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Post by deyana on Sept 10, 2010 8:49:48 GMT -5
Do you ever wonder who invented the everyday things that we use and are familiar with? Maybe the inventor was local or maybe from another country or continent altogether.
Do you know of any inventions that came from where you live or are from?
Canadian inventions - just to name a few:
AHEARN, THOMAS 1882 ELECTRIC COOK RANGE
ASSELBERGS, EDWARD A. 1966 INSTANT MASHED POTATOES
BANTING, SIR FREDERICK; MACLEOD; BEST, H.; COLLIP, J. 1923 INSULIN
BELL, ALEXANDER GRAHAM 1889 PHONOGRAPH/GRAMOPHONE
BIGELOW, WILFRED PACEMAKER
BOMBARDIER, JOSEPH ARMAND 1922 SNOWMOBILE(SKIDOO)
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Post by Deleted on Sept 10, 2010 15:11:56 GMT -5
Any idea who invented the Internet?
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Post by rattler on Sept 10, 2010 15:48:05 GMT -5
Any idea who invented the Internet? Here in Mallorca it is supposed the Mallorquin did: We greet each other everyday with saying "Wep!"("Uep"). AFAIK, though, it was not a single invention, but something that processed evolutionary out of ARPANET (the older ones will remember this if they were NATO mil),"Advanced Research Projects Agency Network", and hence the US DoD could probably well claim the medal if they wished. First node ever was set by a Californian University, the first comp to connect bering a SDS Sigma 7, and it remained the IP #1 until 1990, when the IP rules that had been developed in ´83 took effect (making IPs 12 digits). The idea stems from an article from J.C.R. Licklider of BBN (Bolt, Beranek and Newman) from 1962 that he published in a series of discussions about a "galatical net". At the same time, a gentleman with the name of Paul Baran (who worked for RAND) had sine 1958 also developed some ideas of a comms net that would be safe against attacks, his various articles went around two factors that would make it so: Paul Baran, On Distributed Communications Networks (IEEE Transactions on Communications Systems, March 19641. The use of a decentralized net with many comms connections between various nodes, and 2. The fragmentation of messages into "packets" that would travel all the different ways to later be joint up againto one, thus, by double checking, allowing the comms net itself to automatically correct its transmission failures. Another guy, totally sepreate, Leonard Kleinrock, worked at the same time on a theory of how to "cue" packets of information on a comms network and publisherd it in his thesis on the MIT, and later, as a book, in 1964 (but he had not yet captured the idea of fragmentation): Leonard Kleinrock, Communication Nets: Stochastic Message Flow and Design (McGraw-Hill, 1964) Not surprisingly those three were soon called up by the DoD agency ARPA and the first of them became the boss of developing this revolutionary form of comms for the US armed forces. But the project only got wings after Robert Kahn started to imagine the effect of having the ideas of those three joint, which did not happen until 1968, he is also supposed to be the inventor of the word "packet" in this sense. Last, when finally in 1972 Ray Tomlinson of the BBN invented the email the ultimate step to an international comms net was made. Ironically, today the US forces are the army that has the fewest connections to the net following their plan/fright of cyberwarfare... A historical view on the things here (very rough and simplified, but by someone who actively was involved): www.livinginternet.com/i/ii_imp_walden.htmRattler
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Post by Deleted on Sept 23, 2010 6:27:08 GMT -5
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Post by deyana on Sept 23, 2010 16:10:05 GMT -5
^ That's very interesting. So Levi Strauss was an actual person? Yep, that advert made many hot under the collar.
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Post by deyana on Sept 23, 2010 16:17:26 GMT -5
hmm...so that's how the phonograph was invented. I didn't know.
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