Greatest Inventions?

and how about, the handy man all purpuse fix all: duct tape!!!!! :lol:

 

Language??
(As an invention I mean, I'm not castigating anyone here :lol: )

 

I think that Language & numers etc count with fire & the wheel.

Good call though.

 

Grieg wrote:

In my haste I left out:

efficient mass production (Henry Ford)

The internal combustion engine (Lenoir, Otto, Daimler, Maybach et al )

air conditioning (a personal favorite) WillisCarrier

 

Has anyone seen Jeremy Clarkson's 'Inventions that changed the world' edition on the gun.

It was pointed out that the precision needed to get accuracy and mass production led to the development of precision tooling etc which came at just the right time for steam engines etc and the industrila revolution.

 

Really? I have heard of Jermery Clarkson's stuff but I have never seen it. One thing though, the gun was invented like 300 years before the Industrial Revolution and mass production was not implemented until Ford and his factories, long after the gun's arrival.

 

Not very accurate though, this required precision engineering to accuratley bore out the barrel (the same technique was used to produce steam engines that didn't leak) and if you type American Civil War mass gun production into Google you'll get a lot of hits which suggest Henry Ford was not the first.

Here is an example

http://www.aagunsales.com/Main/Firearm% ... 20-%201968

 

Well, I stand corrected, I was thinking mass production in the sense Henry Ford is famous for, thank you for that info. That is the most interesting thing about an invention; what it will allow to be invented or improved in the future.

 

the springfield armoury invented mass production and like what was said previoulsy it was during the american civil war

 

My vote goes to John Harrisons seaworthy clock that could help sailors calculate longitude!

 

john.

There was a great drama/documentary about this a few years ago, entitled 'Longitude'. Did you see it?

 

Absolutely.
spellbinding viewing!
Give this guy your vote!!!!!!!!
without him,you wouldnt know where America was,you'd keep bouncing off other countries!

 

What about the mass production of pulleys in the naval yards of the UK which were pre american civil war?

http://www.makingthemodernworld.org.uk/ ... 20/IC.052/

Some of these machines still exist in the yards in Portsmouth slowly decaying after stopping less than 50 years ago.

FNG

 

Yes, I have seen it. I think I have all 5 episodes here, in case I want to watch them again.

 

Just to point out - one can have mass production without a Ford-style assembly line. Mass production simply means making an awful lot of something, and is perfectly possible to do without being as efficient as an assembly line etc. You just need a larger factory and more workers.

 

Well done Ricky.

What we have needed here for a while, is a clear distinction between plain mass production & Mass production on an assembly line.

 

They were interesting programs.

Clarkson may be an arrogant git but he is a good presenter - he was a guest presenter on Top of the Pops recently and made his views of some of the 'music' very well known - 'its absolute garbage'.

 

In addition

Veltins lemon +, mhmmmmmmmm greatest invention after
the bed and Veltins energy +. My personal hitlist

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Bessemer Process for producing large amounts of reliably high-quality steel?

 

I choose my words carefully, to no avail it seems
Ford didn't invent mass production however he took it to a much higher level of efficiency and practicality than had been previously achieved. For that he is credited.