Great Inventions That Don't Get The Credit They Should.

[Promised Land]

Turn7 said:

gregs656 said:

Evoluzione said:

Windscreen wipers.
I think this could be a long thread.

The invention of the intermittent windscreen wiper is immortalised in a film called Flash of Genius.

VARIABLE speed intermittant another step up......

All these decades later though the wipers are still in that original design, why hasn’t someone come up with a wiper that clears the entire screen in one go, ie a blade running top to bottom of the screen wiping sideways.

When not in use it’s tucked away at the side of the screen instead of at the bottom always in your view.

[Roboticarm]

psi310398 said:

One major design flaw, however. I’m not quite sure how one is expected to pee in the sink when the WC is taken.

Lol

[anonymous-user]

Promised Land said:

Turn7 said:

gregs656 said:

Evoluzione said:

Windscreen wipers.
I think this could be a long thread.

The invention of the intermittent windscreen wiper is immortalised in a film called Flash of Genius.

VARIABLE speed intermittant another step up......

All these decades later though the wipers are still in that original design, why hasn’t someone come up with a wiper that clears the entire screen in one go, ie a blade running top to bottom of the screen wiping sideways.

When not in use it’s tucked away at the side of the screen instead of at the bottom always in your view.

Terrible idea for so many reasons.

[slopes]

flashbang said:

john2443 said:

I just saw a video on facebook with Steward Copeland (drummer in the Police) about the invention of the bass drum pedal.

Wasn't he the bloke who did the theme tune to the original Equalizer?

[davhill]

Dr Jekyll said:

Whatever it was that happened with car seats in the early 70s that meant they no longer felt like a bag of springs.

I expect it was probably the move to foam or chipfoam. On a
mid-60s Morris Minor Traveller I was involved with, the
cushions were made of rubberised horsehair. Relacements
were hard to source - nobody could tell me where to find
a rubberised horse.

[Glassman]

Evoluzione said:

Windscreen wipers.
I think this could be a long thread.

American inventor Mary Anderson is credited with designing the first operational windscreen wiper in 1903.

[Roofless Toothless]

I have always been very taken by the THREE wipers on Captain Hastings’ Lagonda in the Poirot series on TV.

[motco]

Roofless Toothless said:

I have always been very taken by the THREE wipers on Captain Hastings’ Lagonda in the Poirot series on TV.

[red rider]

How about Venetian blinds! After all if it wasn't for them it would have been curtains for us all

[Catatafish]

Screwthread - makes almost everything so much easier to build and maintain.

[QuartzDad]

Contact lenses.

I can't see how many fingers I'm holding up, can't legally drive a car wearing glasses but with a tiny piece of plastic I can read the bottom line on the chart.

I'm sure they're witchcraft.

[Astacus]

Catatafish said:

Screwthread - makes almost everything so much easier to build and maintain.

More than that. The standardisation of screw threads make Easy repairs possible. Originally threads were not standardised. If I remember correctly the industrial manufacture of firearms lead to standardisation of threads so that parts were interchangeable and repairs were easier.