war is hell
but these gadgets and gizmos are the
silver lining welcome to watchmojo.com
and today we’re counting down our picks
for the top 10 products invented because
of war let’s go finish in a liquid Peppa
Tiffany for this list we’re looking at
products that were invented perfected or
popularized in their most common form
during wartime because of a conflict
which means we’re excluding any weaponry
or obvious army equipment and just to be
clear we’re not necessarily saying that
these entries were worth the cost that
came with them but we do recognize their
universal value to humanity blue the sky
orange to the thigh simple right but if
someone is having a severe allergic
reaction it could save their life number
10 canned food of course all growing
things are contained within a protective
covering but it occurred to man that if
he could provide a permanent protective
covering for the bounty of nature he
could then readily extend the harvest
season until every day in the year
became a day of Plenty an army may March
on its stomach but with the French
military’s limited food supply they
weren’t marching too far that changed
when the government offered 12,000
francs to anyone who could invent a
cheap efficient way to preserve food
chef Nicola UPOV answered the challenge
with the suggestion of canning this
allowed troops to advance through any
season and let the rest of us eat
delicious ravioli whenever we please
caning has proved to be a dependable and
long-lasting food storage method which
is good as the can opener was not
patented until 1855 to keep his niblets
corn crisper the giant gives you just as
much corn but almost no water then it’s
vacuum pack number nine
disposable sanitary pads experience the
freedom of natural protection security
comfort maxi pads regular or super
absorbency
in 1914 the kimberly clark company
marketed sell you cotton which being
both cheaper and more absorbent than
cotton became the bandage material of
choice during World War one soon after
military nurses struck upon the idea of
using the material to cope with their
own personal monthly battles following
the war’s end Kimberly Clark opted to
formalize the battlefield invention
leading to the introduction of Kotex or
cotton textile in 1920 the same material
also led to the invention of the Kleenex
brand of facial tissues in the early
1920s and paved the way for the first
modern tampons in the 1930s many women
have found that Tampax Tampax
super plus gives us super comfort in a
super plus protection now that’s a real
plus number eight synthetic rubber
the mighty silberregen thought but if it
hadn’t been for what you hold in your
hand we might have lost our national
neck in World War two synthetic rubber
precisely although there had been
numerous prior attempts synthetic rubber
as we know it today
did not come about until World War two
developed by Waldo Simon for the BF
Goodrich tire company the new less
expensive synthetic rubber helped
America’s war effort and they needed it
there she was looking like a donut
for a diet while rubber was high in
demand for almost all war machinery
supplies were limited as rubber
producing territories were largely held
by Axis forces as scientists tinkered
with the chemistry behind the material
they also unintentionally created silly
putty which was not quite as useful if
you pull it so it’ll go forever like
taffy but if you give it a sharp tug
it’ll break like a biscuit now when you
make silly putty round and drop it it
will bounce her gun a rubber ball number
seven super glue as you move up in know
now as the go-to glue with the super
bond it took super glues inventor 9
years to figure that out
first discovered by Harry Coover jr. of
the Eastman Kodak Company the would-be
product was intended for use as a
plastic for gun sights during World War
two when that didn’t work out it was
suggested for use in jet cockpits as a
heat-resistant overlay when that too was
rejected Hoover realized the chemical
stickiness was best utilized as a glue
in 1951 and the product finally hit the
commercial market in 1958 by do almost
anything a plastic novel plastic plug
the rubber Buddha metal broach a fishing
rod a cycle grip model planes and model
trains a doorknob screw a flashlight
case the broken trim on any car and now
Krazy Glue also comes in a no drip no
clog pen number six stainless steel its
greatness lies in glowing furnaces and
smoking stacks in skilled labor
inventive genius and the spirit of
enterprise that is so typical of America
while the actual inventor or nation of
origin of this product is up for debate
the discovery of this alloy was
announced in 1915 and four years later a
patent for the item was granted to
American Elwood Haynes who had applied
for it in 1912 the charge descends
through increasing heat until it about
2,000 degrees the spongy metal absorbs
about three-and-a-half percent of carbon
from the coke that senior English
metallurgist Harry brewer Lee also
developed a stainless steel at the
request of the British military who
wanted a rust-free material for gun
manufacturing seeing as they were on the
same track the two then opted to join
forces and formed the American stainless
steel corporation together in any giant
ladle of molten metal there may be steel
that is destined to defeat time and
distance to provide the framework of
mighty buildings and to enter into the
daily life of every citizen and
thousands of things that provide comfort
and convenience with economy number 5
walkie talkies here’s a space-age gift
for kids from Radio Shack the original
