Posted: Apr 06, 2017 6:11 am
by Manticore
Macdoc wrote:
Cs: I was using IC logic gates in 1967 and they'd been around a fair while by then (Lab Assistants didn't get to play with the latest toys!)

Borderline 50s as the patent was 1959 and application a while out.

OLED screens: André Bernanose and co-workers at the Nancy-Université in France made the first observations of electroluminescence in organic materials in the early 1950s.

that is not invention - that is fundmental science...
This is invention

Universal Display Corporation (UDC) is a developer and manufacturer of organic light emitting diodes (OLED) technologies and materials as well as provider of services to the display and lighting industries. It is also an OLED research company. Founded in 1994, the company currently owns or has exclusive, co-exclusive or sole license rights with respect to more than 3,000 issued and pending patents worldwide for the commercialization of phosphorescent based OLEDs and also flexible, transparent and stacked OLEDs - for both display and lighting applications. Its phosphorescent OLED technologies and materials are licensed and supplied to companies such as Samsung, LG, AU Optronics CMEL, Pioneer, Panasonic Idemitsu OLED lighting and Konica Minolta.


In addition to OLED you have Texas Instruments DLP patent driving many theatre and home projectors.

IC lenses: Not sure what you mean by this - the name seems to cover a multitude of things from soft contact lenses to fancy lights for buses.

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-36438686

Hyperloop: Russian professor Boris Weinberg (ru) offered a vactrain concept in 1914 in the book Motion without friction (airless electric way). He also built the world's first model of his proposed transport in Tomsk Polytechnic University in 1909.

I'll give you that but generally an invention is something useable not a "concept"

Self Driving Cars: "American designer and futurist Norman Bel Geddes mated the Autobahn vision with the sorts of electronic speed and collision control systems common to railroads. His spectacular Futurama ride for General Motors at the 1939 World’s Fair also imagined trench-like lanes that would keep cars apart in their own “tracks.” The idea was to drive to the freeway normally, then engage the automatic systems and kick back until your exit."

again concepts are not "inventions" in the sense of useable technology.
While there have been a number of approaches to roadway modification ...autonomous vehicles is current as they are able to navigate on their own ...
The Grand Challenge by DARPA was hilarious in the first stages

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA_Grand_Challenge

Fully autonomous vehicles have been an international pursuit for many years, from endeavors in Japan (starting in 1977), Germany (Ernst Dickmanns and VaMP), Italy (the ARGO Project), the European Union (EUREKA Prometheus Project), the United States of America, and other countries.


Though efforts have escalated significantly in the last five years, autonomous cars are not a new concept. Initial research can be traced back all the way to the 1920s when Houdina Radio Control demonstrated a radio controlled car in front of the New York public. In 1939, Futurama depicted cars which could use embedded systems in and under roadways to guide themselves. Later, during the 1960s, several universities started active research on autonomous cars technology with The Ohio State University and Stanford University being pioneers, though almost all the research at the time was focused on modifying roadways to guide autonomous cars. The 1980s saw the change of focus from modifying road systems to improving cars to be autonomous irrespective of road conditions.


3D Printing: The first published account of a printed solid model was made by Hideo Kodama of Nagoya Municipal Industrial Research Institute in 1982. [Only 35 years ago - so one to you there.]


more than one boyo :D
Composites: Plywood ~3400 BC Mesopotamia. Fiberglass: "In 1935, Owens Corning introduced the first glass fiber, fiberglass."

sloppy on my part ...carbon fibre composites was my intention thinking of aircraft and other uses....patent was 1967
Patent US3473900 - Aluminum-carbon fiber composites - Google ...
https://www.google.com/patents/US3473900
6L 9 R. v. SARA 3,473,900. ALUMINUM-CARBON FIBER COMPOSITES Filed Feb. 21, 1967 INVENTOR RAYMOND V. SARA ATTORNEY 3 473 900 ...


And many, many more - my favourite pastime is studying the history of technology.


then you really should keep up :whistle:

My favourite pastime is keeping up with advanced technology .... :dance:

Let's ADD CRISPR to the game changing patents ( still fighting over who gets the very large brass ring )
It's become a spectator sport...
http://www.nature.com/news/why-the-cris ... ry-1.21510

I count Elon Musk as the most successful inventor of the 21st centry tho there are some more prolific ones.

https://www.quora.com/Whos-the-most-suc ... -2000-2015

I also put the story of the invention of useable blue light LED as one of the most amazing efforts against all odds.

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Together with Isamu Akasaki and Hiroshi Amano, he is one of the three recipients of the 2014 Nobel Prize for Physics "for the invention of efficient blue light-emitting diodes, which has enabled bright and energy-saving white light sources".
Shuji Nakamura - Wikipedia


they sure keep you awake tho :D

so yes there is lots new under the sun
:coffee:


By the time these things reach production, I've usually known about them for so long that I've lost interest. If you want real advances you should look at medicine - now there is real progress. (Of course I will probably be long gone before any of it becomes generally available.)