http://listverse.com/2009/04/10/top-10-wrongly-attributed-inventions/ Ultimate Top 10 Lists - Listverse Sun, 27 May 2012 00:00:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://listverse.com/2009/04/10/top-10-wrongly-attributed-inventions/comment-page-5/#comment-483472 Tue, 01 May 2012 02:16:18 +0000 http://listverse.com/science/top-10-wrongly-attributed-inventions/#comment-483472 The 14-Bis of Dumont had a self-propelled takeoff, officially recognized by the public and journalists in Paris on 26 October 1906.
The flight of the Wright brothers used a catapult was …

]]> http://listverse.com/2009/04/10/top-10-wrongly-attributed-inventions/comment-page-5/#comment-482831 Fri, 27 Apr 2012 16:53:08 +0000 http://listverse.com/science/top-10-wrongly-attributed-inventions/#comment-482831 Radio was invented by Jagadish Chandra Bose ( Calcutta, India) ….

]]> http://listverse.com/2009/04/10/top-10-wrongly-attributed-inventions/comment-page-5/#comment-478856 Sat, 14 Apr 2012 13:44:29 +0000 http://listverse.com/science/top-10-wrongly-attributed-inventions/#comment-478856 Actually most of these are very well known. Edison was a bloody thief and honestly, tell me who didn’t know about Röntgen and Le Prince? I mean, children in elementary school learn that.

]]> http://listverse.com/2009/04/10/top-10-wrongly-attributed-inventions/comment-page-5/#comment-473687 Tue, 27 Mar 2012 14:53:36 +0000 http://listverse.com/science/top-10-wrongly-attributed-inventions/#comment-473687 Ref: light bulb/Edison
Wiki-Joseph Swan
edison was a developer rather than inventor?

]]> http://listverse.com/2009/04/10/top-10-wrongly-attributed-inventions/comment-page-1/#comment-455740 Sun, 29 Jan 2012 02:25:24 +0000 http://listverse.com/science/top-10-wrongly-attributed-inventions/#comment-455740 They often say he made ideas better or something to that effect but the truth is he stole from other inventors and used bribes, strong arming and slander to keep himself on the top. Saying he made things better is just a weak attempt at defending him and his actions.

]]> http://listverse.com/2009/04/10/top-10-wrongly-attributed-inventions/comment-page-5/#comment-420544 Wed, 28 Sep 2011 05:40:04 +0000 http://listverse.com/science/top-10-wrongly-attributed-inventions/#comment-420544 Great list. Very interesting.

]]> http://listverse.com/2009/04/10/top-10-wrongly-attributed-inventions/comment-page-5/#comment-413840 Tue, 30 Aug 2011 19:13:52 +0000 http://listverse.com/science/top-10-wrongly-attributed-inventions/#comment-413840 What about the lady who found DNA?

]]> http://listverse.com/2009/04/10/top-10-wrongly-attributed-inventions/comment-page-1/#comment-413428 Mon, 29 Aug 2011 16:08:38 +0000 http://listverse.com/science/top-10-wrongly-attributed-inventions/#comment-413428 You are thinking of the World Wide Web, which is just part of the internet. It was invented around 1990 by Tim Berners-Lee of CERN.

]]> http://listverse.com/2009/04/10/top-10-wrongly-attributed-inventions/comment-page-5/#comment-409713 Wed, 17 Aug 2011 14:03:04 +0000 http://listverse.com/science/top-10-wrongly-attributed-inventions/#comment-409713 Powered flight? I am 100% certain its Clément Ader.

]]> http://listverse.com/2009/04/10/top-10-wrongly-attributed-inventions/comment-page-5/#comment-360325 Wed, 09 Feb 2011 05:22:33 +0000 http://listverse.com/science/top-10-wrongly-attributed-inventions/#comment-360325 On the Henry Ford I always thought he was known more for the perfecting of the mads production concept. Maybe I’m just a gear head but I knew that multiple versions of the automobile had been developed many years before the beloved Model T.

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