Theos-Talk Archives (October 2004 Message tt00197)

Oct 7 2004,

RE Inventions


Thanks John.

Yes it is interesting to visit.

In the THEOSOPHICAL literature it speaks of the mind, needing a concept or a
procedure, sends out "a finger of thought" and, if powerful enough, it
impinges on an answer in the universal astral light (the record of all
events and things) and can bring it back. I wonder. It must have something
to do with the character and predisposition of the person, as well as Karma
in general. In the case of Edison so many inventions and developments have
come from his work.

I have also puzzled over what HPB meant when in the SECRET DOCTRINE she
wrote that 1897/8 would see a vast rent made in the curtain of materialism
and there would be a change in the outlook of purely material science.

I found that in 1897/8 

Roentgen discovered rays that passed through flesh...he called them X-Rays.
Two months later Henri Becquerel accidentally found that a piece of uranium
ore emitted something that fogged photographic plates. And the electron,
the carrier of electricity, was discovered in 1897. Within 5 years, and
certainly within the next 100 -- to 1997 -- a vast change has occurred.
What are some of the high-lights of development after 1897? Airplanes,
inter-planetary travel, transistors, quantum mechanics, indeterminacy, TV,
Internet, A and H bombs, antibiotics, electron microscopes would enable a
view of the molecule and of some atoms, cell-phones offering world
communication, a 19th century, end of era scientist would have declared
anyone mad who predicted the above mentioned novelties that now rule our
word and weld it more and more into one. 

I also recall that Edison is reported to have made it a practice to go to
sleep sitting in a chair with a spoon held between his thumb and index
finger, when he went to sleep the clatter of its fall awakened him, and he
said he had often has some of his illuminating insights at that time? One
wonders ?

Thanks a lot.


Dallas

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Here is a partial list of such discoveries / inventions


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INVENTIONS AND DISCOVERIES


A Brief survey of Ancient and Modern Events, History & Science

1	ANCIENT B C 

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DATE	INDIVIDUAL DISCOVERY or INVENTION	



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A D on

	
1,400 to 1,500 AD	


Renaissance in Europe sparked by discovery 
of ancient texts preserved by Arab scholars
through Europe's Dark Ages.


1,500 to 1,600 AD	


1,543	Visalius	First accurate HUMAN ANATOMY
published	

Copernicus Theorizes Earth and Planets revolve
around the Sun

1,572	Tycho Brahe observes a SUPER-NOVA -- Celestial 
bodies are not unchanging


1,600 to 1,700 AD


1,609	Galileo observes Sun spots, ,Moon's craters, Earth's
movement
observes Jupiter's satellites

1,609	Kepler sets out laws of planetary motion

1,614	Napier invents Logarithms (speeds up computing)

1,628	Harvey describes blood circulation

1,674	Leeuwenhoek compound microscope -- sees 
micro-organisms

1,687	Newton gravity and motion combine Earth and
celestial bodies into dynamic relations
calculus


1,700 to 1,800 AD


1,704	Newton - Theory of optics expose

1,735	Linnaeus Systema Naturae - classification and 
naming organisms

1,752	Franklin	Electricity in Lightning demonstrated

1,774	Priestley	Oxygen discovered Named in 1779 by 
					
1779	Lavoisier	Named OXYGEN, quantitative chemistry

1,781	Herschel	Uranus discovered

1,795	Hutton Theory of the Earth - Geology begins

1,795	Jenner	Vaccination vs. smallpox


1,800 to 1,900 AD


1,800	Volta	Electric Battery

1,808	Dalton	Atomic Theory of matter

1,818	Berzelius	Atomic Weights table published

1,820	Orsted	Magnetism and Electricity connected

1,831	Faraday	Electric induction demonstrated

1,857	Pasteur	Fermentation caused by microorganisms
leads to Pasteurization

1,859	Spectroscopy suggests stars have 
chemical composition similar to
Earth

1,859	Darwin	The Origin of Species

1,865	Mendel	Genetic laws of Heredity (not included in
evolution theory till 1,900)

1,884	Maxwell	Electromagnetic equations developed

1,871	Mendeleyev Periodical Table of Elements

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Date	DISCOVERY / INVENTION	NAME

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1,877	Isis Unveiled	H.P.Blavatsky

