C.T. Russell Claimed Modern Inventions Were Harbingers of the Millennium (page 3)

minimus

Great thread!! RR----I've seen that rat!

Kenneson

Although there have been inventions since ancient times, here is a list beginning in 1800 up to 1874.

Date Invention Inventor

1800 electric battery Alessandro Volta

1804 steam railway locomotive Richard Trevithick

1810 food canning Nicholas Appert

1814 spectroscope Joseph von Frauenhofer

1816 stethoscope Theophile Laennec; fire extinguisher George Manby

1817 dental plate Anthony Plantson

1822 "analytic engine" Charles Babbage

1824 Portland cement Joseph Aspdin, electromagnet William Sturgeon

1826 car (gas powered) Samuel Brown; photography (metal) Joseph Niepce; safety match John Walker

1827 endoscope Pierre Segalas

1830 lawnmower Edward Budding

1831 electric generator Michael Faraday

1834 braille Louis Braille, galvanometer Andre Ampere

1835 photography (paper) William Fox Talbot; revolver Samuel Colt

1837 telegraph code Samuel Morse

1839 bicycle Kirkpatrick MacMillan

1843 railway (underground) Charles Pearson

1844 propeller ship Isambard Kingdom Brunel

1845 pneumatic tire Robert Thomson

1846 anesthetics William Morton

1849 safety pin Walter Hunt

1851 sewing machine Isaac Singer; heat pump Lord Kelvin

1853 lift Elisha Otis

1853 glider Sir George Cayley; hypodermic syringe Alexander Wood

1855 bunsen burner Peter Desdega

1858 burglar alarm Edwin Holmes

1860 steel production (blast furnace) Henry Bessemer; linoleum Frederick Walton

1861 pneumatic drill Germain Sommelier

1862 refrigerator James Harrison; rapid-fire gun R. Gatlin

1863 barbiturates Adof von Bayer

1865 antiseptics Joseph Lister

1866 cable car W. Ritter

1867 dynamite Alfred Nobel

1868 typewriter Christopher Sholes (remember Russell said it took 6 yrs. to develop the process; thus he has 1874 as the date for the invention of the typewriter)

1870 plastics (celluloid) John Wesley Hyatt;industrial dynamo or electric motor (DC) Zenobe Gramma

Actually I found no invention for 1874. The first practical electric light bulb was invented by Edison in 1879. But as early as 1808, an English scientist named Humphrey Davy had made a bulb in which a piece of thin metal would glow. The problem, which baffled inventors for years, was to find something that would glow but would not quickly burn itself out. After months of trial and error, Edison discovered an answer--thin cotton thread coated with carbon.

For a link on ancient inventions with photos and explanations go to

http://www.smith.edu/hsc/museum/ancient_inventions/disclaim.htm

Just think of these ancient inventions that were so essential to mankind:

the wheel in 3480 B.C. by the Sumerian civilization

writing in 3500 B.C., also by the Sumerian civilization

soap 2500 B.C., also by the Sumerian civilization

bricks in 6,000 B.C. Jericho

the saw in 4000 B.C. by the Egyptian civilization

bronze in 3700 B.C. by the Sumerian civilization

the lathe in 1500 B.C. by the Greek civilization

minimus

Yeah, but that's before the 1870's. It can't fulfill Bible (Russell) prophecy.

Leolaia

And why stop at 1800 or even the Industrial Revolution? After all, wasn't the Renaissance a time of great scientific discovery and invention?

