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| Authored by: arnt on Saturday, June 16 2012 @ 08:38 AM EDT |
..to rain on your, Derek and Mark's parade: ;o)
The Wright brothers did not invent "-- stability --",
rather the use of the absence of it, as the first ever
conscious aircraft control strategy, they felt aircraft
should be controlled from the un-stable static state,
"like bicyclists do it."
..their further major innovations was aileron control (thru
wing warping, leaving the ailerons themselves open to Glenn
H. Curtiss), 3-axis control, and the coupling of rudder and
aileron controls to help (novice pilots) produce somewhat
coordinated turns, and (inadvertently,) the use of air
viscosity and air (mass) inertia to ease the control of
statically unstable aircraft, where we nowadays use fancy
fly-by-wire flight computers to try control them.
..I was first on this planet Earth to ever run a(n) (mower)
engine on gas from a thermochemical gasifier fired on
pelletized sewer sludge, and, I did it Myyyyyyyyyyyyyy
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, June 16 2012 @ 08:44 AM EDT |
The Myth of the Sole Inventor (should a monopoly be thus
granted)?
And, for how long.
I wonder how many really "original" ideas or stories, that
there are in literature as well? The monopoly for copyright
is way beyond reasonable time frames.
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| Authored by: jesse on Saturday, June 16 2012 @ 09:38 AM EDT |
Electromagnets were done by Michael Faraday.
Edison used a cotton fiber, not bamboo. And the invention was for a carbonized
thread used to generate light, not metal. Carbon would glow and not evaporate as
fast in a vacuum. Metal filaments would vaporize rather fast (even at room
temperature, metals are actually a liquid - they flow, just very slow). Heat
them up and they melt and boil rather easily.
Carbon is also cheaper than the use of platinum as used in other lights.
Most of his patents on lights are actually for thermal regulators to keep the
metal from overheating...[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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