Who Invented

Since I started writing this blog, I noticed that one invention often leads to another. For example, the invention of pyro-glycerine led to dynamite. Or the invention of the radio led to the television. I worked on a book about scripted TV once and the beginning of the story was all about radio shows. So, before talking about the invention of the television, I decided to cover:

Who Created the Radio?

Multiple people claimed to have invented the radio like Italian engineer Guglielmo Marconi, Serbian-American scientist Nikola Tesla, and Russian physicist Alexander Stepanovich Popov. None of them discovered electromagnetic waves (like radio waves) or even started to explore their physical properties, but they worked on using them to communicate.

The other day, I was reading about how a computer chip shortage put to a stop the assembly lines at the Renault vehicle manufacturing plant in my city. And of course, I thought…

Who created the Assembly Line?

If we want the simple answer: Henry Ford. With the help of his employee William “Pa” Klann, he set up the first assembly line in 1913 to manufacture his Model T cars.

Sometimes, you really need an elevator, those stairs are too narrow to lift that sofa (and to tell me to pivot!). I always thought that the elevator was a recent invention, but I came to realize I know nothing about it. So, let’s explore the subject!

Who Created the Elevator?

First, what are we talking about? The elevator in your apartment building or the platform Romans used to lift stones to build their concrete colosseum.

I was watching the adventures of Brent from Cerro Gordo on Youtube and he found century-old dynamite in an abandoned mine. He talked about the instability of his discovery, which led me to search for information about…

Who created dynamite?

This answer is a Swedish chemist, engineer, inventor, businessman, and philanthropist Alfred Nobel during the 1860s. Yes, the same man behind the famous Nobel Prizes.

The two are connected because, when his brother Ludvig died, people thought it was him and a French newspaper published an obituary in which he was described as a merchant of death. Alfred decided to leave behind a better legacy.

As I was watching some YouTube videos about the architect Frank Lloyd Wright, his experiments with concrete were explored, and I asked myself the question: Who Invented Concrete? Obviously. After writing a few articles for this blog, I noticed that the answer is not just one person. It’s not that easy. So, I invite you to join me in the past to discover the history of concrete.

What is concrete?

First, for those of us who are not in the know, what exactly is concrete? The Cambridge Dictionary described it as a very hard-building material made by mixing together cement, sand, small stones, and water. In short, it’s a really resistant composite material we are using to build houses and other structures.

Of all the technology I’m using constantly, the Internet has become the more useful to me. I’m using it to make a living (but not with cryptocurrency yet). When I discovered its existence in the ’90s, I was quite young and I dreamed of all the possibilities the computer magazines were presenting.

After I got my first 14k modem, I realized that it was quite slow, but it was another world, so who cared? I soon got a 28k modem after all! At that time, I was more interested in using it than in its origin. I never asked:

During its first years, American Television was live from New York—or at least from a studio located on the East Coast. The first famous golden age was about live drama anthologies, but they disappeared quickly when Hollywood took over and everything was put on film.

There were exceptions, of course, I Love Lucy and The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show, for example, comedies with laughs to make you laugh. The shows were filmed before a Live Studio audience or filmed and projected to a laughing audience that was then recorded.

“Filmed Before a Live Studio Audience”