[dfwgator]

The Internet - Algore

[HighSierra5]

Idi Ameen invented the airplane doncha know?

[doorgunner69]

The “Flying Tail”

Jack Ridley.

[Morgana]

South Park

Sir Harrington tells the court the proper way to “take a Sir Harrington”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2B-0tTsgHY

[The Antiyuppie]

The most important invention Thomas Edison came up with was the R+D Lab!

His most important discovery, the Edison Effect, never really made him any money, he could not scientifically explain it, yet was the fundamental mechanism that powered vacuum tubes.

[PIF]

The Telescope

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Was rediscovered by Hans Lippershey in 1608 & Galileo.

There is more than ample evidence that the telescope goes back at least as far as Old Kingdom Egypt. Evidence is diopter ground glass and crystal lens: convex, plano and concave (classified in museums as ‘jewelry’), and various surviving literature from Roman times.

[zeugma]

The real innovation from Ford was the assembly line. It turned what had previously been a very manual process into something that could produce a complex device at industrial scale. Other folk may have had similar ideas previously, but Ford showed the world how it should be done.

The "automobile" itself was an iterative 'invention'. Many people were working on the same idea at the same time. There were many variations developed, using many different fuel sources.