Polish inventors - what have they ever given to the world?

What haves poles ever given to the world (apart from cheap labour)? British have invented nearly everything important and have tried to educate people around the world.

A few things: oil wells, Esperanto, radiotherapy.


This much is true. Britain has consistently punched above its weight in technology - especially the industrial North of England and Scotland.

Not much compared to other countries like Germany.

bulletproof vest, mine detector, blah, blah, blah. more than you think!

I don't have any inferiority complex because of that.

Recently I've seen somewhere the list of inventions by Poles but I forgot where. As soon as I remember it I'll post it.

There is one Pole in Chicago who has given the world a stage where trolls can congregate.

probably wikipedia, but its blacked out at the moment

How true. And funny too :-)

haha, that one is good! :)

Just in a nutshell I found a site with 8 break-through inventions by Poles:

1. mine detector
2. movie projector (pleograf invented allegedly a year before Lumiere's invention)
3. bulletproof vest
4. walkie-talkie
5. holography (additionally the same guy made a prototype of a tv set called electroscope)
6. Melex
7. delta type wing
8. paraffin lamp (and first raffinery and petroleum mine)

Probably there are many more but I have no time to look for it.

To be honest, is there a Pole who isn't an inventor of sorts. There is an uncanny ability to make a silk purse from a sow's ear that many Poles possess. The work kombinowac (?) comes to mind...

Actually how do you translate it into English?

Poles would get more credit, if what they came up with were legal.

i give them credit for inventing the illegal decoder card for sky tv back in the early 90's. it worked for a few years at least.

I think the direct translation is "to MacGyver".

e.g.: "Janusz really MacGyvered that broken television, the reception is better than ever"


Come, come now. The card isn't illegal per se, only the use of it. :-)

Poles invented word kombinować... it's almost untranslatable!

I believe that the OP was trying to cast aspersions on the intelligence of Poles. Given the similiarity in complexity when comparing the Polish language and lets say for example, Quantuum physics, how could he even dare to suggest that the intelligence of Poles is sub-standard?

Polish mathematicians broke German Enigma code machine before II WW.

P.

you have been on same site as me haha!! pity wikipedia is out of action..we would all know a whole lot more!

no need for wikipedia. it's all been done before on PF. just search the threads.

Have you been to a Polish mechanic?

He does.


Very true.

Was that one mentioned before:
Leopold Płowiecki - the thinnest microcatheters

have only been on here 3 months. just responded to new thread! am hardly going to know its been done before! just googled enigma machine. aws really suprised to find out that was true! fair play to the poles!

No one is picking on you for that :) Wrocław merely pointed out that there was a thread like that before, and I even remember it.

By the way I've just learn that Poles establish one of the notable Swiss watch companies.

These two men were not mentioned here either:

Bruno Abdank-Abakanowicz (1852-1900)
He invented integraph in 1878, a mechanism capable of calculating areas under any curve (integrating) and solving simple differential equations of the form dy/dx=F(x). The integraph was produced by the Swiss company of Corady in Zurich.

He also contributed to the electrification of Lyon and has been known for having "electrified France." He was decorated in 1889 by Légion d'honneur, the highest distinction from the French government.

Zdzisław Pawlak (1926-2006) made multiple contributions to computing but his most known invention is rough set theory (1982), which by now has been used in multiple fields. Rough sets are distinctly different from regular sets and from fuzzy sets.

nice to know that if i ever need to be catheterised, it might not be too uncomfortable..lol!

I think the local anaesthetic gel smeared on catheters was invented by a British doctor who was born in Poland.

The SPAP Association invites you to Faceebok (Album Pozytywny Atlas Polski) to find some interesting polish inventions. Please write in new ones and give votes for other posts. We are going to print a special album containing information from the application that will be hand out to the guests of Euro 2012.

Did Poles invent vodka or was it the Russians?

Poles I think in the 1530 or 40s, 2 centuries before it appeared in Russia.

i know the polish inventor site your reffering to ill have to look to see if i deleted it

there is polish logic which i cant understand

there are maaaaaaany the OP just doesnt really care to know

brb...nope, deleted damnit