Posted on 06/01/2016 7:02:42 PM PDT by MtnClimber
Memorial Day is a holiday devoted to remembering lives lost in war. The soldiers who made the ultimate sacrifice to protect civilian freedoms deserve nothing less than respect. Often lost in the Memorial Day discussions are scientists and inventors who created machines and devices to prevent those lives from being lost in the first place. This Memorial Day we look back at six scientists who thought they’d found a way to do just that - only to see those inventions added to the war machine they wanted to stop.
Alfred Nobel
Invention: Dynamite
Alfred Nobel was a Swedish chemist, inventor, and engineer who was fluent in 5 languages by the age of 17. He is best known today as the creator of the Nobel Peace Prize, the highest honor for "those who, during the preceding year, shall have conferred the greatest benefit to mankind” according to his will. But as dedicated a humanitarian as Nobel was, his devotion to the Prize was born from his most famous invention: dynamite. Patented in 1867, Nobel invented dynamite as a safer, more stable construction explosive to nitroglycerin, which killed his younger brother Emil.
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Exactly ... or should I say ex machinactly.
0bama won a Nobel Peace Prize. I wonder if Nobel is rolling over in his grave or if 0bama, maybe at his judgement day, will regret the social chaos he invented.
Yeah like maybe several decades later, perhaps. Like eventually the auto companies would have come up with the electric windshield wiper, fifty years after Ford. And we would have had to invade Japan with the resulting casualties on both sides.
The guy that cracked the shell and though, “I wonder what that slimy thing taste like”
Invented the Raw Oyster thing.
I’ve never seen it but I know it’s a 2015 movie called Ex Machina.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ex_Machina_(film)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0470752/
If you didn’t invent it then someone else would eventually
Web page op up ads, take over ads and self starting webpage videos. Any kind of animated web page ad.
Cards in magazines.
Phony white guilt that elected Obama in the first place.
Jughead will probably tell God that He's sitting in his chair - he's that arrogant...
Can we guess the leanings of this blog?
Idiot upset about pepper spray because of duh poor widdle OWS scum? Please!
As for the Wrights....IIRC, I’m pretty sure their demos to the army included “bombing” targets. And the misleading writing makes you think they both lived some time. But Wilbur died in1912, hardly any time to push greatly for safety and wring his hands over that.
I thought that was a leftist slant too. Would the writer like to face a Japanese samaurai or a hitler gas chamber? Why no mentions of those?
Oh, and no mention of mohammad and his religion of peas.
Carl Zeiss anything is a beautiful thing.
Though I’m still happy with my Mamiya lenses....
I just watched that a few weeks ago. Interesting morality tale, I thought.
One of the great features of FR.....experts on every subject.
Is the Scientist who Invented Liberalism on the List?
Watch the Heavy Water War. And pay attention to the German Jew that envisioned power via energy.
Po widdle Johnnie Sylvan is kwi-in all the way to the bank.
Any award that Obama, Jimmy Carter, and Yasser Arafat can win, is like the club that would accept Groucho, not worth having or being in.
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