space patrol walkie talkie you get two
for just 1495 a pair and they really
work English born Canadian inventor
Donald Hanks had developed the portable
radio for pilots flying to isolated
areas of the north and filed a patent
for the device shortly before Canada
declared war on Germany in 1939 from his
position ashore Joe flashes word to the
carrier in : each had established
infantry and heavy equipment landed in
Foss hings was then dispatched to Ottawa
to fine tune the instrument according to
military specs and served in that
capacity until 1945 eventually earning
an order of the British Empire and the
order of Canada for his efforts
fellow Canadian Alfred J gross also
developed two-way radios
based on hangs work leading to the CB
radio the pager and the garage door
opener not volt batteries not included
number four the microwave oven this year
is its 65th birthday and over 90 percent
of homes in America have at least one
I’m talking about the microwave oven a
major time saver in many American
kitchens first developed and marketed as
the radar range by American Percy
Spencer in 1946 the cooking power of the
microwave had been discovered by Spencer
late in the war working as a radar
engineer for the US Department of
Defense the inventor made the discovery
accidentally when he noticed his
equipment had melted a chocolate bar but
now there’s Wars incredible microwave
oven it’ll defrost simmer bake after
confirming his theory by making popcorn
and cooking an egg Spencer set out to
create what we now know as the microwave
oven by harnessing the cooking power of
the magnetron and began selling the
device commercially in 1947 it’s so
amazing I almost feel the urge to cook
I’m sure to pass number three gPS the
Solar blades snap into place to form an
X with the satellite body in the center
while the device we blindly follow to
our destinations came years later the
actual technology behind GPS has been
used for military purposes for decades
the concept of a global positioning
system called Navstar
was advanced by the DoD in 1973 as
earlier methods were vulnerable to
attack the NAB star Global Positioning
System is a space-based network of
satellites transmitting precise Jam
resistant radio navigational signals by
the late 80s US President Ronald Reagan
ordered the tech available to citizens
and today GPS is a standard feature of
most smart phones GPS systems have
played a key role since the first Gulf
War which was the first conflict where
the tech was widely implemented they’ll
never have the freedom that we did but
they can certainly have more freedom so
that you feel like you know exactly
where they are
number two the internet they’re sharing
scientific data
arguing philosophy or passing on cooking
tips and gossip night and day through
a computer network called Internet nope
it wasn’t Al Gore in one form or another
the Internet has been in use since the
1960s and is sometimes called a child of
the Cold War developed by the Defense
Advanced Research Projects Agency or
DARPA to connect distant governmental
computer systems the basic technology
was eventually shared with American
colleges and we have been needing for a
long time some better way to distribute
information than to carry it about the
digital domain then expanded in the
early 1980s although it was largely
limited to commercial and academic
circles there’s a interesting kind of
restraint that you find I mean there’s
not a lot of cursing or swearing there’s
not a lot of personal cuts there’s not a
lot of put downs that one would expect
to find there’s not you know there’s not
screen fulls of you know go to hell the
Internet as we know it finally exploded
into everyday life in 1995 when it was
commercialized in the US and without
this innovation you wouldn’t be watching
this video it’s tapped a yearning to
connect to talk with the world about art
music sex guitar construction
conservative politics grief before we
unveil our top pick here are a few
honorable mentions a safety razor is a
shaving device that houses a razor blade
in such a way that it greatly reduces
the likelihood of irritation or Nicks to
the skin
what can a picture be well it can be
whatever you want it to be it can be on
paper or not
number one penicillin into the bottles
they pour the liquid medium in which
will grow the mold that produces
penicillin Canada triples its output of
the magic drug that affects almost
miraculous cures although the effect of
certain molds on bacteria had previously
been observed it wasn’t until Scottish
scientist Alexander Fleming accidentally
and serendipitously discovered that
Penicillium fungus had antibacterial
properties that the benefits were fully
understood the term antibiotic came
about in 1942 and penicillin was
promptly categorized in this group as a
cured pneumonia meningitis scarlet fever
gonorrhea and much more today this group
of drugs treats many bacterial
infections that were once considered
fatal and when it was put to use during
World War two it cut the number of
deaths from infection by twelve to
fifteen percent from World War one mass
production but all will be needed for
soldiers in war then from the bottle
streams liquid charged with penicillin
the killer of germs this turned into
powder
penicillin ready to be used
do you agree with our list what’s your
favorite wartime invention for more
ingenious top 10s published every day be
sure to subscribe to watchmojo.com
niblets brand corn is the Giants own
special kind grown to be sweeter for the
crispest freshest tasting corn try Green
Giant niblets corn
but these gadgets and gizmos are the
