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| Tom Potter |
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| Enes |
| Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 9:41 am |
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On 30 Kwi, 15:07, "Tom Potter" <tdp1...@yahoo.com> wrote:
IMO, a modern fridge invention is the best that Einstein made (human*s
live 10 y. longer).
It is unbelived, how could He (as a fabulist, however very known). |
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| Robert J. Kolker |
| Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 11:44 am |
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Tom Potter wrote:
Quote: 1. The Internet - Al Gore
2. The GPS System - Einstein
3. The LASER - Einstein
4, DNA - Einstein
5. Radio/TV - Einstein
6. Transistor - Einstein
7. Information theory - Einstein
8. The refrigerator - Einstein
9. Digital computers - Einstein
10 Compression codes - Einstein
If anyone has a better list, please post it..
You overlook the fact that Einstein was a great odds with quantum
physics. He also had nothing to do with DNA nor with semi-conductors. He
and Szillard did patent a refrigerator. Einstein had nothing to do with
digital computers and compression codes. His buddy von Neuman did have a
great deal to do with computers. Radio was invented (as a practical
technology) by Tesla. TV was invented by Farnsworth.
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| Androcles |
| Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 12:51 pm |
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"Robert J. Kolker" <bobkolker@comcast.net> wrote in message
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| Tom Potter wrote:
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| > 1. The Internet - Al Gore
| > 2. The GPS System - Einstein
| > 3. The LASER - Einstein
| > 4, DNA - Einstein
| > 5. Radio/TV - Einstein
| > 6. Transistor - Einstein
| > 7. Information theory - Einstein
| > 8. The refrigerator - Einstein
| > 9. Digital computers - Einstein
| > 10 Compression codes - Einstein
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| > If anyone has a better list, please post it..
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| You overlook the fact that Einstein was a great odds with quantum
| physics. He also had nothing to do with DNA nor with semi-conductors. He
| and Szillard did patent a refrigerator. Einstein had nothing to do with
| digital computers and compression codes. His buddy von Neuman did have a
| great deal to do with computers. Radio was invented (as a practical
| technology) by Tesla. TV was invented by Farnsworth.
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TV was invented by John Logie Baird
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/baird_logie.shtml |
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| foolsrushin |
| Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 2:25 pm |
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On 30 Apr, 14:07, "Tom Potter" <tdp1...@yahoo.com> wrote:
Excellent! My list contains one item:
1. DNS
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| Dirk Van de moortel |
| Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 2:44 pm |
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Robert J. Kolker <bobkolker@comcast.net> wrote in message
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Quote: Tom Potter wrote:
1. The Internet - Al Gore
2. The GPS System - Einstein
3. The LASER - Einstein
4, DNA - Einstein
5. Radio/TV - Einstein
6. Transistor - Einstein
7. Information theory - Einstein
8. The refrigerator - Einstein
9. Digital computers - Einstein
10 Compression codes - Einstein
If anyone has a better list, please post it..
You overlook the fact that Einstein was a great odds with quantum
physics. He also had nothing to do with DNA nor with semi-conductors. He
and Szillard did patent a refrigerator. Einstein had nothing to do with
digital computers and compression codes. His buddy von Neuman did have a
great deal to do with computers. Radio was invented (as a practical
technology) by Tesla. TV was invented by Farnsworth.
Bob Kolker
It surely looks that there would be no Potter without Einstein.
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| Dirk Van de moortel |
| Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 2:47 pm |
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Dirk Van de moortel <dirkvandemoortel@ThankS-NO-SperM.hotmail.com> wrote in message
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Quote: Robert J. Kolker <bobkolker@comcast.net> wrote in message
a8-dnU6f_87fP4XVnZ2dnUVZ_hudnZ2d@comcast.com
Tom Potter wrote:
1. The Internet - Al Gore
2. The GPS System - Einstein
3. The LASER - Einstein
4, DNA - Einstein
5. Radio/TV - Einstein
6. Transistor - Einstein
7. Information theory - Einstein
8. The refrigerator - Einstein
9. Digital computers - Einstein
10 Compression codes - Einstein
If anyone has a better list, please post it..
You overlook the fact that Einstein was a great odds with quantum
physics. He also had nothing to do with DNA nor with semi-conductors. He
and Szillard did patent a refrigerator. Einstein had nothing to do with
digital computers and compression codes. His buddy von Neuman did have a
great deal to do with computers. Radio was invented (as a practical
technology) by Tesla. TV was invented by Farnsworth.
Bob Kolker
It surely looks that there would be no Potter without Einstein.
"looks that"?
"looks like"?
"looks as if"?
