Past predictions question (computer/air travel)
I heard from a friend somewhere that There was a man back in the day that described computer like machines and "birds that flew people" (airplanes) in the future. There is a lot of "prediction" crap out there, but anyone will get points if you're a better google searcher than I am. I can't find a single reference or source of anyone that predicted anything like the computer or the airplane in current times. Even someone in the industrial age that briefly wrote about it would be fine.
Nowadays, we have a lot of predictions about nanotechnology in the future, there must have been someone that saw currrent technological advances in the near/far future.
Anything would be appreciated
Nowadays, we have a lot of predictions about nanotechnology in the future, there must have been someone that saw currrent technological advances in the near/far future.
Anything would be appreciated
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Rockets:
Timeline of rocket and missile technology
"1633 - Lagari Hasan Çelebi from Turkey becomes the first man to pilot a rocket-powered flying machine."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_rocket_and_missile_technology
and
"Exactly when the first flights of rockets occurred is contested. Some say that the first recorded use of a rocket in battle was by the Chinese in 1232 against the Mongol hordes."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocket#In_antiquity
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Moore's Law, although based on an extrapolation, is surprisingly accurate.
There have been various famous predictions made throughout history:
The existence of Neptune was predicted through mathematical modelling based on Sir Isaac Newton's Law of gravity
Radio waves were predicted by James Clerk Maxwell
The existence of Neptune was predicted through mathematical modelling based on Sir Isaac Newton's Law of gravity
Radio waves were predicted by James Clerk Maxwell
How about the fusion in human chromosome 2 giving us 23 chromosomes instead of 24, along with the subsequent matching up of human genes with genes of the other great apes to add evidence that the chromosomes that fused were identified?
Nobody knew what to look for when the idea that man and ape had common ancestry entered into scientific thought. Nobody even knew that DNA existed, much less its relationship to genetics.
Yet, the prediction of common ancestry has lead to surprising findings at the molecular level in genetics.
Tom
Nobody knew what to look for when the idea that man and ape had common ancestry entered into scientific thought. Nobody even knew that DNA existed, much less its relationship to genetics.
Yet, the prediction of common ancestry has lead to surprising findings at the molecular level in genetics.
Tom
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and other examples of flying efforts at
http://www.ueet.nasa.gov/StudentSite/historyofflight.html