Splendid! A bit of advice about your graphic novels. If they are valuable by price, collectability or have sentimental value to you, put them in covers made of Mylar - Resistance to moisture, insect attack, fungus, mold, mildew, acid, oils, grease, and solvents is excellent. Mylar is the Cadillac of storage bags.

I'd be very proud too!! This is so awesome! TFS! Austin TX USA

Awesome!!!. You definitely should be proud, the man made millions of people lives easier

If you don't mind me asking, what did he do with those ideas? Did he have to create a mock-up and sell that to another company, or would companies just reach out after the patent was filed?

thats so amazing!

That's very cool!! TFS! Austin TX USA

Give your GMIL my gratitude for saving millions of lives. An enormous achievement!

There is a ton of information available on street signs too. Freeway>>> > Tsunami evacuation route. etc...

Yes. Very creative people who come up with our great tech. It’s up to everybody else to determine how to use it.

In the near future, suppressed technology and stolen patents will help us even more. There are inventions that take energy right out of the air ( Tesla had it ), no more pollution from transportation vehicles, no more wires, pipes, gas, oil etc. And anti gravity devices and tons more of who knows what wonderments are waiting for us!

You’re right. The bread slicing machine and sliced bread was hugely popular. I would say it belongs on this list. It revolutionized the way we eat overnight.

It is my understanding that sliced bread initially was not appreciated by the public. It's been many years since I read about it, but I do remember it was not originally embraced.Diane, using Joe's tablet

@@JosephGiannelli-eu6os the first bread slicer was invented in 1928. It was the bakeries, not the general public, that had initial concerns with it as sliced bread went stale much faster but it was addressed with some further innovation and by 1933 the first commercially available sliced bread, Wonderbread, hit the shelves and was a near instant hit with consumers.

Unfortunately older refrigerators and freezers operated using ammonia… poisonous if it leaked.

Plus the folding them back was also a nightmare.😨

I still carry paper maps and atlases as backups. They're also handy if you cannot get cellular data in remote areas.

I remember using maps. You had to keep pulling off the road to look at your map. Having a passenger to navigate by following the map for the driver was important for much use of a map while driving! TFS! Austin TX USA

@MichaelScheele That's a good idea. I stopped doing that because I download Google map data, but batteries die. I'll have to look for a vendor because I haven't seen any locally in years.

@@joeb5316, try the remaining bookstores, larger gas stations, or AAA. Then there's always Amazon. Preferred set of maps: My city/area Major city closest to me My state Optional: neighboring states/region Nationwide map or atlas Optional for the belt and suspenders (braces to Brits) crowd: Thomas Guide for my area

I could always get to anywhere with a map, but that last mile with no idea about the streets, one-ways, address numbers, etc. was absolute hell! I could spend more time on the last mile than on half the trip.

Some of us still prefer paper maps ( permanent reference) and some even collect the old ones.

That's a great series!!! TFS! Austin TX USA

As is The Men That Built America. Excellent series

Why in the US? - In the US, trying, failing, and trying again is not looked down upon as in many other countries and cultures. - In the US, inventors and business owners can gain great financial wealth, if successful, from the risks that they take. - In the US, invention benefits from combining good ideas, insights, processes and people from every country and culture on earth. - In the US, the infrastructure of communication, transportation, basic utilities, inventory of parts & materials, and stable government is largely in place and efficient. Although efficient and business-friendly government is always a challenge. As a mechanical design engineer and inventor myself, the fact that I can often order a part or material (from within the US) on one day and have it delivered to my doorstep in a day or two (if necessary) is a game-changing benefit. This requires efficient infrastructure that is up and running 24/7/365.

I could always get to anywhere with a map, but that last mile with no idea about the streets, one-ways, address numbers, etc. was absolute hell! I could spend more time on the last mile than on half the trip.

I never had problems using maps. I actually enjoyed it. It was like solving a puzzle. I would prepare myself in advance and pretty much always I made right without getting lost. I still check maps before going on a road trip to places I've never been too. Also, most people had a book map of the city they lived in just in case you had to go somewhere you were not familiar with. Taxi drivers had to know the city by heart. Love those times. Also made people smarter and more logical and able to be more resourceful.

