13 Incredible Inventions That Changed the World
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- The stories behind these famous inventions are (almost) as incredible as the inventions themselves. From the X-ray to the Super Soaker, we're covering 13 amazing inventions and the stories of their creation.
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0:00 Three-point seat belt
1:32 Pizza box & pizza saver
3:08 Microwave
4:33 X-ray photography
5:45 Blood banks
6:53 Super Soaker
8:09 Space telescopes
8:55 The Pill
10:13 Flush toilets
11:36 Radio
12:47 Lightbulb
13:44 The Walkman
14:40 Suspension bridges
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I'm not sure if it was used elsewhere but in Nova Scotia, Canada, before the pizza saver was invented, they used to put a little bit of dough in the center of the pizza to do the exact same thing. We called it a pizza bun and we always fought over who would get it. Our local pizza joint has reverted to the pizza bun in the last few years because they wanted to be more environmentally friendly. It's one fewer disposable plastic items in the world. If you care about that kind of thing, maybe everyone can pressure their own pizza restaurants to do the same thing and have them treat the world to a pizza bun while they're at it.
I dont even think the little plastic pizza savers are common anymore. Even dominoes doesn't use them, they just switched to a stronger cardboard.
that is awesome! I bet it was delicious too lol
As a Scottish person I would like to correct the word for toilet is cludgie and not sludgie. You can now sleep tonight
You should do a segment on Heddy Lamarr. She invented what became a secure radio system for the navy (years after they rejected her idea), which ultimately led to Bluetooth technology.
That’s Hedley!
@@andrewbeck7744 Her full first name was Hedwig, but she went by Heddy. You might be thinking of a character from Blazing Saddles.....lol
@@kandipiatkowski8589 that’s the joke 😂
@@andrewbeck7744 ok. Just checking....lol
@@andrewbeck7744 And an excellent one you beat me to.
7:50 I've met Lonnie Johnson as a fellow judge at a robotics competition a few years ago. Really nice man.
There's a scene in Kate and Leopold (I can't find here) where Leopold comes upon the Brooklyn Bridge and exclaims, "It's a miracle! Reobling's erection is still standing." A sanitation worker looks up and says, "What?" Leopold replies, "It's a miracle, man!" The sanitation worker replies, "It's a bridge" and walks off.
That sanitation worker was my father's cousin. (My first cousin once removed.)
As a person who would love to donate blood and is a universal donor but cannot and who has been in the unfortunate situation of having a love one (my mom) who wouldn’t be here and is somehow still alive because of donor blood and even had my own personal need that saved my life due to septic shock I thank ever person who donates and ask that everyone who can look up and see if your local bank needs blood and if you are a needed blood type and eligible donate because it can be life or death. It might not seem significant but it truly is to so many people. My mother was so badly injured in a head on collision that she shouldn’t have survived and we were told she wouldn’t even after being transferred to a hospital that changed mid flight to a hospital 5 minutes closer because of her blood loss and while her hours long surgery upon arrival where they stopped counting after 50-100 units of blood(not officially on paperwork but in real time) with out she wouldn’t be here. Thank you to everyone who does it’s not unnoticed ❤
The sad irony about Dr. Charles Drew is that he had been severely injured in a car accident but, being a Black man, he would not be admitted to the emergency room of the nearest hospital which, at the time, was "Whites Only". So, he bled to death in the ambulance that was taking him to the next hospital that would admit Black patients, which was several miles away.
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Looks like you will have to do Part 2 to cover the can opener.
In my opinion the biggest invention of the 20th century was the transistor
Erin's bangs are always 🔥
Erin’s easily become my favorite factoid CZcamsr. Really love watching these researched, entertaining videos! I hope every subscriber of WeirdHistory and similar channels gets this recommended to them :)
I had a friend who died as the result of a low-speed crash wearing a two-point seatbelt.
The workers and Washington Roebling himself got the bends while working on the Brooklyn Bridge.
You youngsters don't know the disappointment of peeling the cheese and pepperoni off the inside of the box, to salvage your pizza
The pizza saver is called a Noid. They had a huge ad campaign for many years in the 80s.
I love that you glamorize Sanger and avoid her thoughts on eugenics, her associating with the kkķ, and the forced sterilization of those of "the moron class" the "feeble minded" and "imbeciles". Her vision for planned parenthood was not female body autonomy but population, racial, and mental status control.
Came here to say the exact same thing
I'm curious to know which scientists back then didn't believe in *some* kind of eugenics or racial ideology?