Telephone	Bell

Electric Lamp	.	.	.	Edison

Phonograph	.	.	.	Edison

D C Current Generation & Motors	Edison

1,877	A C Power Transmission	.	Tesla

A C Motor Development	.	Steinmetz & Tesla

ISIS UNVEILED	Blavatsky

1,883	Rayon

1,884	Manganese Steel

Fountain Pen

Trolley, Tram

Steam Turbine

Dirigible	.	.	.	Renard & Krebs

1,885	A.C. Transformer	Tesla

Linotype	Mergenthaler

1,887	Radio Waves	.	.	.	Hertz

Monotype	Lanston

1,888	2 Tube Pneumatic Tires	Goodyear

Adding Machine	Burroughs

Daimler Automobile	Daimler

Transparent Photographic Film	Eastman

Induction Motor A.C.	Tesla

1,888	THE SECRET DOCTRINE	H.P.Blavatsky

1,889	Cordite Explosive	Abel & Dewar

1,890	Spectro-Heliograph	Hale & Deslandres

1,891	Indurite Explosive	Monroe

1,893	Motion Picture: Kinetoscope	Edison

Parliament of Religions, Chicago	T S Convention
Judge

1,894	Submarine - Argonaut	Holland & Lake

Dry Air Blast Furnace

Socialism/Communism Theory	Marx / Engels		

1,895	Motion Picture Projector

X-RAYS	.	.	.	Roentgen	
		
Wireless	.	.	.	Marconi	

Psychology of Personality	Freud, Brewer

Animal Reflexes	.	.	Pavlov

1,896	Disc Plow	Deere (?)

Electro-Therapy	.	.	Finsen

Radioactivity	.	.	.	Bequerel

1,897	Atom is not Solid	.	.	Thompson,
Rutherford

Cathode Rays	.	.	.	Thompson

1,898	Radium .	.	.	Curies

1,899	Wireless in general use

Hague - 1st Moral Conference

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1,900 to Present

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1,900	Quantum Theory	.	.	Planck & Einstein

Mutation in Plants	.	.	Van-Vries

Cosmic Rays	.	.	.	Eitel

1st Airplane Flight	.	.	Wright brothers

Diesel Motor	.	.	.	Diesel

Vacuum Tube for Radio .	De Forest

1,901	High Speed Steel

1,902	Photograph Transmitted by Wire

1,903	Beta Rays	.	.	.	Rutherford

1,905	Relativity Theory	.	.	Einstein

Quantum Theory.	.	.	Planck

1,909	Synthetic Resin, Backelite

Electron charge Measured	.	Millikan

1,912	Continental Drift & Plate Tectonics (1960s)

1,913	Fixation of Nitrogen .	.	Haber

Electron Movement Theory	Bohr

1,917	Communism - Bolshevism (Russia)	Lenin, Trotsky

to 1,920 Microworld and Quantum Mechanics adopted

1,918	Sun a marginal star in Milky Way Galaxy	Shapley

1,919	Theory of Relativity	Einstein


1,922-5 Dinosaur Eggs first discovered

Tut-Ank-Hamen's Tomb discovered	C

1,923	Theories of acids/bases developed

Tooth decaying germs identified

Vitamin E identified [ 4th vitamin ]

1,923-7 Quantum Mechanics	.	.	Heisenberg

1,924	Recognition of Stars Beyond our Galaxy

1,925	Behaviorism Founded			

Taung Skull unearthed

1,926	Liquid Propellant first used in Rockets

Urease, the first Enzyme isolated

Wave Mechanics introduced .	Schrodinger

X-Ray Mutations in Fruit Flies

1,927	Uncertainty Principle	.	.	Heisenberg

1,928	Penicillin Discovered	.	.	Fleming

Electron Theory	.	.	Dirac

1,929	Reversals of Earth's Magnetic Fields Discovered 

Uniformly Expanding Universe Theory Hubble 

Hydrogen in Deep space-fuel of Stars Russell

1,930	Anti-Particles proposed

Superfluid Liquid Helium discovered

1,930	Freon & Polyvinyl Chloride Invented

Pluto Discovered

1,931	Incompleteness of Arithmetic	.	Godel

1,932-3 Neutron discovered, Electron Research Schrodinger

1,932	Radio emissions detected from deep space	Jansky	

1,934	Mitochondria isolated

Hormones found to regulate Insect metamorphosis

1,935	Earthquake Strength Scale developed	Richter

Nylon invented

1,936	Radiometric Dating invented

1,937	Computation using a revolving machine

1,938	Theory of Ice Ages advance/recession
due to Earth's Rotation / Wobble

1,939	DDT discovered

Theory of Star Combustion advanced

1,940	Lascaux Cave discovered - Stone-Age Paintings

1,942	Sustained Nuclear Chain Reaction

1,945	Digital computer

1,944	Genes discovered to be made of DNA Watson & Crick
(1956)