@@robertofernandez7773 Agreed!

And we knew where we were going and got our directions ahead of time

Yeah. I grew up with a giant road atlas in the backseat in case we needed it!

Or for those of us from the Great lakes - AAA which road maps, street maps, and trip-tickets!

Yessssss. Still have those maps in home library. Still check them out today.

I remember!!!

@@barbaracabrera207 Actually I was fortunate enough to be blessed with a great sense of direction & was very good at reading maps, so I always got stuck being the navigator on every trip since I was 10. Once I got married, my wife who loved driving took us all across the USA and parts of Canada while I was the relief driver on the long stretches' of freeway.

@@gregorybiestek3431 That's a great story!! TFS! Austin TX USA

​@gregorybiestek3431 Yeah it's something that you get good at with practice I have all kinds of state maps and atlases from road tripping in the before GPS...kinda miss those days

My dad had a Mobil gas station that was 1 of 4 stations clustered together. He had a falling out with Mobil and decided to wind it down and open the Texaco next store. A customer pulled in for a map that I couldn't provide, so he squealed out to 'show me' that he was taking his business next store. My twin brother, sensing the same opportunity I did, stepped out of the Texaco to hear me yell, 'he wants a map.' Before the driver could ask for it, my twin met him with the map.

Edison was credited with creating lots of tech but he took credit created by engineers at his laboratories. I don’t know if historians have been able to identify the actual creators. What Edison did is legal since he owned the land and the creators were his employees.

Edison did not invent the light bulb and is credited with a lot that he did not create. Sorry to dim your bulb.

No Edison was a thief . Just about everything that we credit to him he "legally" stole from his employees.

I've been to all 50 states and never have used GPS. I love maps.

Yup, one of the biggest things, and they totally missed it.

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Stop it. There's enough trans on the Internet as it is

it's endless the things America has invented.

@@Bozemanjustin They list the Personal Computer, but they are wrong in one aspect - the personal computer and just about EVERY electronic device depends on the TRANSISTOR! No transistor, no personal computer, no cell phone, and no internet which requires banks of servers. The transistor was invented in Bell Labs in 1947 and EVERYTHING came after that.

Several episodes of " The Food that Built America" Even pet food, and BBQ. I liked the one of the woman who started Pepper Ridge Farms. And the woman who came up with the first Cabbage Patch Kid doll. Toys that Built America.

the Portuguese sailed the unknown world without gps or maps

Well, what the Wright Bro's invented was the modern wind tunnel which did NOT exist before them. Others came up with concept but never made it work. They did. All wind tunnels since theirs uses their methods for obtaining lab results. Because of this Wright Brothers were able to tabulated angle of attack and coefficient of lift correlation. They were able to Invent the propeller, and yes, they eventually invented 3d warping/folding wing sections and therefore controlled flight. Without their wind tunnel, no one invents the propeller. Without the propeller, no one invents powered flight.

I remember we never knew what was happening internationally unless it was something really important that made the newspaper.

Sometimes it's just time for an invention. Newton and Leibniz invented calculus at the same time. Tesla and Marconi were both working on radio at the same time, but Marconi beat Tesla to it.

Also "The Cars that built the World". "The Cars that Built America" etc. And "The Food that Built America" is my favorite.

Isn't there one about Toys as well?

@@LA_HA Yes.

Not a flex, but a long time ago, I used to love arguing with and debating Canadians over Everything. I don't remember just now how that all started, but there was some saltiness involved. At some point, inventions became the topic and they mentioned Bell and the person who invented the train (again, don't remember who or what he did exactly). I remember telling the Canadians that they came to America for a reason and that reason was they were Free to dream it, design it, and make money from it. This wasn't happening elsewhere like it was happening in America

Also, my first high tech job in around 88 was as a HW technician, and learned UNIX, or better then FreeBSD and Linux. So, this is where you could establish Bulletin Boards, email and anything you can imagine if you can program

MapQuest is still available. I used it several yrs back when I had to drive halfway across the country as a back up to my GPS. Printed out directions just in case.

In my first computer class in 1970, we had to punch the code on "Hollerith Cards" (they were around the size of a dollar bill) and so a whole computer program would be a deck of this cards. Heaven help you if you dropped the deck!

Ohio is 5 minutes west of me and Pennsylvania is 5 minutes east of me.

@@suterfamily5578which means you are in the northern panhandle of WN, Weirton - Wheeling area? Or nearby!

@@appaloosa42 Yes to one of those 😜

I'm from Ohio and I've never heard anyone argue that we are "First in Flight" we claim "Birthplace of Aviation" because this is where the Wright brothers lived, designed and built the first airplane. The Wright Bros did all their engineering, preflight testing, and development of flyable aircraft in Dayton, Ohio. They did test gliders and eventually the first powered flight at Kitty Hawk Hill on the beach in North Carolina because the terrain and winds favored that location. That flight covered only a few hundred yards at under 100’ altitude. Afterward that development continued in Dayton where the first powered take-off, flight, and successful landing took place at Huffman Prairie. They continued development of practical aircraft for commercial and military use in Dayton. Today the National Park Service operates a scattered sight museum at 5 locations where the the Wright Bros. worked. Eventually their work identified Dayton Ohio as the birthplace of aviation resulting in the location of Wright-Patterson Airforce Base. Wright-Patterson, through WWII and continuing today, operates the largest development of flight systems for both fixed wing and missiles in the United States Air Force. More 30,000 employees, mostly engineering contractors are employed here. The National Museum of the Air Force in located on the base. The AF Museum has the largest collection of military aircraft in the world. It is the largest single tourist attraction in Ohio. I believe all this is a tribute the work of the Wright Bros., citizens of Dayton and suburban Oakwood, Ohio.

@@AmberVivicide The “motto” on our license plates was First in Flight. It was reported by media outlets that OH was raising such a stink about it that the motto would no longer be used.

@@carolburnett190 it wasn't Ohio raising a stink about the motto First in Flight, it was Connecticut who wanted it removed and given to their state and it went for a vote in Congress. Ohio used the motto Heart of it All on our license plates until 1998. To commemorate the 200th birthday of Ohio the slogan was changed and North Carolina were the ones who huffed and puffed about it, not the other way around.

Hear hear! After my GPS told me to “turn right” into a 3’ deep snowed-in pasture lane, cyclone fence and 6’hedge, and disappeared completely I bought every local map I could find wherever I traveled!

I think that without the Transistor in 1947 the idea of an Integrated Circuit would not have been possible.

I really hope Andre sees this comment, I was going to write the same thing. I think he'd love all of those series. They're fascinating.

I remember when my daddy put our first Air Conditioner into the wall in our living room. We'd close all doors to seal off the rest of the house. And we'd stay in the living room. I think TV was an important invention that wasn't mentioned!!

Agreed on a/c. Air conditioning wins hands down. The US didn't invent the automobile though, Germans did. The US just mass produced them on a scale that made it affordable for the average person to own one.

Agreed. Interesting to see the markers where the various flights landed and marvel how much they improved throughout the day.

I still have a big specially printed book of maps of Germany. 2.5 “ thick!

I think a lot of common sense disappeared with maps, calculators, spell check, etc.

AAA in the Great Lakes region also made road maps, street maps, and trip-tickets which were used more around the Midwest area.

Rita Hayworth?

@LA_HA Hedy Lamarr was behind early wi-fi, gps, bluetooth with her frequency hopping tech. If thats what youre asking

@@nathanmclaughlin304 Yes, that's what I was thinking. I Knew I was getting it mixed up but couldn't think of it... and of course, I refused to go online and look it up. Hahaha. Thank you. I appreciate the correct answer. I really appreciate it

When my late husband was studying for his PhD in Planetary Science at Cal Tech in the late 1970's, his LOL landlady was totally unimpressed by NASA. "Young man!" she would say, "I remember when the Wright Brothers flew at Kitty Hawk!".

It doesn't hurt that American salaries of skilled employees are on average 40-70% higher than they would be for the same position in European countries. So.. if you have a skillset that applies to most of the STEM field you're highly incentivized to move to the US.