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Top 10 Misattributed Inventions

Monday, August 18, 2014 12:42

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There are many inventions we don’t know who created, but there are also some inventions there were misattributed. Most of the time it happened because somebody improved considerably a device that was unknown before and it became popular after the improvement. Let’s see exactly which wonderful inventions were not attributed correctly during time.

10. The Computer

Alleged Inventor: Microsoft (with Windows)
Actual Inventor: Xerox PARC

We all think that Microsoft invented the concept of graphical user interface and the desktop idiom, but it is not true. Xerox invented it and showed it to Apple, who liked it. In 1983, they released the first commercial for Macintosh, while Microsoft released Windows online in 1985. And it was not an operating system, it was an interface that ran on MS DOS. The first use of the word “computer” was recorded in 1613 in a book called “The yong mans gleanings” by English writer Richard Braithwait I haue read the truest computer of Times, and the best Arithmetician that euer breathed, and he reduceth thy dayes into a short number.

9. The Automobile

Alleged Inventor: Henry Ford
Actual Inventor: Karl Benz

Many German engineers were working on developing an automobile at the same time, but Karl Benz is the one who invented the modern automobile, powered by a gasoline engine. It happened in 1885, but he started to sell it in 1888. However, Henry Ford created a self-propelled automobile only in 1986. Benz had originally focused his studies on locksmithing, but eventually followed his father’s steps toward locomotive engineering. If you don’t believe me,watch a dramatized television movie about the life of Karl and Bertha Benz that was released in 2011.

8. The X-Ray Photography

Alleged Inventor: Thomas Edison
Actual Inventor: Wilhelm Röntgen

Edison became famous with his Fluoroscope, but Wilhelm Röntgen invented the X-ray photography in 1895, before Edison’s invention, when he saw a picture of his wife’s hand on a photographic plate formed due to X-rays. His wife photograph became the first photograph ever of a human body part using X-rays. Actually the rays are called Röntgen rays.

7. The Telescope

Alleged Inventor: Galileo
Actual Inventor: Hans Lippershey

The first telescope was invented and used by Hand Lippershey, in 1608. It was made out of a convex objective lens and a concave eyepiece. Galileo just used the same design in the following year, while Johannes Kepler described the invention in 1611.

6. The Moving Pictures

Alleged Inventor: Thomas Edison (in fact his own moving pictures concept was created by one of his staff, William Dickson)
Actual Inventor: Louis Le Prince

The French inventor Louis Le Prince recorded at 12 frames per second clip on October 14, 1888, in England. The clip was filmed at the home of Joseph and Sarah Whitley in West Yorkshire. Two years later, he disappeared mysteriously from a train, while his son was found dead in New York in 1892, after testifying at a patent trial against Edison. Edison’s first moving picture was launched in 1889 or 1890.