"we all are bad. Every one of us therefore will find in his own breast the vice which he blames in another. Why do you remark how pale this man, or how lean that man is? there is a general pestilence. Let us therefore be more gentle one to another: we are bad men, living among bad men: there is only one thing which can afford us peace, and that is to agree to forgive one another. "This man has already injured me," say you, "and I have not yet injured him." No, but you have probably injured someone else, and you will injure him some day. Do not form your judgment by one hour, or one day: consider the whole tendency of your mind: even though you have done no evil, yet you are capable of doing it."
@@graphosxp No, not when my community, my mother and my aunts, are still reeling from the impact of these programs. If all scientists believed in some sort of racial eugenics then they are all accountable for the atrocities they subscribed to.
You're right JH they sure avoided that.
According to tall tales from my friend who has served on a US Navy Ticonderoga-class AEGIS cruiser, the AN/SPY-1B radar will "cook" birds that fly too close (probably only to medium-rare, though) -- it's a 6 megawatt tightly-focused beam, your countertop microwave is maybe 1kW and contained in the box..The vast majority of the time the ship radar is either set to scan or to not follow slow-moving things like birds, but if you took off the filters to look for/disrupt slow-flying quadcopters ... plausible? You definitely wouldn't want to be up on the mast with the radar on. And you can use fighter-jet radars to pop popcorn (as the engineer who invented the microwave oven did in his first intentional cooking experiment). OFC, you don't want to be anywhere within 90 degrees of the nose of the aircraft when doing so.
according to tall tales from a gentleman I knew, the watchstanders on the boat he worked on when he was young, found there was a certain point on the bridge wings, where they stayed warmer than on the rest of the exterior superstructure. also, according to him, there was a higher than average incidence of cancer as they aged - his surmise was that they were unknowingly microwaving themselves in stray emissions from the radar system.
Fun fact "garderobe" might be a medieval style toilet, but it is also Danish for "wardrobe" (apparently it can also have that meaning in English, though I think it's use has diminished during the last century)
Is that "wardrobe", meaning a place where you keep your clothes or meaning the collection of clothes you own?
It's a french term. It does indeed mean a wardrobe or a closet, it would literally be translated as "keep dress".
And to think Domino's doesn't even use those little mouse tables anymore
lol Having to reach pretty hard when were saying that an unnecessary piece of plastic, that lasted maybe 20 years as a consumerism fad and was objectively a worse alternative to the older method of just putting a ball of dough in the middle, or the current system of just using stronger cardboard somehow 'changed the world.' But hey I guess to be fair those things aren't exactly biodegradable so I guess technically they changed the world's landfills and oceans.
You should have mentioned the man who invented the ballcock ( yes really! ) valve used in flush toilets. And also the U-Bend stink trap for said toilets. He was a London plumber who's name was a splendid example of nominative determinism. Thomas Crapper.
Want to reheat pizza in the microwave AND get crisper crust? Put a glass of water in the microwave along with the pizza. The glass of water helps take care of the excess moisture in the pizza and therefore, you get a crisper pizza without having to wait for the oven to preheat and so on.
1:36 What kind of a pizza-slicing atrocity is this? The horror...
The last one was soo good.
Anyone else use those little pizza box tables for their Barbies?
No but my mom does call them "Barbie tables" lol
@@MechWomanWarrior15 they also got the name "barbie table" among my peer group of the late 80s.
My great aunt had an Amana Radar Range - not an original, but still bigger than her tv with the ability to roast stuff as well and a metal temperature probe. Still scares me lol. I remember in the 70s there was a huge marketing push for the microwave to replace the oven as the main cooker in the home, and you had to buy a bottle of Kitchen Bouquet to paint meat with so it wouldn't look grey.
Another person that made toilets was named John Crapper! That’s where we get the names for toilets were Johns and crapper, more popular was John even today!
OMG I was obsessed with super soakers in the 90s as a kid. Oh. THATS what Nirvana was on about with "Pennyroyal Tea" lol
Spitzer, yeah, a pretty sharp character.
"After the Roman Empire fell, flushing toilets in western Europe went down the drain" YOU DIDN'T
re: power grid and Edison....you need to read up on the "War of the Currents"
Tesla's AC grid, and 3-phase induction motors, are game changers for the infrastructure that supports all technology
Thank you for pronouncing 'Guglielmo' properly. You don't know how often I've heard it butchered.
Roebling seems to have taken inspiration from the spinning of yarn. It is first spun clockwise, then several 'singles' are spun together counterclockwise, to relax the tension that would cause it to corkscrew in on itself, making it difficult, if not impossible, to use. If you need thicker yarn, you ply it again clockwise, then counterclockwise, until you get the thickness you want.
cat opener invented way after the can.
