What Invention Am I ?

[yarnellcg17]

In this thread you can introduce your invention however you would like to after you come up with the answer to the previous post

Example answer ---> Hockey Stick.. then your invention intro.-->

In 1893 I came into existence as just an experiment..
In the 20th Century I was put to doing great things that changed society.

In the 1920's thru the 1980's I gave you great times and great memories.

In the darkest times I helped you get thru crisis..when you needed me the most..

What invention am I?

[JoeN]

automobiles :confused:

[Arkacia]

I'm going to guess the radio.

[yarnellcg17]

Radio is correct :D

[Arkacia]

Invented in Hungary in 1938 this invention was a vast improvement on its predecessors. It is one of the most commonly used tools today by people world wide in all walks of life and is small enough to fit in a pocket.

[billy]

I am going to say a pocket watch although i am not really sure when it was invented.

[JoeN]

Well I'm gonna say a pencil

[yarnellcg17]

The Ball Point Pen

[Arkacia]

yarnell has the correct answer, it is the ballpoint pen invented by Laslo Biro.

Your turn now :).

[yarnellcg17]

In the 1970's I was an audio optical experiment..by 1979.. 2 companies merged together to get me going..By 1982 I hit the market..but I had to wait 3 yrs for my counterpart to be invented and marketed for computer use..and another 4 yrs for music..

What Invention Am I ?

[JsWoman]

A tv?? That's the best idea I can come up with, right at this moment, but I think that should have been out, by this time. Oh, well. Let me know.

[Arkacia]

All that comes to my mind is a compact disc. I'm sure they started out for music though, not sure.

[yarnellcg17]

The answer is The Compact Disc
The Music Industry made more use of it before any other commercial industry did..Bill Gates was very slow:D

[Arkacia]

Sorry everyone. I completly forgot about this.

This invention was thought up by a woman from Alabama US in 1903. She patented it in 1905. It became a standard addition to all streetcars to improve safety in the rain 10 years later.

[JsWoman]

Tire treads?? :D LOL (Prolly isn't, but wanted to at least make a guess on it.)

**Edit - Realized I was wrong, for sure... Windsheild Wipers should be the right answer, I think. Least thats what Yarnell told me. :o Teach me to keep putting answers without doing any research. :p

[Arkacia]

Yes you are right JsWoman.

Your turn :).

[JsWoman]

Ok, here goes....

In 1714, the last year of her reign, Queen Anne granted a patent to Henry Mill for this invention. It was another 100 years before another of this kind was invented.

Hope that's enough to go on.

[yarnellcg17]

Typewriter


I was developed by Alfred Mosher Butts in 1948. James Brunot did some rearranging of the squares and simplified the rules with me. A copyright was granted on for me December 1, 1948..I'm very popular online as well..

What Invention Am I ?

[JsWoman]

I looked it up... I see for 1949 with both those people making scrabble, but did it come into exsistence in 1948, not 1949??

[yarnellcg17]

Yes Js Scrabble is the invention.. :)

In 1948 it was invented.. never was patented.. then basically revised in 1949 with a patent..and is the current one style board game still used today.. :D

as you know I am a diehard Scrabble addict :D

[JsWoman]

Though there had been 2 theoretical plans made for me, I was first made in 1769, for the military, by a French engineer and mechanic.

[yarnellcg17]

Tractor

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I have been around since ancient times.. but a cotton buyer at the Johnson & Johnson company in 1920 made me different..and by the end of the 20th Century I even had style for all kids to want to use me in there time of need..
Some adults too.. :angel2:

Hint: I am stuck on______ Cause _______ is stuck on me..


What Invention Am I

[JsWoman]

Hmm... Well, the first hint was too difficult to understand, as far as I am concerned, but this addition just makes it too easy.... :rolleyes: Isn't there a nice middle ground. :D Bandaids

My inventor was born in 1765 and died in 1825. I helped innovate the harvesting of this item, but farmers didn't want to pay what they thought was an exhorbiant amount, so they made their own pirated versions of me.