silver lining welcome to watchmojo.com
and today we’re counting down our picks
for the top 10 products invented because
of war let’s go finish in a liquid Peppa
Tiffany for this list we’re looking at
products that were invented perfected or
popularized in their most common form
during wartime because of a conflict
which means we’re excluding any weaponry
or obvious army equipment and just to be
clear we’re not necessarily saying that
these entries were worth the cost that
came with them but we do recognize their
universal value to humanity blue the sky
orange to the thigh simple right but if
someone is having a severe allergic
reaction it could save their life number
10 canned food of course all growing
things are contained within a protective
covering but it occurred to man that if
he could provide a permanent protective
covering for the bounty of nature he
could then readily extend the harvest
season until every day in the year
became a day of Plenty an army may March
on its stomach but with the French
military’s limited food supply they
weren’t marching too far that changed
when the government offered 12,000
francs to anyone who could invent a
cheap efficient way to preserve food
chef Nicola UPOV answered the challenge
with the suggestion of canning this
allowed troops to advance through any
season and let the rest of us eat
delicious ravioli whenever we please
caning has proved to be a dependable and
long-lasting food storage method which
is good as the can opener was not
patented until 1855 to keep his niblets
corn crisper the giant gives you just as
much corn but almost no water then it’s
vacuum pack number nine
disposable sanitary pads experience the
freedom of natural protection security
comfort maxi pads regular or super
absorbency
in 1914 the kimberly clark company
marketed sell you cotton which being
both cheaper and more absorbent than
cotton became the bandage material of
choice during World War one soon after
military nurses struck upon the idea of
using the material to cope with their
own personal monthly battles following
the war’s end Kimberly Clark opted to
formalize the battlefield invention
leading to the introduction of Kotex or
cotton textile in 1920 the same material
also led to the invention of the Kleenex
brand of facial tissues in the early
1920s and paved the way for the first
modern tampons in the 1930s many women
have found that Tampax Tampax
super plus gives us super comfort in a
super plus protection now that’s a real
plus number eight synthetic rubber
the mighty silberregen thought but if it
hadn’t been for what you hold in your
hand we might have lost our national
neck in World War two synthetic rubber
precisely although there had been
numerous prior attempts synthetic rubber
as we know it today
did not come about until World War two
developed by Waldo Simon for the BF
Goodrich tire company the new less
expensive synthetic rubber helped
America’s war effort and they needed it
there she was looking like a donut
for a diet while rubber was high in
demand for almost all war machinery
supplies were limited as rubber
producing territories were largely held
by Axis forces as scientists tinkered
with the chemistry behind the material
they also unintentionally created silly
putty which was not quite as useful if
you pull it so it’ll go forever like
taffy but if you give it a sharp tug
it’ll break like a biscuit now when you
make silly putty round and drop it it
will bounce her gun a rubber ball number
seven super glue as you move up in know
now as the go-to glue with the super
bond it took super glues inventor 9
years to figure that out
first discovered by Harry Coover jr. of
the Eastman Kodak Company the would-be
product was intended for use as a
plastic for gun sights during World War
two when that didn’t work out it was
suggested for use in jet cockpits as a
heat-resistant overlay when that too was
rejected Hoover realized the chemical
stickiness was best utilized as a glue
in 1951 and the product finally hit the
commercial market in 1958 by do almost
anything a plastic novel plastic plug
the rubber Buddha metal broach a fishing
rod a cycle grip model planes and model
trains a doorknob screw a flashlight
case the broken trim on any car and now
Krazy Glue also comes in a no drip no
clog pen number six stainless steel its
greatness lies in glowing furnaces and
smoking stacks in skilled labor
inventive genius and the spirit of
enterprise that is so typical of America
while the actual inventor or nation of
origin of this product is up for debate
the discovery of this alloy was
announced in 1915 and four years later a
patent for the item was granted to
American Elwood Haynes who had applied
for it in 1912 the charge descends
through increasing heat until it about
2,000 degrees the spongy metal absorbs
about three-and-a-half percent of carbon
from the coke that senior English
metallurgist Harry brewer Lee also
developed a stainless steel at the
request of the British military who
wanted a rust-free material for gun
manufacturing seeing as they were on the
same track the two then opted to join
forces and formed the American stainless
steel corporation together in any giant
ladle of molten metal there may be steel
that is destined to defeat time and
distance to provide the framework of
mighty buildings and to enter into the
daily life of every citizen and
thousands of things that provide comfort
and convenience with economy number 5
walkie talkies here’s a space-age gift
for kids from Radio Shack the original
space patrol walkie talkie you get two
