@syedumair. Well done. I was just going through my feed to see who I could unfollow. I will keep following you.
I thought Tim Berners Lee is credited with creating the WWW?
How about Louis Pasteur or Madame Curie? I know you can’t put everyone, but maybe there are just a few more who could go in.... Archimedes, Leonardo da Vinci, the Wright brothers.....
Usually the media does not see the brilliant potential of new inventions.
When Thomas Edison invented the “Electric Light” the newspapers said that “despite his mountain of promises, he has produced but a mouse of a light”
Here below is a cutting from an 1870’s newspaper saying that the holders of shares in gas-lighting companies have nothing to fear from Thomas Edison’s “electric light”.
The second article informs us that the electric lighting test on Waterloo Bridge are 3 months from extinction as they cannot compete with gas lighting.
I hope you didn’t mind me taking the liberty of down-voting some waste of space comments that add nothing to the debate.
@swissclive
I know I left some big inventions and I think I should write another post to cover those.
Writing about all the major inventions should have made this post of monstrous length but I could have written two or maybe 3 posts.
Along with the ones you pointed out, I think the invention of automobiles and computers will also find their way in the top inventions.
It is really good to see these newspaper cuttings of 1879. Are they yours?
I think media wasn't really excited about the invention of electric bulb by Edison.
I don't mind the downvoting of trash.
You are appreciated for doing that.
I try to downvote trash myself as much as I can..
Yes, these Edison Electric Light articles are from some old newspapers that I purchased in a junk shop. It’s 6 months worth of the London illustrated weekly from 1879.
The weekly science section is very interesting as are the parliament debates on topics like the following:
Should women be allowed to be doctors?
Is breach of (marriage) promise subject to imprisonment or just a fine?
Should children be stopped from buying revolvers and other guns?
Should they make it illegal to drive a Hackney carriage (a horse drawn taxi) while drunk?
The court cases are also interesting. Mixed in with the usual rash of murders and thefts are cases which made the law as we know it today. Particularly painful was the case of the collapse of a Scottish bank in the 1870s, where executors and trustees who were shareholders and acting out of pure benevolence were held to be liable to to total extent of their wealth and not just the trust funds or estate of the deceased.
The reason was the bank had issued shares but it was not a Limited Liability Company. Shareholders were held liable for their whole wealth even when they had acquired the shares in a fiduciary capacity or inherited them on the death of a relative.
That common law decision is still valid in all Common Law countries today.
I forgot to vote your blog earlier. I just did it (big value vote).
It is really painful to see even today in some societies women face restrictions in one way or the other.
We have come a long way and the laws have changed for good but there might still be some ignorant law makers around the world making stupid laws.
I always learn or gain knowledge from you whether you write a post or comment and I really thank you for that.
And thank you for the generous upvote.
My apologies if you find my post 'not well written' as English is not my first language.
@syedumair. I have no problem with people who are struggling to write English as a second language. The world has become very tolerant of those whose English is not up to her Majesty’s standards.
However, in your case, I have not noticed any mistakes, so it fair to say your English is as good asanyone could expect. Keep blogging! You have skill.