highwaystar101 on 25 April 2009
| The Ghost of RubangB said: What changed about the computer and steam engine to make the ancient ones not count? Too small? Does that make them somehow not computers or steam engines? Maybe the British gave those ancient thousand-year-old boring inventions major advancements that led to major breakthroughs, and maybe those breakthroughs involved new inventions of their own, but I wouldn't call those "inventing the computer and steam engine." And I definitely give radio to Tesla. The whole world tries to steal his legacy; it's hilarious. |
Antikythera mechanism was mechanical, it didn't work on anywhere near the same principle as computers we know and how Alan Turing defined.
Steam engine you could say it was them, but practical uses required inventions and innovations that came from Britain and other countries. It is a greek idea, or maybe older, but the innoivations that made the technology practical came from elsewhere.
To be honest I'm amazed Edison didn't theive the radio off Tesla, because Edison stole most the stuff he invented by the sounds of things. But I just looked up radio invention, it looks like Marconi did it in 1893 and Tesla in 1895, but boith have rights to claim it.