1,946	Carbon-14 Dating developed

1,949	X-Ray Astronomy began

1,949	Transistors

1,951	Commercial Computer built

Genes transfer in Chromosomes Maize

1,952	Calves from Frozen Serum

1,953	Piltdown Skull exposed as fraud

Polio Vaccine Successfully developed	Salk

Double Helix structure of DNA discovered

REM (rapid eye movement) discovered / dreams

1,955	Artificial Diamonds synthesized

1,956	Atlantic/Pacific mid-Oceanic Ridge 
recognized - Global ?

1,957	Sputnik space vehicle launched

1,958	Porpoises found to use echo-location

1,959	Microchip invented

Bacterial Drug Resistance mechanism discovered

Theory of Innate Grammar Capacity advanced

1,960	Gas discharge Laser

1.960 / 8 Plate Tectonics adopted 

1,960	Chimpanzee Observation commenced	Goodall

Seafloor spreading hypothesis developed

Laser demonstrated

1,962	Noble Gases yield compounds

Silent Spring published .	.	Carson
	
Brain Hemisphere Differences explored

1,963	Quasar discovered

1,964	Animal Altruism explained Genetically

High-Yield Rice developed - Green Revolution

Fossils of 1.8 million year old Homo-Habilis	Leaky

Sub-atomic Quarks theory introduced

1,965	Cosmic Microwave Background discovered

1,967	Human Heart transplanted

Pulsars discovered

1,968	Genetic Code explained

1,969	Gene cloned

1,969	reach Moon	Armstrong &
Aldrin

1,972	Possible "Black Hole" discovered

"Punctuated Equilibrium" Theory developed

1,973	Nuclear Magnetic Resonance [ MRI ] developed

1,974	Quark Theory proved by Experiments

Chloroflurocarbons recognized as Threat to Ozone layer

1,975	Socio-biology Launched

1,976	Cancer causing Gene Identified

1,977	Voyager I sent out - Photos of Planets

1,977	Hydrothermal Vent colonies discovered on Ocean floor

1,978	4 million old Fossil of Lucy discovered
Leaky

First "Test-Tube Baby" born

1,979	Voyager 1 discovers Volcanic activity on Io
( Moon of Jupiter )

1,980	Gene added to mouse experimentally

Theory of Meteor Impact and Dinosaur wipe-out Alvarez

1,981	AIDS first recognized [ Africa ? ]

1,983-4 HIV isolated

1,985	Buckyball (60 C atoms) discovered	B.
Fuller

Antarctic Ozone Hole discovered

1,986	"High-temperature" Super-conductivity discovered

"Acid Rain" proved to damage US Lakes, Forests, Life

1,987	Manic Depression - molecular genetic studies

1,989	Great Walls of Galaxies discovered - "Bubbles"

1,990	Voyager II sent out

1,990	Hubble Telescope into space -- Photos

1,990	"Big Bang" hypothesis

Gene therapy used on humans

1,992	Extra Solar System planets detected
	
Dioxin recognized as a hormone mimicking pollutant
	
Imprint of a Primordial Cosmic Fluctuation noted

1,993-4 Fermat's last Theorem proved

1,994	Mutant Gene detected in Breast Cancer

Genetic Engineering experiments

1,996	Martian Meteorite shows traces of primitive bacteria

Sequencing of Wheat Genome completed

1,997	Cloned Sheep born

2,000	Human Genome Project Catalogue of our Genes


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B C
1,000,000 - 500,000 B C



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-----Original Message-----
From: samblo@c... [mailto:samblo@c...] 
Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 2004 3:56 PM
To: theos-talk@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: Theos-World RE: [bn-study] Why is Theosophy better than
religions or other...


Dallas, 
Thanks for your post. BTW, today I read a website that is one of those 
unusual but, most interesting creative individual sites that pop up from
time to 
time. Knowing your interest in this area I take this opportunity to post it
to 
you. This man was a carpenter for 35 years and he has a new original theory 
of just exactly how they managed to build the Pyramids and other Megalithic 
Monuments. On the 10 pages he gives the Theory and Principle he has
discovered 
and as well places color Photographs showing how he performs it all. He
seems to 
have out classed the Japanese and others who have attempted to do the same 
using more widely accepted formula that did not work. 

The Forgotten Technology
http://www.theforgottentechnology.com/Page1.htm

Hope you and others enjoy,
John
 


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