10 Swedish Inventions That CHANGED the WORLD
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- čas přidán 31. 05. 2024
- Sweden has a surprising number of inventors and inventions for its small size. Everyone knows about IKEA and Spotify, but there have been many other Swedish inventions throughout time. Inventions that changed the world.
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In this video I'm listing 10 of the most interesting Swedish inventions. Not all of them had a massive impact on the world, but all of them are noteworthy in one way or another.
The inventions listed are:
- The three-point seatbelt, by Nils Bohlin and Volvo
- The absorption refrigerator, by Carl Munters and Baltzar von Platen
- The zipper, by Gideon Sundbäck
- The Celsius temperature scale, by Anders Celsius
- The safety match, by Gustaf Erik Pasch
- The adjustable spanner, by Johan Petter Johansson
- Automatic Identification System, by Håkan Lans
- The candy cane...sort of. Or at least the polkagris, by Amalia Eriksson
- The first pacemaker implant, by Rune Elmqvist and surgeon Åke Senning
- And finally, dynamite, by Alfred Nobel
Everyone seems to forget the spherical ball bearing. It have hade a huge impact after all.
You're absolutely right - they completely slipped my mind when thinking of inventions!
Thank you for this interesting video, please keep them coming.
I'll do my best - happy that you enjoyed it 😊
Great video. Clear Voice. Thanks from Denmark.
Thank you, appreciate it 😊 Cheers!
Thank you for uploading👍
Greetings from Ireland 🎉
Cheers from the US right now actually! But thanks for checking it out 😀
@@ThreeStarVagabond In the US for filming?
Well, in the US on a road trip vacation but there'll be quite a few videos from here I think 😀
C.E.Johansson, inventor of the gauge block had a huge impact on mass production. Making precise measurements possible.
Gustaf Dahlen, inventor of a safe way to store acetylene. Made gas welding practical. He also made inventions for light houses used around the world.
Sounds like I should make a list of 10 more maybe...
@@ThreeStarVagabond Gauge blocks are by far the most influential swedish invention of all time!
@@Balkongodlaren Thanks! Duly noted :)
Thank you Three Star Vagabond for another extremely interesting video! A lot of these inventions I already had heard about, but it was nice to get the backstory of each. I enjoy learning about Swedish history and culture from your channel.
And I'm really happy that you enjoyed it, and that you found it interesting 😀 Cheers and hope you have an awesome day!
Tack för ett bra program.
Tack för att du spanade in det 😀
It's always so fascinating to learn about different inventions. I will share some from my home country of Argentina: the ballpoint pen invented by Lászió Biró (althought he was a Hungarian jew who fled to Argentina during WW2 he was a naturalized Argentine citizen when he invented it), the artificial heart was invented by doctor Domingo Santo Liotta in the 1960's, and fingerprinting by a police office named Juan Vucetich in the 1890's 😊
Oh wow! Those are really cool inventions 😀 Seems like every country has a lot of famous inventions after all!
@@ThreeStarVagabond I saw you're around the West Coast. I've lived in Vegas for the past 10 years, if you come around here I would be happy to give you some recommendations if you like. I have also heard of a place in California called Kingsburg that has a few Swedish shops, although they're better known for their festivals. Not sure if they'll have done something for Valborg. I would love to go myself and explore someday 🤞🏻 Really hope you enjoy your stay in the US and I very much look forward to watching your next video about it 🙂
@@lulu.chains.88 Thank you for the tip! I'm actually planning on stopping by at Kingsburg tomorrow - excited to see what I can find there :D Cheers, and thank you very much!
The ballpoint pen used to write parts of Anne Frank's diary?...
What year was the ballpoint pen invented again?
@@staffan144It was 1938
Tack Miro for another super interesting video! I love to geek out on fact's. Sverige must be full of geniuses 😊
Haha, we're mostly full of weirdos I think 😀 Cheers!
Sverige sounds my kind of place! Weirdos, Nerd's and Geeks RULE😁🤓
Yay! Even if most of us are just two out of those three 😀
Very interesting and informative.
Thank you so much 😊
Proud to be Swedish 👍🏻
Haha go us! 😊
Thanks for this!
Thanks for checking it out 😀
Interesting Mr Vampire.
I was going to say that vampires rock, but I guess it would be funnier to say that they suck
Wow! 🇸🇪 Thank you.
Thanks for checking it out 😀
The Johansson standard blocks are swedish. That led to industrial standards making mass production possible
And I had no idea at all about that! Thanks for sharing :D
Thank you, that's amazing, I knew some things, but with other ones I was surprised 🙂
Perfect, then I did my job correctly 😀 Thanks and cheers!
@@ThreeStarVagabond Thank you too! Cheers!