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| CWatters |
| Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 2:52 pm |
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"Robert J. Kolker" <bobkolker@comcast.net> wrote in message
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| Tom Potter wrote:
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| > 1. The Internet - Al Gore
| > 2. The GPS System - Einstein
| > 3. The LASER - Einstein
| > 4, DNA - Einstein
| > 5. Radio/TV - Einstein
| > 6. Transistor - Einstein
| > 7. Information theory - Einstein
| > 8. The refrigerator - Einstein
| > 9. Digital computers - Einstein
| > 10 Compression codes - Einstein
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| > If anyone has a better list, please post it..
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| You overlook the fact that Einstein was a great odds with quantum
| physics. He also had nothing to do with DNA nor with semi-conductors. He
| and Szillard did patent a refrigerator. Einstein had nothing to do with
| digital computers and compression codes. His buddy von Neuman did have a
| great deal to do with computers. Radio was invented (as a practical
| technology) by Tesla. TV was invented by Farnsworth.
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TV was invented by John Logie Baird
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/baird_logie.shtml
Sure about that?....
http://www.physlink.com/Education/AskExperts/ae408.cfm
PS: My father worked for the BBC in the early days of Television. |
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| Greg Neill |
| Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 3:42 pm |
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"Dirk Van de moortel" <dirkvandemoortel@ThankS-NO-SperM.hotmail.com>
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It surely looks that there would be no Potter without Einstein.
"looks that"?
"looks like"?
"looks as if"?
"looks as though". |
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| Dirk Van de moortel |
| Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 3:43 pm |
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Greg Neill <gneillREM@OVEsympatico.ca> wrote in message
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Quote: "Dirk Van de moortel" <dirkvandemoortel@ThankS-NO-SperM.hotmail.com
wrote in message news:314Sj.15025$ww6.7876@newsfe09.ams2
It surely looks that there would be no Potter without Einstein.
"looks that"?
"looks like"?
"looks as if"?
"looks as though".
Yes, that "sounds more like it" ;-)
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| hanson |
| Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 4:47 pm |
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"Robert J. Kolker", the kike <bobkolker@comcast.net> wrote in message
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http://groups.google.com/group/sci.physics/msg/98c37f1eccc54157
2 The Internet - Al Gore
3. The GPS System - Einstein
4. The LASER - Einstein
5. DNA - Einstein
6. Radio/TV - Einstein
7. Transistor - Einstein
8. Information theory - Einstein
9. The refrigerator - Einstein
10. Digital computers - Einstein
11 Compression codes - Einstein
Quote:
If anyone has a better list, please post it..
hanson wrote:
Potter you forgot the most important item:
1. Dingleberries - Einstein
one of which is manifest in Kike Kolker who claims
to be 5.5x smarter then the Goyim. But naturally Kike
Kolker is not smart enough to realize in his kikeivity
that Potter, with/by/thru his list is mocking Einstein
and his Dingleberries (as seen in concurrent posts)
who do behave like Al Gore and "his" internet:
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Kolker, you are getting more and more senile...
which manifested already a few years back when
you posted that:
< http://groups.google.com/group/sci.physics/msg/82caaf5ff6e0038c >
::BK:: "I advocate wide scale genocide on the Moslems", after,
::BK:: on Oct. 18, 04, in news:2tm3f7F202borU1@uni-berlin.de
::BK:: he said "the obvious [final] solution is to kill them all" ... &
::BK:: urges in news:2rfqqdF19g17mU1@uni-berlin.de on 09-23-04,
::BK:: "to put all Xians into asylums for their belief in Christianity".
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.... by which you are making it even more difficult than it already is
for the few decent Jews in Israel to finally have some hope for
peace after 60 years of strive and mayhem... "oye weh!"...
"Trust me!"... "Go figure"... but thanks for the laughs you Dreidel
AHAHAHA... ahahaha.... ahahahanson |
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| Androcles |
| Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 5:20 pm |
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| > | Tom Potter wrote:
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| > | > 1. The Internet - Al Gore
| > | > 2. The GPS System - Einstein
| > | > 3. The LASER - Einstein
| > | > 4, DNA - Einstein
| > | > 5. Radio/TV - Einstein
| > | > 6. Transistor - Einstein
| > | > 7. Information theory - Einstein
| > | > 8. The refrigerator - Einstein
| > | > 9. Digital computers - Einstein
| > | > 10 Compression codes - Einstein
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| > | > If anyone has a better list, please post it..
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| > | You overlook the fact that Einstein was a great odds with quantum
| > | physics. He also had nothing to do with DNA nor with semi-conductors.
He
| > | and Szillard did patent a refrigerator. Einstein had nothing to do
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| > | digital computers and compression codes. His buddy von Neuman did have
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| > | great deal to do with computers. Radio was invented (as a practical
| > | technology) by Tesla. TV was invented by Farnsworth.
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| > TV was invented by John Logie Baird
| > http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/baird_logie.shtml
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| http://www.physlink.com/Education/AskExperts/ae408.cfm
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| PS: My father worked for the BBC in the early days of Television.
