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Old 08-05-2005, 04:13 AM
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http://inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aa090100a.htm

some of this I never knew before, I felt that this should be posted..., so posted it is!
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Interesting. Except...

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Jetliner ...the first jetliner was designed by James Floyd in 1949
Which is very definitely not right. The De Havilland Comet was both designed first and flew first (though it only beat the Jetliner by 13 days). Makes me wonder how accurate some of the other entries are too.
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Is it talking about the actual inventing or just who pantented whatever? If it is talking about actual inventing then there are a few that I would question also.

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Pointy: I believe what is important is the actually engine, which means you credit The United Kingdom, and The Germans. But you're right, the DeHavilland Coment 1 was the first Jet Liner, which first flew in 1951
edit: My mistake, it's British, not Canadian, you're right about it not being Canadian, unless more on the story is found...


stripysox: If it was actual inventing, then lightbulbs should be included in there (Edison only got credit, he also made working ones, but it's not his invention)

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Also: I wonder why pablum isn't in there, I didn't see it, and I KNOW it'd Canadian, so is muskol, bushplanes STOL planes and kerosene

If concepts where among the page, it'd also include hovercraft
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i thought the lightbulb was actually invented by a german, might well be wrong though.
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i thought the lightbulb was actually invented by a german, might well be wrong though.
you are correct
it was Heinrich Göbel
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you know, all of this is confusing

we should make a thread to set history straight
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you are correct
it was Heinrich Göbel
I knew late night TV would come in handy one day!
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