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Inventions

What are the best and the most useful inventions of the mankind in the 20th and 21st
centuries?
There so many great inventions discovered in the 20th and 21th century, but I think that
 Internet.
 Television. ...
 Antibiotics. ...
 The Submarine. ...
 Rocketry. ...
 Automobile. ...
 Airplane. Are the most useful ones

What famous inventors do you know? What were their inventions? Do you know
anything about the inventions of Leonardo da Vinci?

I know a lot of famous inventors and here are some of them.

 Archimedes (Archimedes screw, 3rd century BC)


 Cornelis van Drebbel (submarine, 1620)
 Blaise Pascal (adding machine, 1642–44)
 Evangelista Torricelli (barometer, 1643)
 Isaac Newton (reflecting telescope, 1668)
 Anthony van Leeuwenhoek (single-lens microscope, about 1670)
 Benjamin Franklin (Franklin stove, about 1740; lightning rod, about 1750;
bifocals, 1784)
 Benjamin Banneker (wooden clock, 1753)
 George M. Pullman (Pullman railroad sleeping car, 1865)
 Alfred Nobel (dynamite, 1867)
 Margaret Knight (machine to produce square-bottomed paper bags, 1868)
 Christopher Latham Sholes (typewriter, 1868)
 George Westinghouse (air brake for trains, 1869)
 Elijah McCoy (lubrication device for railroad cars, 1872)
 Alexander Graham Bell (telephone, 1876)
 Thomas Edison (phonograph, 1877; electric lightbulb, about 1879)
 Samuel P. Langley (instrument for measuring heat from Sun, 1878; early
aircraft, 1896)
 Granville Woods (electrical systems for railways, 1880s–90s)
 Nikola Tesla (alternating-current electric motor, 1880–88; Tesla coil, 1891)
 Lewis Latimer (carbon-filament lightbulb, 1881)
 Karl Benz (automobile with an internal-combustion engine, 1885)
 Emil Berliner (phonograph record disc, 1887)
 George Eastman (Kodak camera, 1888)
 James Naismith (basketball, 1891)
 Rudolf Diesel (diesel engine, 1892)
 Guglielmo Marconi (wireless telegraph, 1896)
 George Washington Carver (products from peanuts, sweet potatoes, and
soybeans, 1890s–1940s)

As an engineer, Leonardo Da Vinci invented the parachute, the


helicopter, an armored fighting vehicle, the use of concentrated
solar power, the car and a gun, a rudimentary theory of plate
tectonics and the double hull.

How did the invention of television change people’s life? Do you think it is a
useful invention? What is the role of television in your life? How often do you
watch it?
Television has revolutionized communication and knowledge
sharing. TV provides immediate information about current ivents,
from live sports to breaking news. It helps people from different
countries to communicate and understand each other.
Before TV, newspapers and radio were the only news sources.
These sources provided information, but they couldn't show
events graphically or in real-time.
Television makes education more accessible. Educational TV
shows are interesting and easy to comprehend for all ages and
cover anything from basic reading and math's to sophisticated
science and technology. That’s why it is a very useful invention
that entertains and educates people. Personally, I use TV only
when important events are translated there or I want to watch
something interesting. But, of course, TV should not be the only
way for us to have fun. There are so many resourses to do it
another way , so we don’t need to concentrate on TV too much.

Do you believe that one day people will live on the moon and on other
planets? Why isn’t it possible today?
None of the planets in our solar system hosts a climate akin to our earth. The most basic
thing we would need is a gravitational field nearly the same as that of the earth. None of
the planets have a gravitational field similar to our earth. But due to the development of
technology I think that people could create some special conditionals for themselves to
live on other planets. A lot of innovation in rockets, space stations, nuclear energy, anti
matter and dark energy. Ilon Mask wants to create a life on Mars and who knows maybe
he will do it.

What would you invent if your a scientist?


If I would get a chance to make an invention, I would try to create a device for
household. People like everything that makes their life easier that’s why my
invention would come them in handy. It may seem that we have already created
everything but it’s not true. Probably, I would find something that we usually
have struggles with and I would help to reduce that problem.

What do you think is the worst invention of the mankind?


I believe that a lot of people would support my opinion about the worst invention
ever. Destructive and lethal weapon, nuclear bomb. No one can be credited with
producing the world's first atomic bomb but two men had outsize achievements in
that effort: physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer and Army Lt. Gen. Leslie Groves. I
don’t understand why people create such dangerous thing that can destroy them.
The nuclear bomb is the reason of fear for many people and the way of
manipulation between countries.

Can you name some inventions are you looking forward to?
I hope that in the future people will invent some medicine to heal
strong and lethal deseases , so everyone will have a chance to
live. Discovering new technologies is also important, but helping
people should be a priority.

What do you know about cloning?


I know that cloning is the processes of creating an exact genetic replica
of another cell, tissue or organism. The copied material, which has the
same genetic makeup as the original, is referred to as a clone.

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