Kerb Crawler
Closed Fist of the Badlands
BARNACLES AND NAPPIES!
SaintLucifer said:As for Scotland being a Third-World country, strange that most inventions came from there.
Ishcabittle said:Name 10. You won't and/or can't.
Messenger said:Break out with some Gaelic, homeboy.
SaintLucifer said:Scottish Inventions
1) Adhesive Postage Stamp
2) Anaesthetics
3) Artificial Diamonds
4) Reaping Machine
5) Bank of England
6) Latent Heat
7) Brownian Movement
8) Buicks
9) Chemical Bonds
10) Penicillin
11) The Decimal Point
12) Documentary Films
13) Encylopedia Britannica
14) Fax Machines
15) First Cloned Mammal
16) Flailing Machines
17) Geosciences
18) Golf
19) Historical Novels
20) Hypodermic Syringes
21) Kelvin Scale
22) Percussion Powder
23) Logarithms
24) Maxwell's Equations
25) Marmalade
26) Microwave Ovens
27) Colloid Chemistry
28) Breech-loading Rifle
29) Tubular Steel
30) Quinine
31) Sociology
32) Tires
33) Hollow Pipe Drainage
34) Radar
35) Peter Pan
36) Paleobiology
37) Polarization
38) Cure for Scurvy
39) Hallowe'en
40) Refrigerators
41) Neptune
42) Bakelite
43) Iron Bridges
44) Steam Engine
45) Telephones
46) Thermos
47) Telegraph
48) Television
49) Stereotype
50) Sulphuric Acid
51) Steam-hammer
52) Paraffin
53) Sherlock Holmes
54) Long John Silver
55) Jekyll and Hyde
56) Auld Lang Syne
57) Whiskey
58) US Navy
59) Chilean Navy
60) Economics
61) Cloud Chamber
Oopsy. You wanted only 10.
The credit as to who was the inventor of modern television really comes down to two different people in two different places both working on the same problem at about the same time: Vladimir Kosma Zworykin, a Russian-born American inventor working for Westinghouse, and Philo Taylor Farnsworth, a privately backed farm boy from the state of Utah.
Ishcabittle said:Alright, I'll give you Golf. But the US Navy? Economics? Sulphuric Acid?
Television?
http://www.physlink.com/Education/AskExperts/ae408.cfm
I could be bothered to call you out on the rest of your bullshit, but I think most people can smell it through the ether.
SaintLucifer said:US Navy
Founded by John Paul Jones, a Scotsman. Read about his exploits in any US history book.
Television
A photo-mechanical device invented by John Logie Baird in 1922. He set up the first practical television system in the world in 1929, in Britain. In 1935 Baird worked with the German company, Fernseh, to start the world's first 3-day per week television service.
In 1908, another Scot, Alan Campbell-Swinton, outlined the use of the cathode-ray tube for transmission and reception that is used in modern television. This method replaced Baird's in the 1930's.
Economics
Adam Smith, author of the book "The Wealth of Nations" was a Scot. This book is the first study and analysis of how commerce and free trade create the wealth of a country. He is buried in Greyfriars churchyard, near Edinburgh Castle.
Sulphuric Acid
John Roebuck of Prestonpans, near Edinburgh, invented the lead chamber process for the distillation of sulphuric acid. Sulphuric acid is of central importance in the manufacture of many other chemicals and in metal refining.
I thank you for your attention and thereby rest my case. You are free to apologise at any time.
Ishcabittle said:Notice how he left out the part where I proved him wrong?
Ishcabittle said:Alright, I'll give you Golf. But the US Navy? Economics? Sulphuric Acid?
Television?
http://www.physlink.com/Education/AskExperts/ae408.cfm
I could be bothered to call you out on the rest of your bullshit, but I think most people can smell it through the ether.
Zworykin is usually credited as being the father of modern television. This was because the patent for the heart of the TV, the electron scanning tube, was first applied for by Zworykin in 1923, under the name of an iconoscope. The iconoscope was an electronic image scanner - essentially a primitive television camera. Farnsworth was the first of the two inventors to successfully demonstrate the transmission of television signals, which he did on September 7, 1927, using a scanning tube of his own design. Farnsworth received a patent for his electron scanning tube in 1930. Zworykin was not able to duplicate Farnsworth’s achievements until 1934 and his patent for a scanning tube was not issued until 1938. The truth of the matter is this, that while Zworykin applied for the patent for his iconoscope in 1923, the invention was not functional until some years later and all earlier efforts were of such poor quality that Westinghouse officials ordered him to work on something “more useful.”
Another player of the times was John Logie Baird, a Scottish engineer and entrepreneur who 'achieved his first transmissions of simple face shapes in 1924 using mechanical television. On March 25, 1925, Baird held his first public demonstration of 'television' at the London department store Selfridges on Oxford Street in London. In this demonstration, he had not yet obtained adequate half-tones in the moving pictures, and only silhouettes were visible.' - MZTV
“Zworykin had a patent, but Farnsworth had a picture…”
With patent priority status ruled in favor of Farnsworth, RCA for the first time in its history, began paying royalties for television in 1939.
Ishcabittle said:1923 - The russian applies for a patent.
1925 - A scot, who didn't get an actual picture.
No mention of the Scot at this point.
If the Scot invented it, why was he never paid for it? You were saying?
Enkephalen said:Oh for crying in the rain, this has degenerated into a "whose third leg is bigger" contest.
Enkephalen said:Oh for crying in the rain, this has degenerated into a "whose third leg is bigger" contest.