The Truth About 10 Famous Inventions
Did Thomas Edison invent the lightbulb? I mean... kind of... but also... no. Every great, world-changing invention is the culmination of efforts by dozens or hundreds of people, spanning decades or centuries. Hosted by: Hank Green ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Dooblydoo thanks go to the following Patreon supporters -- we couldn t make SciShow without them! Shout out to Justin Ove, Accalia Elementia, Kathy & Tim Philip, Kevin Bealer, Justin Lentz, Fatima Iqbal, Thomas J., Chris Peters, Tim Curwick, Lucy McGlasson, Andreas Heydeck, Will and Sonja Marple, Mark Terrio-Cameron, Charles George, Christopher Collins, and Patrick D. Ashmore. ---------- Like SciShow? Want to help support us, and also get things to put on your walls, cover your torso and hold your liquids? Check out our awesome products over at DFTBA Records: http://dftba.com/scishow ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/06/forget-edison-this-is-how-historys-greatest-inventions-really-happened/258525/ http://all-that-is-interesting.com/famous-inventors http://listverse.com/2009/04/10/top-10-wrongly-attributed-inventions/ http://time.com/3517011/thomas-edison/ http://www.bulbs.com/learning/history.aspx http://www.mitsubishielectric.com/elevator/overview/elevators/history.html http://www.livescience.com/44186-who-invented-the-steam-engine.html http://www.egr.msu.edu/~lira/supp/steam/ http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/cotton-gins https://www.asme.org/engineering-topics/articles/manufacturing-processing/eli-whitney https://www.loc.gov/rr/scitech/mysteries/auto.html http://www.britannica.com/biography/Henry-Ford http://www.space.com/21950-who-invented-the-telescope.html http://science.howstuffworks.com/innovation/inventions/who-invented-the-radio.htm http://www.airspacemag.com/history-of-flight/who-flew-first-290750/?no-ist http://www.britannica.com/technology/history-of-flight http://www.crtsite.com/page3.html https://www.nyu.edu/classes/stephens/History%20of%20Television%20page.htm http://arstechnica.com/features/2005/05/gui/7/ http://www.britannica.com/technology/graphical-user-interface
