"History
is the study of the past and present events so as to predict the
future" said teacher penlope in my S1..that was in 2006. Ofcourse by
then i was not mature as I am today.....because if I was, I would have
discovered then that most of what there is today were invented late 19th
century and popularised or put to use in the 20th C. And now that I
have a somewhat developed acumen, I can't help thinking hard over this
last magic century....and why Americans only popularised what Germans
Invented.
I have highlighed 8 biggest inventions of all time......most of which were put to use in the twentieth century;
To begin with, when carl Benz invented what is regarded as the first car, a motor wagen in 1886, it did not become widely available and recognised until 1906 when Henry Ford invented the model T, and that was the birth of all modern cars we see today.
Texts dating from 2750 BCE show that people were aware of shocks from electric fish...and from then on, numerous and unsuccessful researches and experiments about electricity by scientists like Alessandro volta and George Ohm....and maybe Micheal Faraday who invented the electric motor in 1821.....and while Joseph Swan and Thomas Edison tried at it, it was not until 1905 when Albert Einstein, a German born American experimented the photoelectric effect that electricity turned from a scientific curiosity into an essential tool for modern life and a driving force of the second Industrial revolution.
Before the world could get over that excitement, when a certain German testedhis "machine" that could fly in the air, the Wright brothers were in a very wide plan of remodelling a self-propelled machine which could fly over long distances......indeed around 1905.....they took their first recognised long flight.
Well, for the interest of time and our poor reading culture, I will list the remaining five; the train, telephone, television, computer and the Internet.
These are the basic linchpins of modern life. And I will not think about why the 20th C.....not 16th, 15th, or 12th centuries. Perharps then people were not knowledgeable. My focus will be why is it a Germans-American show. Did the world wars really play a big role in these inventions? Remember Germans started these wars and Americans ended them with bombing of Japan in 1945. And before that, it was the German chancellor Bismarck who shaped the world in the Berlin conference.
That thought, if there is any invention awaiting in the proceeding centuries.....greater than the eight I've mentioned (car, electricity, train, telephone, television, aeroplane, computer and the internet), then I will be waiting to witness history being made......as I also figure out what i can invent.
Remember the little we see in the 21st century are just a shadow of the great inventions; social media for instance is a shadow of the internet and computers.
Africa...don't you think its our time to think? Don't you think the whiteman is exhuasted to think of anything more? Isn't it our time to invent? Think hard....and harder......and hardest.
Nevertheless, always respect the whiteman!
I have highlighed 8 biggest inventions of all time......most of which were put to use in the twentieth century;
To begin with, when carl Benz invented what is regarded as the first car, a motor wagen in 1886, it did not become widely available and recognised until 1906 when Henry Ford invented the model T, and that was the birth of all modern cars we see today.
Texts dating from 2750 BCE show that people were aware of shocks from electric fish...and from then on, numerous and unsuccessful researches and experiments about electricity by scientists like Alessandro volta and George Ohm....and maybe Micheal Faraday who invented the electric motor in 1821.....and while Joseph Swan and Thomas Edison tried at it, it was not until 1905 when Albert Einstein, a German born American experimented the photoelectric effect that electricity turned from a scientific curiosity into an essential tool for modern life and a driving force of the second Industrial revolution.
Before the world could get over that excitement, when a certain German testedhis "machine" that could fly in the air, the Wright brothers were in a very wide plan of remodelling a self-propelled machine which could fly over long distances......indeed around 1905.....they took their first recognised long flight.
Well, for the interest of time and our poor reading culture, I will list the remaining five; the train, telephone, television, computer and the Internet.
These are the basic linchpins of modern life. And I will not think about why the 20th C.....not 16th, 15th, or 12th centuries. Perharps then people were not knowledgeable. My focus will be why is it a Germans-American show. Did the world wars really play a big role in these inventions? Remember Germans started these wars and Americans ended them with bombing of Japan in 1945. And before that, it was the German chancellor Bismarck who shaped the world in the Berlin conference.
That thought, if there is any invention awaiting in the proceeding centuries.....greater than the eight I've mentioned (car, electricity, train, telephone, television, aeroplane, computer and the internet), then I will be waiting to witness history being made......as I also figure out what i can invent.
Remember the little we see in the 21st century are just a shadow of the great inventions; social media for instance is a shadow of the internet and computers.
Africa...don't you think its our time to think? Don't you think the whiteman is exhuasted to think of anything more? Isn't it our time to invent? Think hard....and harder......and hardest.
Nevertheless, always respect the whiteman!
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