1608 refracting telescope (Hans Lippershey)
1620 human-powered submarine
1624 the slide ruler (William Oughtred)
1625 blood transfusion (Jean-Baptiste Denys)
1629 steam turbine (Giovanni Branca)
1636 micrometer (W. Gascoigne)
1642 the adding machine (Blaise Pascal)
1643 barometer (Evangelista Torricelli)
1650 air pump (Otto von Guericke)
1656 pendulum clock (Christian Huygens)
1663 reflecting telescope (James Gregory )
1670 Champagne (Dom Pérignon)
1671 calculating machine (Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz)
1673 microscope (Anton van Leeuwenhoek)
1675 pocket watch (Christian Huygens)
1676 universal joint (Robert Hooke)
1679 pressure cooker (Denis Papin)
1698 steam pump (Thomas Savery
1701 seed drill (Jethro Tull)
1709 piano (Bartolomeo Cristofori)
1711 the tuning fork (John Shore)
1712 atmospheric steam engine (Thomas Newcomen)
1717 diving bell (Edmond Halley)
1722 fire extinguisher (French C. Hopffer)
1724 mercury thermometer (Gabriel Fahrenheit)
1733 flying shuttle (John Kay)
1745 electrical capacitor (E.G. von Kleist)
1752 lightening rod (Benjamin Franklin)
1755 sewing machine (Charles T. Wiesenthal)
1757 the sextant (John Campbell)
1758 chromatic lens (Dolland)
1761 marine chronometer (John Harrison)
1764 spinning jenny (James Hargreaves)
1767 carbonated water (Joseph Priestley)
1767 jigsaw puzzle (John Spilsbury)
1768 the spinning frame (Richard Arkwright)
1769 steam engine (James Watt)
1774 electric telegraph (Georges Louis Lesage)
1775 flush toilet (Alexander Cummings)
1775 the steamship (Jacques Perrier)
1776 iron-clad submarine (David Bushnell)
1780 bi-focal eyeglasses (Benjamin Franklin).
1780 circular saw (Gervinus)
1783 parachute (Louis Sebastien
1783 self-winding clock (Benjamin Hanks)
1783 hot-air balloon (Joseph Michel Montgolfier and Jacques Etienne Montgolfier)
1784 steam roller (Henry Cort)
1784 threshing machine (Andrew Meikle).
1784 safety lock (Joseph Bramah)
1785 power loom (Edmund Cartwright)
1785 chemical bleaching (Claude Berthollet)
1786 the steamboat (John Fitch)
1789 the guillotine
1790 Franklin stove ( David R. Rittenhouse )
1791 gas turbine (John Barber)
1792 gas lighting (William Murdoch)
1794 cotton gin (Eli Whitney)
1794 ball bearings (Philip Vaughan)
1795 food preservation (Francois Appert)
1796 smallpox vaccination (Edward Jenner)
1797 metal precision lathe (Henry Maudslay)
1798 soft drinks
1798 lithography (Aloys Senefelder)
1799 the battery (Alessandro Volta)

johnny cip

ty kenneson and leolaia for the fine research. that at this point i'm no longer willing to do. to expose false wt teachings either before or after russell. once you take a historical look into wt teaching on increased knowledge, wars, famine, earthquakes, pestelicies, time of the end etc. it comes so easy to see that the wt leaders are trying to say all these things are happening in their life time. to forefull bible prophecy so they can see armageddom. i guess that's why my jw dad would never go to the public library with me to look up. any of these wacky wt ideas to test them. even when i borrowed books from the library on some of these subjects dad would not even look at them. i researched many of these subjects about 5 years ago for a few months all at the public library . when a jw tells you the wt has nothing to hide, and you do some research (non bibical) in this instance. they fall fast . after my little stint at the public library , it was very clear . the jw's had no care for facts. what so ever. from rr comments, it confirms also the original bible students are of the same mold as the jw's. blind... john

minimus

No debate on that Mr. Cip!

Erich

Interestingly, the recent developments in technology and science, though extremely important for the future of mankind, does not impress the WTS very much;-(

I wonder why.

E.

minimus

Um, they don't like the internet (for some reason).

Kenneson

And don't forget two of the most important inventions for the Bible Students and then JWs were paper by the Chinese in 105 A.D. and the printing press by Johannes Gutenberg in 1455. Russell's printing factory could never have gotten off the ground in 1879 without these.

TheOldHippie

Whoops! So I did! But I definitely added "North" and "South" and not "native" ..........

C.T. Russell Claimed Modern Inventions Were Harbingers of the Millennium

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