[JoeN]

I'm not sure but i would say a plow.

[yarnellcg17]

Cotton Gin
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In 1964.. I looked like an ordinary block of wood..but I had a button that made me do a function..
In 1968..Years before personal computers and desktop information processing
became commonplace or even practicable..I astonished my inventors colleagues..
At the Fall Joint Computer Conference in San Francisco that year I was put to the test by demonstration using an utterly primitive 192 kilobyte mainframe computer located 25 miles away!

What Invention Am I ?

[JoeN]

A number machine or calculator.

[JsWoman]

Computer mouse??? I just looked and the first was made out of wood and had wheels.

[yarnellcg17]

Very good Js your turn..and good try JoeN

[JsWoman]

Well, glad that I am coming up with more and more of those answers, so I can actually participate in more of these threads.

In 1836 my inventor first demonstrated my abilities. With the advent of radio communications, an international version of me became more widely used.

What invention am I?

[JoeN]

I'm going to say Morse Code. That sounds like a good guess.

[yarnellcg17]

Electromagnetic Telegraph

[JsWoman]

It's Joen's turn!! You were right. :D Congrats. Yarnell, you were close, but I was actually looking for what was being sent over the telegraph. I'm sure you'll get it, next time. :D

[yarnellcg17]

Hi Js My dear friend :D

I wanted to tell ya how I came up with my answer :D

In 1836 my inventor first demonstrated my abilities

When I did my research this is what gave me my thought :D

Most sources say that Samuel F. B. Morse envisioned the basic idea of an electromagnetic telegraph in 1832 while making the transatlantic trip back from Europe. Morse demonstrated a working telegraph set in 1836. The introduction of the circuit relay followed soon after, making telegraph transmission possible over any distance.

Very cool tho..hehehehe :D Your turn JoeN :D

[Freakums]

I wouold like to comment upon the telegraph, of which many, many versiosn were mad elong before Morse, most of them supreior,
however, Morse made one that was cheap enough to consider useable, since it only required one wire, the other end of the circiut being the ground.

Soem other telegrapghs included:
1812: the garden telegraph. Needed 52 wires. worked by runnign electrical current through corks, which would repel each other, thus revealign a letter (52 is twice 26, two wires a letter, closed circuits) this was used only in one persons castle as a novelty, and a wa of communicatign to his wife from the other end of the garden.

1814: the black/white telegragh. an electric curretn would move a needle to the left or right, to communicate in code. Needed two wires. Could only work over a few hundred metres becuase of the electricity needed to move the needle. Amplifer would not be invented till about 1910.

1830: the optical telegraph: needed three wires, could work over kilometres, flashes of light were reflected by a small, small mirrror, which rotated very little, and illuminated letters. Only was not useful becuasew it needed a fixed point of light, (for the mirror to reflect properly) and needed three wires. (a pair and a one which completed the circuit at the other end uising the ground)

there are also many other interestign attempts at telegraphs.
Morse's was the simplest, that'swhy it succeeded. All he needed was electricity, while the rest used electricity to communicate the message otherwise. All his did was detect electric current.

kind of foolish of all the tohet telegrapgh tinkerer's to amke soem c0omplex things, eh?

[JoeN]

In 1911 this doctor/former Olympian (gold medal in pole vaulting) was inspired to create this toy when he saw a some workmen positioned and riveted the steel beams of an electrical power-line tower. Even though a British toy company was selling similar kit my inventor made me more realistic. By 1913 living rooms across the country were transformed into miniature metropoles, filled with skyscrapers, bridges and railways.

Sorry I didn't realize that we could research the answers.

[JsWoman]

Electric Train sets?? I don't know. I've looked and looked, but I'm not seeing a good enough answer. So, there's my guess.

