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Inventors&Explorers Who Changed the World

Inventors&Explorers Who Changed the World

  • Galieo Galilei

    Votes: 7 9.7%

  • Leonardo Da Vinci

    Votes: 20 27.8%

  • Nikola Tesla

    Votes: 36 50.0%

  • Thomas Edison

    Votes: 11 15.3%

  • Alexander Graham Bell

    Votes: 2 2.8%
  • Total voters
    72
"Pyramids were built as power plants and there was an energy link between them.Nikola Tesla's free energy is related with the pyramids..."

You don't really believe that do you? I'm a bit shocked that History channel ran that piece. They must be hurting to fill time slots. There's a difference between saying "Pyramids were built as..." and saying, "Some nutty guy who got on TV thinks that pyramids were built as..."

Here's a real working energy revolution in dire need of exploitation, developed by a team at Los Alamos and proven feasible since the 1970s:

Heat Mining, Hot Dry Rock, Enhanced Geothermal Systems (EGS)
http://www.opednews.com/articles/What-Are-the-Energy-Altern-by-Joe-Giambrone-110701-789.html

And part one of the series mentioned the solar power tower in Spain:

http://www.counterpunch.org/2011/06/24/nuclear-power-what-s-the-alternative/
 
Michael Dalton said:
Alfred Russel Wallace, a guy who thought outside the box, and was a force in creating two separate sciences... the science of evolution, and what would eventually be called plate tectonics or continental drift.

Not only did he independently come up the theory of Natural Selection (Darwin might have used much of his theory to fill in the gaps of his own and became a bigger star), and his work in Bio geography which became the basis for continental drift. Man, it's one thing to be the first (or co-first) to say we evolved from apes, but to also say that continents moved is unparalleled. What is more surprising is how few people know of his work. It makes inventing the computer mouse look... well mouse like to a giant.
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Michael, you're information about Alfred Wallace coming up with the theory of continental drift is wrong. The idea that continents drift apart was first suggested by a creationist, Antonio Snider, in the year 1859. Unfortunately, his research went unnoticed because a book called "Origin of the Species" was published by Charles Darwin during the same year. Antonio Snider came up with this theory based on the scriptures of the Bible in Genesis 1:9. He believed during Noah's flood there was not a "continental drift", but rather a "continental sprint." For over 100 years the majority of scientists believed continents were stationary.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Snider-Pellegrini
 
Joe ,thousands of years people tought the earth was flat and didn't know about other continents such as America .There are pyramids all over the world and there is a link between them.When it comes to solar and egs they are known for a long time and like it says in the article you posted the problem is not technological it is political that's why the technology was sold to other countries am I right?
 
Jeremy Wiles said:
Michael, you're information about Alfred Wallace coming up with the theory of continental drift is wrong. The idea that continents drift apart was first suggested by a creationist, Antonio Snider, in the year 1859. Unfortunately, his research went unnoticed because a book called "Origin of the Species" was published by Charles Darwin during the same year. Antonio Snider came up with this theory based on the scriptures of the Bible in Genesis 1:9. He believed during Noah's flood there was not a "continental drift", but rather a "continental sprint." For over 100 years the majority of scientists believed continents were stationary.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Snider-Pellegrini
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You have to read further into what Wallace proposed about Biogeography, he was one of the first to give clear proof of the fact that continents moved suggested a series of moving plates highlighted by the distribution of old world and new world species, but failed to come up with the mechanism. He gave a speech to the royal geographic society where he highlighted his theory and basically booed of stage. He has the wallace name It was not until Tuzo Wilson's discovery of the transform faults that the mechanism was know and the theory became actuality. Wilson is credited for proving continental drift.

Regardless Wallace contributed a lot I would say.
 
Michael Dalton said:
You have to read further into what Wallace proposed about Biogeography, he was one of the first to give clear proof of the fact that continents moved suggested a series of moving plates highlighted by the distribution of old world and new world species, but failed to come up with the mechanism. He gave a speech to the royal geographic society where he highlighted his theory and basically booed of stage. He has the wallace name It was not until Tuzo Wilson's discovery of the transform faults that the mechanism was know and the theory became actuality. Wilson is credited for proving continental drift.

Regardless Wallace contributed a lot I would say.
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That's like saying Boeing should be credited for making the airplane because they made it better than the Wright Brothers.