I am gobsmacked that the pizza thing was only introduced in the 1980s. I would swear that thing existed before that.
Roebling's bridge spans the MONONGAHELA river in Pittsburgh. Not Allegheny. Smithfield Street Bridge.
Does anyone else remember that there was a step between the two-point and the modern three-point seat belt? At least in some cars there was. You still buckled the lap belt like usual, but an entirely separate shoulder belt was automatic. Here's a quick video czcams.com/video/U-f4PuOVGos/video.html My quick research indicates that at the time having those shoulder belts got car manufacturers out of having to have air bags. The problem was that people wouldn't bother to fasten the lap belt, and wearing a shoulder belt with no lap belt was more dangerous than no belt at all, so the law was changed again (probably to the one requiring air bags).
what wasn't between the lap belt and the three point belt. that was between the standalone seat belt and the airbag plus seat belt. and those were invented just before the airbag became a thing. they died back out because the airbag was cheaper to make reliable, and more effective. - but what many people don't know, is that the original idea behind the airbag was that it might compensate for people being macho idiots and not using seat belts.
and before that, the seatbelt and shoulder strap were fastened separately. The shoulder strap could be stored above the windows when not in use.
@@geoffroi-le-Hook I had forgotten that. A shoulder harness that didn't automatically retract seems like it could be dangerously in the way. It was one thing to shove an unused lap belt behind your rear end, but a shoulder harness that fell down into your peripheral vision at the wrong time ... I'm glad I don't remember that!
Chicago, IL US Pizza was brought by deliery in a bag but not like you think. First wax paper was put over the top and then the pie was wrapped in foil before being put in the bag. It was laid flat in transit and arrived ok for the most part. Anybody born after 19806 problaby never experienced it. That was when pizza tasted like pizza., greasy gooey delicious mess!
Another big invention. The Internet. it literally changed the world. And is where we are watching this video on right now!
Outside toilets were still just about around when I was a kid in the late 60s-early '70s. Gran's next-door neighbour still had one she'd make us use if we went to play with her granddaughter lol.
In Wales we call them "y ty bach (twt)" - (required accent not available on my keyboard. Pronounced "uh tea bach - like the composer but the a is a bit shorter, at least in my accent - tut/toot [as in book, not loot]"). Essentially "the (very) little house"; word-for-word, "the house small tiny". Again, the precise translation depends on your locality. I've heard variations on the words meaning small.
I've heard some older people use it as a tongue-in-cheek euphemism to the toilet in general, but not that many these days, sadly. My late dad sometimes used it for our downstairs loo; it was indoors, in what we call a "lean to". That's a single storey addition to the side of the house containing 2-3 small rooms, often used for storage and/or a coal shed.
Houses built post-war, starting in the '50s, as ours was: red brick, 2½ bedrooms. I grew up in one and now live on the other side of the UK in another; the same size overall, same bedrooms - it's two doubles and a "box room", big enough for bunk beds! - just a different layout. Oh, and two gardens, a smaller front one and large back one. They seem to have been integral to the design nationally. I'm rather attached to it as it reminds me of my childhood. As does the thought of the ty bach!
At 9:26 it would have been better to say October 29, 1959 because dates are important. In the 50s is to foggy. Kind of sort of.
'Cludgie', not 'sludgie'. Sheesh.
@5:45 - Nobel committee weren't only ones to recognize him for it, science community as a whole will know his name forever, his name having been turned into a unit of measurement, the roentgen is the unit for x-ray/gamma radiation exposure.
10:54 Denied.
What was the original name of Margret Sanger's Planned Parenthood?
The name sounded like The Knee Grow Project
Fact check me
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ERIN! The melted cheese is worth the flop!
I love going animal style when I poop
... editor and chief I hope still! Messed me up not hearing that
I LOVED that final quote. Can we get that plastered everywhere so all these damn men (yes, I am one) can just let women run the world, already? It would be an inherently better place.
Edison was a thief! He took or took credit for almost everything he is credited with.
Wasn't the dunny invented by Mr. Crapper?
No, just a myth. He made some improvements. The S-Trap was the real innovation.
@@lennelson7012 Oh, then I would have to wonder if the crapper was invented by Al Dunny... 😜
Seatbelts are going to be obsolete in 20-40 years. Think about it.
As you didn't include either movable type for printing, the telephone, or the internet, I can only assume you weren't serious about this list.
You get a pass for x-rays and blood banks. The rest are not worthy of the list.
Safe and Effective, not for the women, or the babies, or society, but yeah eugenicists would label it that.
Correct.