**Yeah, reseaching is allowed.

[yarnellcg17]

Erector Set
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I was an accidental by-product of war-time (World War II) radar research using magnetrons.. after WWII In 1946..My inventor who worked for the Raytheon Corporation was working on magnetrons. One day at work.. he had a candy bar in his pocket..and found that it had melted...The magnetrons caused the melt by producing a microwave..He then thought how well this accidental by-product of war-time could serve another purpose.. but as an appliance..after years of working with me..The Raytheon Corporation produced me and put me out on the market in 1954..I was named the 1161 Radarange..

What Invention Am I ?

[Freakums]

thats easy. The radarnage was the first commercially avalible microwave!
If I diodn't knwo that, there is stil;l the matter of how obvious it is in your post!
:D

I'll wiat till you confirm that, none-the-less!

[yarnellcg17]

You are right on target Freakums with Microwave..

You're next :D

[JsWoman]

Well, I know it's not my turn, but it's been 2 weeks, and Freakums hasn't come back to post a new invention, so I'm going to.

I am said to be one of the greatest 20th century inventions. I came into being based on the inventions and discoveries of many men and scientists. The 'first' generation of were not entirely electronic, having had a small motor with a spinning disc and a neon lamp. The first ideas of me started before the 1930's, and what was come up with then would not be compatible with my modern day version.

[yarnellcg17]

Television
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I was designed in 1979, first commercially available in 1981 as Osborne 1
Although I was large and heavy compared to today's newer, I still was a tiny CRT monitor, I had a near-revolutionary impact on business, as professionals were able to take their computer and data with them for the first time. This and other "luggables" were about the size of a portable sewing machine, and importantly could be carried on a commercial aircraft. However, I was not possible to run on batteries; I had to be plugged in..

What Invention Am I?

[JsWoman]

I found this on the Osbourne 1.. optional battery pack. So it didn't need to be plugged in all the time that you wanted to use it..

Anyway, the first laptop portable computer. :D

[yarnellcg17]

Laptop is correct

[JsWoman]

I was Invented a little over a century ago, and am the world's most popular, versatile garment, crossing boundaries of class, age and nationality. From my origins as pure workwear, I have spread through every level of the fashion spectrum, embraced internationally for my unmatched comfort and appeal. Constantly in demand, I have survived the passing of both trends and time, capturing the ethos of each succeeding decade. While my charisma springs from my legendary American roots, my commercial strength rests on innovation and interpretation in the hands of makers around the world.

[yarnellcg17]

Levi Jeans??

[JsWoman]

I was thinking jeans in general, but thats close enough. Congrats, Yarnell, your turn.

[yarnellcg17]

General Motors tested me on the 1973 model Chevrolet that were only sold for government use. GM later did offer an option to the public of driver side of me in full-sized Oldsmobile's and Buick's in 1975 and 1976, Cadillac's too during those same years. I was offered once again as an option on the 1984 Ford Tempo. By 1988, Chrysler became the first company to offer me in restraint systems as standard equipment. In 1994, TRW began production of the first gas-inflated version of me

What Invention Am I ?

[yarnellcg17]

Hmmmm..no.. not headphones
Hint: It's a standard safety device in all vehicles 1998 to present day.. :)

[JsWoman]

Seat belt lock, possibly?? That's what it sounds like to me, without doing research on it.


Further evaluation brings me to the air bag... Although, from the information given, it's not hard to figure out why I came to my original answer.

[yarnellcg17]

Air bag is correct Js :)

Your next to deliver a good hard invention quiz :)

[JsWoman]

Ok, I was created on June 14, 1777, but since there was no set way on my design, there were many different versions of me. The navy used a staggered pattern.

[JoeN]

I don't know why but for some reason i'm gonna guess submarines.

[brownpossom]

is it a cd?

[yarnellcg17]

The American ( US ) Flag

[JsWoman]

All good guesses. Yarnell is correct though. The Navy used a staggered pattern with the stars, 3, 2, 3, 2... That's what I was referring to.