"The adjustable spanner" -is know in Denmark as a "Svensk-Nøgle" / ...Swedish-key, directly translated... ;-) One of the most versatile tool everyone should have..
I had no idea about the Danish name before this video! Haha, I love it. But yeah it is a pretty nifty thing isn't it...
I've just had the time to watch the video, props to you again.
To me, as a Hungarian, it was funny to discover, that the adjustable spanner/wrench is a Swedish invention, since in Hungarian we call it "French wrench" (francia kulcs) 😁
Haha I love that! It's like when Americans call "Viennese bread" Danish pastries instead. So strange
Spotify,Skype, the Propeller,Agafyr,Steam engine,Stripes,Air Navigation, SKF,ASEA,SCANIA,Volvo,SAAB,Kockums Submarin,Bofors,Angled hook,Tetra Pack.
It's much more but I don't remember more now.😊😮
Wow Swedes are changing the world one invention at a time. Volvo always had safety in mind, I didn’t realize they invented the shoulder harness on the seat belt but they strived to have the safest cars, I must say my favorite car is the old 240. The metric system makes so much sense, it’s all based on 10’s. Don’t ask me how you get 32f = freezing and 212F = boiling vs 0 Celsius and 100 C = boiling, it’s the same with and it’s the same with liquids. I think the problem is that they try to convert imperial measurements into metric and get all confused 😢. Thank you for another great video and stay safe till next time.
We're aiming for the stars! 😀 But haha yeah I totally agree with all of that! Cheers from a hot tub with a cold beer 🍺
Believe it or not, but there was actually a method to the madness that is the Fahrenheit scale, and it starts with another guy named Ole Rømer.
Rømer was a Danish astronomer, who actually invented the modern thermometer. He also invented the Rømer temperature scale, which he released in 1702. At that time, the coldest temperature which was easy to reproduce, was that of a brine solution made of water, ice, and ammonium chloride.
This saline solution is known as a eutectic solution, which means that its melting point is lower than that of any of its parts, and is self stabilizing. This is theorized to having been the intended point of 0 °Rø on Rømer’s scale, since it had been used on temperature scales previously.
The second point on his scale was the boiling point of water, which he put at 60 °Rø. I don’t know why he didn’t put it at 100, but it is possible he based it off of a clock, rather than base 10. He noticed that pure water seemed to freeze at about an eight of his scale, right around 7.5 °Rø, so he redefined his scale so that the lower fixed point was exactly 7.5 °Rø.
Back to Fahrenheit.
Fahrenheit described in a letter to his friend, that his own scale was based on Rømer’s scale. Fahrenheit wanted to refine the scale to get rid of the fractions, so he multiplied it by 4.
0 °F was to remain at the temperature of the brine solution. The freezing point of water became around 30 °F, and the average human body temperature became around 90 °F.
Fahrenheit wanted to make it easier for himself to divide his temperature scale into intervals, and the easiest way to do that was if he could just put a mark smack in the middle of two existing marks a few times. He changed 30 to 32, and 90 to 96, so he could bisect the scale six times to get 64 intervals.
After Celsius's scale based solely on the freezing-, and boiling point of water, became popular, the Royal Society adjusted Fahrenheit’s scale slightly to be based exactly on the freezing point of water at 32 °F, and the boiling point of water at exactly 212 °F, so that they are 180 °F apart. The new average human body temperature then landed on
98.6 °F.
Sorry for the essay.
@@soulextracter Very well explained 👍.
Great video. My first pacemaker worked for 12 years as it didn’t have to intercept that often. The models of today are absolutely fantastic, registering all anomalies of the heart.
By the way, the skiftnyckel (adjustable spanner) is in some places referred to as a “Bahco”, which is the name of the company making them.
Happy to hear that it's working better than those early versions! Definitely sounds better now 😊 And really? I had no idea! Thanks for that piece of info
And in other places they're called "svensknyckel".
The inventor of doorknockers won the no-bel(l)-prize...
God damn it! I snorted Trocadero all over my keyboard when I read this
@@ThreeStarVagabond 😁😁😄😆😁Kul att jag kan roa dig!
A inventor to keep your eyes on is DR. Stig Lundbäck. He is a cardiologist that had an insight on how the hart works and how it reminded him of the see. Later he started CorPower and they have done testing outside of Portugal right now.
Interesting! Thanks for the tip about him :D
The spherical ball baering by Sven Wingqvist 1907.
Ooh, that's a good one. Totally forgot about that!