for just 1495 a pair and they really
work English born Canadian inventor
Donald Hanks had developed the portable
radio for pilots flying to isolated
areas of the north and filed a patent
for the device shortly before Canada
declared war on Germany in 1939 from his
position ashore Joe flashes word to the
carrier in : each had established
infantry and heavy equipment landed in
Foss hings was then dispatched to Ottawa
to fine tune the instrument according to
military specs and served in that
capacity until 1945 eventually earning
an order of the British Empire and the
order of Canada for his efforts
fellow Canadian Alfred J gross also
developed two-way radios
based on hangs work leading to the CB
radio the pager and the garage door
opener not volt batteries not included
number four the microwave oven this year
is its 65th birthday and over 90 percent
of homes in America have at least one
I’m talking about the microwave oven a
major time saver in many American
kitchens first developed and marketed as
the radar range by American Percy
Spencer in 1946 the cooking power of the
microwave had been discovered by Spencer
late in the war working as a radar
engineer for the US Department of
Defense the inventor made the discovery
accidentally when he noticed his
equipment had melted a chocolate bar but
now there’s Wars incredible microwave
oven it’ll defrost simmer bake after
confirming his theory by making popcorn
and cooking an egg Spencer set out to
create what we now know as the microwave
oven by harnessing the cooking power of
the magnetron and began selling the
device commercially in 1947 it’s so
amazing I almost feel the urge to cook
I’m sure to pass number three gPS the
Solar blades snap into place to form an
X with the satellite body in the center
while the device we blindly follow to
our destinations came years later the
actual technology behind GPS has been
used for military purposes for decades
the concept of a global positioning
system called Navstar
was advanced by the DoD in 1973 as
earlier methods were vulnerable to
attack the NAB star Global Positioning
System is a space-based network of
satellites transmitting precise Jam
resistant radio navigational signals by
the late 80s US President Ronald Reagan
ordered the tech available to citizens
and today GPS is a standard feature of
most smart phones GPS systems have
played a key role since the first Gulf
War which was the first conflict where
the tech was widely implemented they’ll
never have the freedom that we did but
they can certainly have more freedom so
that you feel like you know exactly
where they are
number two the internet they’re sharing
scientific data
arguing philosophy or passing on cooking
tips and gossip night and day through
a computer network called Internet nope
it wasn’t Al Gore in one form or another
the Internet has been in use since the
1960s and is sometimes called a child of
the Cold War developed by the Defense
Advanced Research Projects Agency or
DARPA to connect distant governmental
computer systems the basic technology
was eventually shared with American
colleges and we have been needing for a
long time some better way to distribute
information than to carry it about the
digital domain then expanded in the
early 1980s although it was largely
limited to commercial and academic
circles there’s a interesting kind of
restraint that you find I mean there’s
not a lot of cursing or swearing there’s
not a lot of personal cuts there’s not a
lot of put downs that one would expect
to find there’s not you know there’s not
screen fulls of you know go to hell the
Internet as we know it finally exploded
into everyday life in 1995 when it was
commercialized in the US and without
this innovation you wouldn’t be watching
this video it’s tapped a yearning to
connect to talk with the world about art
music sex guitar construction
conservative politics grief before we
unveil our top pick here are a few
honorable mentions a safety razor is a
shaving device that houses a razor blade
in such a way that it greatly reduces
the likelihood of irritation or Nicks to
the skin
what can a picture be well it can be
whatever you want it to be it can be on
paper or not
number one penicillin into the bottles
they pour the liquid medium in which
will grow the mold that produces
penicillin Canada triples its output of
the magic drug that affects almost
miraculous cures although the effect of
certain molds on bacteria had previously
been observed it wasn’t until Scottish
scientist Alexander Fleming accidentally
and serendipitously discovered that
Penicillium fungus had antibacterial
properties that the benefits were fully
understood the term antibiotic came
about in 1942 and penicillin was
promptly categorized in this group as a
cured pneumonia meningitis scarlet fever
gonorrhea and much more today this group
of drugs treats many bacterial
infections that were once considered
fatal and when it was put to use during
World War two it cut the number of
deaths from infection by twelve to
fifteen percent from World War one mass
production but all will be needed for
soldiers in war then from the bottle
streams liquid charged with penicillin
the killer of germs this turned into
powder
penicillin ready to be used
do you agree with our list what’s your
favorite wartime invention for more
ingenious top 10s published every day be
sure to subscribe to watchmojo.com
niblets brand corn is the Giants own
special kind grown to be sweeter for the
crispest freshest tasting corn try Green
Giant niblets corn
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