Yarnell is up, now.

[yarnellcg17]

I am a 2 cylinder engine..steam powered in 1867..
and another of me was powered by coal..I was basically considered a small train.. but I also may have powered something else.. machine wise..and I may have given birth to this road machine alot earlier than most think..

What Invention Am I ?

[JsWoman]

In 1867 Sylvester Howard Roper invented the 2 cylinder steam powered motorcycle.

[yarnellcg17]

Correct Js.. you are next my friend :D

[JsWoman]

Some say I was invented in China around the 11th Century, others say the Romans invented me around the time of Caesar. Truth is that tribes in Africa and Australia invented the first concept of me, but the modern version was conceived in China much later than the 11th Century. More like the 16th or 17th century.

[yarnellcg17]

Tooth Brush
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In April of 1869, he obtained a patent for me (patent #re. 5,504). This device enabled trains to be stopped with fail-safe accuracy by the locomotive engineer for the first time and was eventually adopted on the majority of the world's railroads. Previously, train accidents were frequent since it had to be applied manually on each car by different brakemen following a signal from the engineer. Seeing potential profit in the invention of me, Westinghouse organized a Company in July of 1869 with himself acting as president. He continued to make many changes to me and later developed the automatic system of me and the triple valve.

What Invention Am I ?

[JsWoman]

George Westinghouse obtained the patent in 1869 for air brakes for trains.

[yarnellcg17]

Correct Js :D

[JsWoman]

Ok, I'm thinking this will be simple, but here goes, anyway.

The first great success for me came on an October morning in 1945 when a crowd of over 5,000 people jammed the entrance of New York’s Gimbels Department Store. The day before, Gimbels had taken out a full-page ad in the New York Times promoting the first sale of me in the United States. The ad described the me as "fantastic and miraculous".

[yarnellcg17]

The basic concept of mebegan in 1947, when researchers looked at crude mobile (car) phones and realized that by using small cells (range of service area) with frequency reuse they could increase the traffic capacity of mobile phones substantially. However at that time, the technology to do so was nonexistent.


By 1977, AT&T and Bell Labs had constructed a prototype of. A year later, public trials of the new system were started in Chicago with over 2000 trial customers. In 1979, in a separate venture, the first commercial cellular telephone system began operation in Tokyo. In 1981, Motorola and American Radio telephone started system test in the Washington/Baltimore area. By 1982, the slow-moving FCC finally authorized commercial service for the USA. A year later, the first American commercial analog service or AMPS (Advanced Mobile Phone Service) was made available in Chicago by Ameritech

What Invention Am I ?

[JsWoman]

Cellular Phone. EASY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[yarnellcg17]

Cell Phone is right Js :D

Hmmm..I'm slipping on toughys :eek:

[JsWoman]

You are slipping, here and on flags. :p Good luck with mine, I think it's easy.

In 1988 my first bottle came off the assembly line to the cheers of the people who made me. I am used on cars and am applied in one application.

What am I??

[psikid@cox.net]

anti freeze or windsheild wiper fluid?

[yarnellcg17]

Wet Paint invented in June 1988http://www.dark-future.org/images/smiles/smile.gif

[brownpossom]

armoral maybe

[JsWoman]

Wet paint.. Combining paint and wax. Yarnell is next.

[yarnellcg17]

In 1971, IBM introduced me..I was an 8" plastic disk coated ( 4.75 inches bigger ) with magnetic iron oxide; data was written to me and read from me from that type surface. I was considered a revolutionary device at the time for my portability which provided a new and easy physical means of transporting data from computer to computer.
In 1981, Sony introduced the first drives and I was 4.75 inches smaller This version of me is familiar to today's computer user.


What Invention Am I ?

[JsWoman]

Umm.. The floppy disk??

[yarnellcg17]

The Floppy Disk is correct :)

ok Js..lets see what ya have to stump me on the new one up from ya :)