Introverts and Reindeer! 😂 you should put this on a bumper sticker 🤣🤣 can’t wait to meet some introverts and see a reindeer or two - 17 days to go til I zip up my jacket (depending on the degrees celsius) (thank you Sweden) and head your way. Hope your USA trip is going well 👍Thanks for another great vlog 😊
Well I hear that the weather is actually pretty good there right now 😦 fingers crossed for the trip! And thank you so much! So I need to look into bumper sticker merch as well, I see 😂
@@ThreeStarVagabond definitely! “Sweden - land of Introverts and Reindeer! Come on over!”
Thank you! There are many more, in case you want to make a sequel. 😉
I just might have to :D
There's a mention of Baltazar Von Platen at 2:14, it reminded me of something (quick google) ah, yes... He tried to patent a Perpetual motion machine back in '73. Probably read about him in my youth and such a distinct surname sticks in your brain.
Unfortunately there are several noteworthy people with exactly the same name! The first Baltzar von Platen was the guy who built Göta Canal in Sweden (a massive engineering project). So googling might lead to strange results :)
And the list goes on and on.
For instance the standardized gauge blocks that inspired Ford to start with mass production was due to a Swedish inventor. Who also is the man who standardized the inch.
SKF might not have invented roller bearings but they sure played a big part in making precision bearings.
The production technique for synthetic diamond is also a Swedish invention.
So is high voltage DC transmission.
The three phase system that is the base for AC transmission is also due to a Swedish inventor.
One can go on and on. Its quite insane actually.. And somewhat strange that Sweden have influenced so much.
For instance computer equipment have a TCO compliance sticker. This is because the Swedish union-organization TCO demanded lower radiation etc for better health of the user. It started with concern with the crt monitors of the time but now extends to all kinds of pc equipment.
Not to talk about our military equipment. Swedish SAAB have the worlds only radar system that can detect all current forms of stealth technology.
Sweden made the Carl Gustav.
The submarine Gotland is the only sub that have penetrated US hangar ships defences.
And in the Ukraine they are now using the mobile Archer system and the Strf90 to great success.
There really is an insane amount of inventions that have come (and are coming) from Sweden... Then again, maybe it's the same thing is I were to look up other countries - but I do think that we have a higher proportion of inventors than many other places.
Not to forget, the Walker (Rullator in swedish)...
Nice one! I guess that one is more important than e.g polkagris. But it just didn't sound as fun to talk about!
@@ThreeStarVagabond And - she (the inventor) did not patent it. Because she wanted as many as possible, to be able to afford it! _Think if - "Apple" iWalkers (4 times the price...)_ 😉
Oh nice! I love hearing things like that - there's hope for humanity after all. Thanks for the info!
The sun valve witch earned its inventor Gustav Dahle´n the Nobel prize in physics 1912 is more important than the candy cane (polkagris).
Oh absolutely. This is more a mix of things that I found interesting, as well as things that had a big impact. Plus - I think it was a cute story about the candy cane. Take it with a grain of salt!
Are you sure? The world is a little bit brighter with candy canes around ❤
Interesting video, Miro! Could you do a video on the regional folk costumes in the different counties of Sweden! 🎽
Such a cool idea! Haha I really know nothing about that though - I'd have to read up a whole lot 😀
You forgot that ultrasound is also a swedish/Austrian invention
Good one! And the propeller as well, apparently... I missed a lot of good ones!
Säkerhetsnålen? katapultstolen? rullatorn?
Vänta, säkerhetsnål? Det missade jag helt. Men ja, det finns verkligen hur många som helst att välja bland...
Tack för videon, mycket bra!
Men du missade lite på temperaturskalorna. Celsius tog skalan och gjorde den till sin egen varav den blev populär. Kelvinskalan är dessutom samma som Celsius men baserad på absoluta nollan. Att jämföra med Farenheit som är olinjär i förhållande till övriga skalor.
Jag tänker att det var nära nog för en kort sammanfattning! Min förhoppning är att folk kan läsa på mer om ämnena som intresserar dem 😊
John Ericssons invention of the propeller could have been on the list.
Sounds like I should make a revised list...
@@ThreeStarVagabond If you do, don't forget the universal joint transmission by Cristopher Polhem. 👍🏻
@@arnarne I'm learning more and more myself every day now. I've of course heard of Polhem but now I know what to read up on in detail. Thanks!
6:02 Better known as the Swedish Key ;)
The Swedish Key? Never heard that term - but then again, I know nothing about tools 😅
@@ThreeStarVagabondHehe Maybe its only in Denmark, but over here its mostly called a Svensknøgle :)
That is so cool 😀 Thank you - I love weird pieces of knowledge like that
Nice. In Norway we call it "Monkey Wrench". No insult meant . 😉😅 Alle oss i Norge vet at den er svensk.