I think it's better to credit the man who discovered continental drift than the one who just expounded on it many years later. If you don't think Antonio Snider proved the theory enough, then I suggest you read his book published in 1859, "La création et ses mystères dévoilés". The only thing Wilson did was take Anontio Snider's research and remold it so that it wouldn't conflict with Darwin's theory of evolution. The statements in Genesis 1:9-10 about the gathering together of the seas in one place, which implies there was one landmass, influenced Snider's thinking. Genesis 1:9-10: “Then God said, “Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear”; and it was so.” This is the idea of Pangea. It wasn't until Dr. John Baumgardner, working at the Los Alamos National Laboratories, discovered, through processes in the earth's mantle, tectonic plate movement could have occurred very rapidly. Of course, many scientists would never want to look at such data because it would not fit with Darwin's theory, regardless of the fact that it came from a top scientist at Los Alamos. Dr. Baumgardner is being ignored for the same reason Snider was ignored.

It's interesting to note, the theory of plate tectonics was originally inspired by the Bible, and later on it was confirmed to be correct by a creationist. It's also interesting to note that the Bible says that during the flood, "the mountains rose and the valleys sank." This rising of mountains and sinking of valleys is the continental plate moving event, which Snider referred to more as "continental sprint." This is also the reason we find marine fossils on Mt. Everest. The water from the great flood wasn't over Mt. Everest, but Mt. Everest was under the water. "The mountains rose, the valleys sank down..." Psalm 104:8 If the mountains rose and the valleys sank, then all the water would run into the lowest areas. Hmmm... maybe that's why the earth is 72% water? And if the Earth were once without great mountains, as the Bible states it was before the flood, then it wouldn't be that difficult for the Earth to be flooded. As a matter of fact, if you leveled all the mountains the waters of the ocean would cover the Earth's surface to a depth of 1.7 miles.

I think one of the biggest mistakes we can make is to conclude that 'scientific knowledge’, i.e. the conclusions of modern science, is the only source of true knowledge. Obviously, the many inventors mentioned in this post prove otherwise. Anyways, I'm just writing this with hopes it might get people thinking. Ok, I'm switching my rant off... LOL. :rant:
 
Denizhan Nacar said:
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Tesla's "1930 Pierce Arrow" Electric Car,one of a kind ....
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A fictional kind.
 
Denizhan Nacar said:
Cogito ergo sum ...I doubt ,therefore I think,therefore I am...Rene Descartes....
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I believe it is: “Dubito ergo cogito; cogito ergo sum. (I doubt, therefore I think; I think therefore I am)”. Zontar · Rene Descartes

Very often shortened to Cogito ergo sum.
 
Why is the GUY not in the poll?????? :tongue_smilie: JAMES JANNARD
 
For me it's Da Vinci. He's the human embodiment of the perfect intersection between art and science.
 
Don't forget:

James Watt (steam engine)
Joseph Nicephore Niecpe (photography)
Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce (microchip)
Enrico Fermi (nuclear reactor)
W.K.L.Dickson (movie camera)
Nicolas Appert (canned food)
George Eastman (portable photographic film on a flexible base)
Johannes Gutenberg (movable type printing press)

And many more...

The guy who invented fire and the wheel really deserves more credit too...

Edison is hugely important, not just for his inventions, but for the whole concept of the "mass producing" constant invention and innovation through a research and development department.
 
David Mullen ASC said:
Don't forget:

James Watt (steam engine)
Joseph Nicephore Niecpe (photography)
Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce (microchip)
Enrico Fermi (nuclear reactor)
W.K.L.Dickson (movie camera)
Nicolas Appert (canned food)
George Eastman (portable photographic film on a flexible base)
Johannes Gutenberg (movable type printing press)

And many more...

The guy who invented fire and the wheel really deserves more credit too...

Edison is hugely important, not just for his inventions, but for the whole concept of the "mass producing" constant invention and innovation through a research and development department.
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The ancient Greeks thought our eyes emitted rays, like a laser, which enabled us to see. The first person to realise that light enters the eye, rather than leaving it, was the 10th-century Muslim mathematician, astronomer and physicist Ibn al-Haitham. He invented the first pin-hole camera after noticing the way light came through a hole in window shutters. The smaller the hole, the better the picture, he worked out, and set up the first Camera Obscura (from the Arab word qamara for a dark or private room). He is also credited with being the first man to shift physics from a philosophical activity to an experimental one.​

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/how-islamic-inventors-changed-the-world-469452.html

http://www.1001inventions.com/
 
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