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"On December 2, 1922, in Sorbonne, France, Edwin Belin, an Englishman, who
held the patent for the transmission of photographs by wire as well as fiber
optics and radar, demonstrated a mechanical scanning device that was an
early precursor to modern television. Belin’s machine took flashes of light
and directed them at a selenium element connected to an electronic device
that produced sound waves. These sound waves could be received in another
location and remodulated into flashes of light on a mirror. "
That's a fax machine, not a TV.
"On March 25, 1925, Baird held his first public demonstration of
'television' at the London department store Selfridges on Oxford Street in
London."
That's low definition closed circuit TV.
"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."
Applying for a patent for something that doesn't yet work is premature.
"Farnsworth was the first of the two inventors to successfully demonstrate
the transmission of television signals, which he did on September 7, 1927"
Adding radio transmission (already invented by Marconi) converts CCTV
to TV.
As I understand it, 1925 came before 1927.
Yes, I'm quite sure about that, althought there may be some grey area
as to when facsimile image by telephone becomes CCTV and CCTV
becomes high definition Colour Cable TeleVision. When does
"improvement" become "invention"? Did Werner von Braun "invent"
the Saturn V or is it an improved German V2?
PS. My father worked as a clerk for the LMS, my grandfather as foreman
in a locomotive repair and overhaul shop, and my great-grandfather worked
as a guard on the GWR. My maternal grandfather was a sailmaker in WWI and
was torpedoed on board HMS Arethusa in WWII.
http://www.hms-arethusa.co.uk/
This has nothing to do with television. |
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| Benj |
| Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 6:51 pm |
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On Apr 30, 3:52 pm, "CWatters"
<colin.watt...@NOturnersoakSPAM.plus.com> wrote:
Well this is terrific reference given that it lists Marconi as the
inventor or radio! But they are correct about the "invention of TV
being vague and indeterminant. TV was around in the 1920s. And yes,
there were actual commercial broadcasts! The scanning was mechanical
(spinning disk with spiral holes) and the image ended up about 1 inch
square. Non-mechanical electronic TV which would be classified as the
beginning of "modern" TV was between Zworkin and old Philo T. I can
tell you from first hand experience the Zworkin Iconoscopes were a
total POS suitable only for smeary images in bright sunlight! The
high gain Philo tubes produced broadcast quality images in reasonable
light levels. They were rather prone to "burn" however, from bright
light. But as for an "inventor" of TV, I doubt there is one. mostly it
was a long steady climb of small improvements building upon previous
art.
*I* worked in the early days of television!
We should mention that in addition to the Internet, Algore also
invented AGW! |
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| Benj |
| Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 7:05 pm |
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On Apr 30, 9:07 am, "Tom Potter" <tdp1...@yahoo.com> wrote:
Quote: 1. The Internet - Al Gore
2. The GPS System - Einstein
3. The LASER - Einstein
4, DNA - Einstein
5. Radio/TV - Einstein
6. Transistor - Einstein
7. Information theory - Einstein
8. The refrigerator - Einstein
9. Digital computers - Einstein
10 Compression codes - Einstein
If anyone has a better list,
please post it..
1. Anthropogenic Global Warming - Algore
2. Atomic and Hydrogen bomb - Einstein
3. Telemarketing - Einstein
4. Bass Guitar - Einstein
5. SUVs - Einstein
6. Analog computers -Einstein
7. Tubes/valves - Einstein
8. "Stealth" technology - Einstein
9. Burning food for vehicle fuel - Einstein
10. LSD and all other psychoactive drugs - Einstein
But the real question is just WHO of the myriad array of people in
this newsgroup who are "smarter than Einstein" are going to be getting
credit for the major inventions of the NEXT century? |
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| Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 7:25 pm |
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Robert J. Kolker <bobkolker@comcast.net> wrote:
Quote: Tom Potter wrote:
1. The Internet - Al Gore
2. The GPS System - Einstein
3. The LASER - Einstein
4, DNA - Einstein
5. Radio/TV - Einstein
6. Transistor - Einstein
7. Information theory - Einstein
8. The refrigerator - Einstein
9. Digital computers - Einstein
10 Compression codes - Einstein
If anyone has a better list, please post it..
You overlook the fact that Einstein was a great odds with quantum
physics. He also had nothing to do with DNA nor with semi-conductors. He
and Szillard did patent a refrigerator. Einstein had nothing to do with
digital computers and compression codes. His buddy von Neuman did have a
great deal to do with computers. Radio was invented (as a practical
technology) by Tesla. TV was invented by Farnsworth.
Not to mention that by that logic, the ancient Chinese invented the
Maxim machine gun.
And DNA wasn't invented, it was discovered.
--
Jim Pennino
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