You forget the graphic card for all electronics !!! Hakan Lanz
Yeah I had a hard time picking a good one from his inventions! But I did include him for AIS at least :)
@@ThreeStarVagabond Yes but this is the big one that all electronic company's stole from him !!
eeeeeh.... passbitar? C.E Johansson.
Jag vet inte ens vad en passbit är för något! Haha, tummen mitt i handen...
@@ThreeStarVagabond"Passbit" is a highly accurate block of exact size, they come in several sizes that you can combine into a new exact size.
When crafting stuff at high percision these can be used as a reference size.
You forgot to mention the Billy series by IKEA.
The greatest invention ever! Helping poor students all over the world
@@ThreeStarVagabondI love the Bamse comics, the movies and... (Ring ring ring) My food-and-sleep clock is ringing, time to go to sleep. (ZZZZZZZZZ)
Hmmmm...I wonder what the largest of the strange countries using Fahrenheit might be? 😀
I don't know if it was nationwide, or if it was just my junior high school science teacher being progressive, but that was my only exposure to the metric system and other units of measure used by...well...most of the world.
Even my dad -- a mechanic -- told me I'd be wise learning how the rest of the world measures things. But...I'm looking at my thermostat and it's in Fahrenheit...but at least the tape measure within reach contains weird and normal units of measure...
No idea! There's some country I've heard of but I can't put my finger on it...
Haha, well, as long as the whole country sticks to imperial measurements then you don't really need to know metric. I found it strangely simple to convert yards and miles and stuff in my head, but gallons and farenheit and feet are just weird. "You're at 5000 feet now" oh nice, that just tells me that I'm somewhere above sea level.
@@ThreeStarVagabond But if you know 5,280 feet is a mile, it puts it all into perspective! 🤣
(Schools used to make us actually remember that on tests. I had to look it up to make this joke...)
@@ChristopherGronlund Goddamn Americans and their complicated stuff all the time :D
" Most of the world ?" you mean the test of the world...
@@Coole-ee1vg Liberia and Myanmar also use the Imperial System. But yeah, it's mostly our goofy asses in the U.S. that keep that alive...
Candy canes and zippers, but not bringing up many of the most important inventions, like everything regarding telecom
Many of the important and/or impactful inventions simply don't have as good of a story (IMO). But given all the comments, I'm thinking if I should make a revised list...
Kelvin would make more sense in my opinion
Scientists agree with you!
Kelvin is used in science, also One degree Kelvin = one degree Celsius
Yes indeed, which is why I added the note :)
Bluetooth, after Harald blåtand (viking)
I tried to stay away from too modern inventions but yeah, this one definitely should be right up there! :)
10:55 That guy scratched his butt crack just FYI
Best PSA ever 😊
Now that's a truly international invention
Flatscreen and the computer mouse is not top 10?
The computer mouse was a bit contended so I didn't feel like pushing it too much. Maybe there's enough for 10 more!
Alfred Nobel actually invented the dynamite in Gemany, not Sweden. I know it because I am from Sweden.🇸🇪
ok, and??
@@Coole-ee1vgSo is it a swedish invention or a german invention?
@@linusholm3806 Probably a Norwegian because he cracked the idea when he was at a vacation in Trondheim, you fool.
@@Coole-ee1vgI'M NOT A FOOL!🙁 Are you bullying me?🤔
@@linusholm3806 Yes you are and I am not....
What about Swedish Fish ?
Fun fact: they're called Malaco fish here, and they're just a normal type of lösgodis. And not all that liked either :D
@@ThreeStarVagabond Pastellfiskar made by the company Malaco.
Why can't we call them Nordic or Scandinavic inventions? Just as we do with all Viking related stuff that originated in Norway but historians from denmark and sweden call then "scandiavians"?
I think we should go back to the Kalmar Union in general. With Norway's money, Sweden's inventions, and Denmark's beer, we'd be unstoppable.
Nils didn't invent the three point seat belt. He invented the modern three point seat belt. An american had the patent for three point seat belt.
Oops.. That's an important distinction. It doesn't really sound as impressive, but "rätt ska vara rätt".
@@ThreeStarVagabond Nope. But it's still impressive that they made the patent free and it's pretty much the same design to this date.
The 'Combination shoulder and lap safety belt' (US2710649A "patents.google") by Griswold and DeHaven was a lap belt with a shoulder belt attached. It didn't look like Bohlin's, and was more difficult to put on than the one Bohlin came up with.
The same idea, but a huge difference practically.
dynamite copy
Im Swede and think my country is sooo boring !
I agree in some ways, but I also like a lot about it! I like the chill activities
It is in your own head. It is only you that are boring
How about the propeller,
by John Ericsson?..
You're not alone in noting that the propeller is missing! Good job on teaching me something new :)