controversial inventions and strange discoveries

Windscreen Wipers

An inventor Robert Kearns first time introduced windscreen wipers and presented his design to Ford, which was the leading car company of that time. Ford reviewed his idea but rejected it.

Few years later Ford introduced a car with similar type of wipers. Kearns filed case upon them. The facts that Ford presented were that wipers didn’t had any of the specific component which can be recognized by Kearn’s name. That’s the reason after fighting the case for 15 years and spending $10 million legal fees, he still lost the case.


Aviator Watch


The name itself leads to many controversies. The aviator allows to measure true air speed more accurately.This idea can save many airplanes from just crashing into pieces. Yeslam invent this aviator because of this father’s death in a plane crash. Aviator is aimed for their better performance of professional pilots, though the American pilots just don’t seem to be using it. It looks like, that they think this aviator is haunted by the curse of Yeslam’s  Half brother, Osama.


Invention of Radio


The controversy related to radio runs around two people Nikola Tesla and ITALIAN Gugliemo Marconi. Tesla introduced the idea of the practical use of radio waves, but he had poor business mind and didn’t applied his own idea, while Marconi formulated this idea practically and became first man to make radio. Controversy was that who should be known as the father of radio. US courts gave the credit to Marconi but Tesla died in fighting for the title which should be given to him. Though he succeeded after 40 years but died few months before the final decision.


Movie Camera


Controversy arose when credit for the movie camera invention was to be given. In U.S Thomas Edison first created moving pictures. William Friese from UK invented camera. For cinematography credit was to be given to Louis and August .A Frenchman Louis Le Prince invented motion picture camera.

All of them showed remarkable contributions, but after a long time controversy it was decided that the credit of making movie camera goes to Louis Le Prince.

Light Bulb


Who should be given the credit! Thomas Edison invented incandescent light, Wairen de La Rue first run electricity through filament. A British scientist Humphry Davy first invented crude electric light.

Swann invented prototype bulb and he has the honor of having a house which was first illuminated through electricity. But when Edison started his bulb journey it was much more remarkable. So credit of first reliable bulb goes to Edison but the father of the idea should be given to Warren de La Rue.

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Invention of Calculus


Two names revolve in the history of calculus, Isaac Newton and Gottfried Leibniz. Controversy arose when the credit of inventing calculus was given to Gottfried.

Friends of Newton objected that this kind of calculations were present in Newton’s books from a long time. So after a long discussion it was proved that Newton invented infinitesimal calculus while Leibniz invented integral and differential calculus.
 
Whale faces


Whales have a bad reputation related to global warming due to the fact that they breathe out a lot of CO2. However, a research of their feces could make them more lovable. It was revealed that whale feces are loaded with big amount of iron, which were good news for the marine life of southern oceans, which are really poor of iron.

Taking Pictures?


Mathematicians Nic Svenson and Piers Barnes of the Australian Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization gifted the world with their amazing and useful discovery. They revealed the number of photographs that must be taken to (almost) ensure that nobody in a group photo will have their eyes closed. It’s good to know: for groups of less than 20, you divide the number of people by three if there’s good light or a decent flash, and two if the light’s bad.