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Surprising Inventions by Famous People

divinecaroline.com — Some very famous inventors originated items that we still use every day, and even those who didn¹t fill sketchbooks full of ideas sometimes had a flash of brilliance that resulted in a product that has lasted until our modern age.

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  • DeskFlyer, on 07/09/2009, -2/+41Internet - Al Gore
  • XkenX87, on 07/09/2009, -0/+29"I cant believe its not butter"
    -Napoleon III
  • inactive, on 07/09/2009, -0/+19and then Schrodinger killed it..........or not.
  • punzada, on 07/09/2009, -1/+16Who would of thought 'Surprising Inventions by Famous People' would include mostly famous inventors.
  • CB810, on 07/09/2009, -0/+15Awesome was invented by The Fonz
  • inactive, on 07/09/2009, -1/+15Babbage was greatest of all
  • Balanced, on 07/09/2009, -0/+14That's Hedley!
  • OLTP, on 07/09/2009, -2/+16"Newton, who liked having his feline companion nearby, cut a hole in the door and covered it with felt, so that kitty could come and go without disturbing his laboratory. When the cat had kittens, he even cut tiny flaps into the wood for them to use."

    Awww =^.^=
  • shutaro, on 07/09/2009, -0/+12I didn't know that Isaac Newton invented the Cat.
  • DarthVolta, on 07/09/2009, -0/+11'have'
  • serif69, on 07/09/2009, -0/+11Man, Hedy Lamarr sure let herself go by the time she was in Blazing Saddles.
  • Greengoo, on 07/09/2009, -0/+9Hedy Lamarr invented stealth torpedoes. Neato.
  • IIECONII, on 07/09/2009, -1/+9You know I think this is funny too, but I think we better stop spreading long-lived lies on the intertubes. Here's why:

    Some youngin' (read: around 13yo) is going to sign on to Digg one day, see that someone claims that Al Gore invented the interwebs, gets corroboration through another guy who agrees, only they're separated by months of this kid's internet activity.
    Because of the time span, and the concurring agreement between the two answers, this 13yo now actually BELIEVES this, spreads his lies to others and through the avoidance of actually USING the internet to check his sources, and then all of the sudden it's 2012 and Al Gore gets a Nobel Prize for inventing the internet.

    ...maybe THAT'S the "apocalypse" in 2012?
  • joshuaer, on 07/09/2009, -0/+7Evil corporates bent on making more money with less content : invented the multi page article when really it should be one page.
  • RealmDown, on 07/09/2009, -0/+6He didn't, but Heisenberg may have...
  • StigNordas, on 07/09/2009, -0/+5I didn't realize Benjamin Franklin dabbled in animal stomach casings.
  • chinaman1212, on 07/09/2009, -0/+5aaaaaaaaaaye
  • staystilljason, on 07/09/2009, -0/+5This article deserves a giant
    http://milbut.org/images/the_more_you_know2.jpg
  • Vengefultacos, on 07/09/2009, -0/+5The "Napoleon III invented margarine" is lame filler... the article admits he in effect signed an R&D order to have someone invent a butter substitute. It's like saying FDR invented the nuke.
  • secrity, on 07/09/2009, -0/+5And co-invented spread spectrum radio.
  • jojowasa, on 07/09/2009, -0/+5Who would have known Mark Twain had a scrapbooking habit.
  • soggydave2113, on 07/09/2009, -0/+4Would have been better if they included the invention in each heading and not just the inventor.
  • lolwatermelon, on 07/09/2009, -0/+4Back then EVERYTHING was invented in a barn.
  • Slipin, on 07/09/2009, -0/+4Newton single-handedly invented Calculus eh?
  • Methusalah, on 07/09/2009, -0/+4He did. I checked.
  • adorkable81, on 07/09/2009, -0/+3Why the "butter" picture are in there.

    I was really looking forward to see who invent the "butter". What a let down
  • bobburn1, on 07/09/2009, -1/+4Buried for two pages to display 4 items (5th was BS, he didn't invent *****). Oh, and it's Divine Caroline so it gets the insta-bury anyway.
  • zomgorly, on 07/09/2009, -0/+3I wasn't really surprised
  • realmadrid2727, on 07/09/2009, -0/+3Looking just at the photos, for a second there I thought Ben Franklin invented Cat-5 ethernet cables.
  • Black6x, on 07/10/2009, -0/+3Gov. William J. LePetomane: Thank you, Hedy, thank you.
    Hedley Lamarr: It's not 'Hedy', it's 'Hedley'. Hedley Lamarr.
    Gov. William J. LePetomane: What the hell are you worried about? This is 1874. You'll be able to sue 'her'.
  • anillop, on 07/09/2009, -0/+2Franklin also dabbled in lots of French noble ladies as well.
  • lemur, on 07/09/2009, -1/+3It's impossible to know whether he killed it or not.
  • SeanyMac, on 07/09/2009, -0/+2Wow, who would have thought that Ted Danson wrote the first Snapple Cap fact.
  • Sideshowslob, on 07/09/2009, -1/+2Fail.
  • graemee, on 07/09/2009, -0/+1Yes, he invented the douche.
  • CaptSpanky, on 07/09/2009, -1/+2And where would soft ice cream be without Margaret Thatcher.. Mrs Whippy indeed.
  • Sideshowslob, on 07/09/2009, -1/+2"Hey look what I found over here"

    "Where da white women at?"
  • XkenX87, on 07/09/2009, -0/+1I checked to see if you were one of them YouTubers from yesterday.
  • rpelayo, on 07/09/2009, -0/+1Babbage never completed a single engine design and the science museum proved the difference engine could have been completed using victorian production methods ending the myth that engineering of the day couldn't have completed the engine. Babbage had the potential to be great but ended up a flop at best, failure at worst.
  • XkenX87, on 07/09/2009, -0/+1Well, luckily we keep better records of people now.

    maybe not luckily
  • 4AntiStupid, on 07/09/2009, -0/+1I wonder if Newton ever had a fawn lumber through his door.
  • flossdaily, on 07/10/2009, -1/+1#1) Al Gore never claimed to invent the internet. The actual quote was "I took the initiative in creating the internet."

    #2) That statement was absolutely true. Al Gore paved the way for government funding of Arpanet, the predecessor to the modern internet. It was visionary, and changed the world forever.

    Shame on all of us for letting the Republicans twist one of Gore's greatest accomplishments into a punchline. Our punishment was 8 years of Bush.

    see for yourself: http://sethf.com/gore/
  • XkenX87, on 07/09/2009, -1/+1Everyone has aids it doesn't even matter.
  • CaughtThinking, on 07/09/2009, -3/+2Best article ever.
  • homedaddy, on 07/09/2009, -2/+1I don't care how famous my relatives are, I'm not letting them cram something invented in the barn into my johnson!
  • perrycarter, on 07/09/2009, -8/+4This article is wrong. God invented all of that stuff.
  • inactive, on 07/09/2009, -10/+3"Now with more gaylord."

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