the director of
NASA and made all those Apollo rockets and put the man on the moon with your
money. He died a few month ago. He was not really an original American
person so he has not been loved and respected by the people here. He was
not even known really. Although he took up his new citizenship fifty years
ago.
The Lunar Mobil was designed by a Hungarian at Boeing and led the team which
made it. He died last week here in Seattle. I knew him personally. He was
a diamond between stones. And I don't just mean his professional
life. A kind old wise man with immense knowledge of many things. A humble
person who knew the difference between 0-100 in his personal life too.
Edward Teller and his friend - can't think of his name now - has invented
the atomic bomb. Also Hungarians but the Israelis will probably claim to be
one of theirs, only there was no Israel those days yet.
But it was the Chinese who invented the Zero three hundred years before
Jesus. Can you imagine life today without the zero. Someone would have
invented it I'm sure by now.
Guttenberg did not invent the printing, he only made it popular in Europe.
He was the first in Europe. It was already long done in China. He merely
copied the Chinese system and did the same himself.
The Gun Powder was invented in China too.
The Dynamite is from Sweden. Mr. Alfred Nobel. Which he was when he
realized his terrible deed, he founded a prize for the diamonds of humanity
and ever since there is Noble Prize for many good guys. He does not have to
feel so bad anymore since the Atomic bomb and the even worse Hydrogen bomb
has over taken his achievement a trillion times.
You may want to know that the ball point pen is a Hungarian invention too.
Made by Mr. Biro. Who is not even known for his invention in Hungary by the
masses because he patented and marketed it here in the US. But he lives in
Hungary now. It's cheaper there.
The matches is also Hungarian by Mr. Irinyi
Hollywood was also started by the escaped Hungarian film industry. George
Cukor, the Korda brothers and more I just don't recall. They were always
Democrats.
New York's Governor is Hungarian. (No Vanagon connection.)
And it goes on and on... Some of you may not have known some of these
above.
By the way I am also a Hungarian invention with German influence. As you
may have guessed. Sorry I got a little carried away.
Zoltan
'82 Westy
'78 Bus
'98 Jetta (for sale)
Etc., etc.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jonc" <jonc@VALLEY.NET>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Monday, November 06, 2000 8:30 AM
Subject: inventions are incremental
> A man named Samuel Morey had an internal combustion engine running a ferry
> boat across the Connecticut River near Hanover New Hampshire... in 1825...
> it ran on turpentine or whisky... he did try to operate a wagon with his
> engine but as he did not have the clutch thing worked out he blew out the
> back of the barn and nearly killed himself... he stuck to boats... he has
> patents signed by Washington and Jefferson...
>
>
> Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:46:48 +0100
> From: Robin Oomkes <robin.oomkes@SWIFT.COM>
> Subject: Re: new Michelin x tires ( r or w?)
>
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> Yeah right,
>
> Just like the French still maintain that it was Peugeot who invented the
> motor
> car, and the Americans think it was Henry Ford, but the rest of the world
> knows
> it was Gottlieb Daimler and Carl Benz :-)
>
> People in Holland know that Laurensz Coster of Haarlem was the first to
> print
> books, where the rest of the world mistakenly maintain it was Gutenberg...
>
> But seriously, all I know is that Michelin themselves claim to be the
> inventor
> of the radial tyre. Who gave them the idea, I don't know...
>
> Robin
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