Michael Faraday invented the rubber balloon
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Michael Faraday invented the rubber balloon
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Re: Michael Faraday invented the rubber balloon
#2He should also be credited presumably with
- characterizing static electricity
- transformers (power transmission, wall warts, spark plugs)
- air conditioning / refrigeration / chlorine/ammonia's endothermic phase change from liquid to gas[0]
Re: Michael Faraday invented the rubber balloon
#3Some people really are just on a different level. I also put John von Neumann[0] on this level.
Re: Michael Faraday invented the rubber balloon
#4Yes but arguably, Ben Franklin invented the Faraday cage. :-)
Re: Michael Faraday invented the rubber balloon
#5He should also be credited presumably with - characterizing static electricity - transformers (power transmission, wall warts, spark plugs) - air conditioning / refrigeration / chlorine/ammonia's endothermic phase change from liquid to gas[0] [0] https://youtu.be/up8LqQMLvK8?t=1470
> He should also be credited presumably with
> - transformers
I think you're thinking of Michael Bay, not Faraday
Re: Michael Faraday invented the rubber balloon
#6He should also be credited presumably with - characterizing static electricity - transformers (power transmission, wall warts, spark plugs) - air conditioning / refrigeration / chlorine/ammonia's endothermic phase change from liquid to gas[0] [0] https://youtu.be/up8LqQMLvK8?t=1470
> He should also be credited presumably with > - transformers I think you're thinking of Michael Bay, not Faraday
You mean Ashish Vaswani et al.?
Re: Michael Faraday invented the rubber balloon
#7More interesting to me is this history on balloon animals:
> The Aztecs created the first balloon sculptures using wildcat intestines, which were then presented to the gods as a sacrifice.
Re: Michael Faraday invented the rubber balloon
#8He should also be credited presumably with - characterizing static electricity - transformers (power transmission, wall warts, spark plugs) - air conditioning / refrigeration / chlorine/ammonia's endothermic phase change from liquid to gas[0] [0] https://youtu.be/up8LqQMLvK8?t=1470
> He should also be credited presumably with > - transformers I think you're thinking of Michael Bay, not Faraday
No, that was Michael Hasbro.
Re: Michael Faraday invented the rubber balloon
#9More interesting to me is this history on balloon animals: > The Aztecs created the first balloon sculptures using wildcat intestines, which were then presented to the gods as a sacrifice.
Now I imagine Aztecs offering balloon animals made out of wildcat intestines to their gods.
Re: Michael Faraday invented the rubber balloon
#10His "Chemical History of a Candle" Christmas lecture is a masterpiece in science education. Narrated here by Bill Hammack - the engineerguy: