5 Unlucky Inventors Turned Into A Billion Dollar Billion
- Tim Berners-Lee
Computer engineer Prof. Tim Berners-Lee, in his foresight, launched Word Wide Web, or www, in 1989, so that people who are not in the same place can communicate with each other and share information. The first Internet browser used at the same time was his invention.
His invention reveals how unlucky it is to be able to accumulate only $ 50 million when we think of billionaires on earth. We still owe a thank you for the www.
- Charles Duryea
The first names that come to mind in terms of cars are undoubtedly Karl Benz, Henry Ford and Enzo Ferrari. But Charles Duryea and Frank Duryea brothers invented the first of the petrol cars we use today.
When the year 1896 was shown, the bicycle maker Duryea brothers brought to mind the idea of making a gasoline car and produced the first gasoline car, but things did not go as they thought and they went bankrupt in 1914 due to the low sales of the car they produced.
Despite the fact that this bankruptcy has only been over a short time, the carmaker Henry Ford has been using the same technology to sell 250,000 vehicles and has written his name in history.
- Charles Goodyear
Charles Goodyear has devoted himself to plastic and produced dozens of plastic-related things from the best condoms to rain. But it must have caused the last invention and his name to be written, many of whom are unknown. The tires that were the most important parts of the car we used were invented by Charles Goodyear.
This invention was not enough to save him at that time and he left behind $ 200,000 in debt. This man who invented automobile tire is really a pity.
- John Shepherd-Barron
Now you can go to an ATM and withdraw money whenever you want, but this has not always been the case. John Shepherd-Barron's inventor had to grow up before the bank branches closed, or you would stay the next day.
We have come to make a smart money machine after we missed the bank withdrawal time a few times. The inventor, who exemplifies the working principle of self-freezing machines, shares the idea of this invention with Barclays Bank and invents the first ATM.
At the time it was invented, ATM was the 6-digit citizenship number, but when John Shepherd-Barron's wife began to forget this code, the unlucky inventor also found the 4-digit ATM encryption standard. Despite this incredible beauty that makes people's lives easier, losing their chance to become one of the richest people in the world if they do not get the patent of their invention.
- Edwin Drake
By the 19th century, most of the world's need for liquid fuel was supplied by Whale Oil. At this time, Edwin Drake thought he could sell the whale oil at a much lower price, if he could get it out of the underground and get himself a rock-nosed name and a flammable black dirty liquid.
Edwin Drake, who started to work with this idea, opened the world's first oil well in Pennsylvania. As you have guessed, our flammable black dirty liquid is becoming oil. Even if the man who thinks so much has patented this invention, it is very likely that even now his grandchildren are the richest people in the world. Instead, a patent claim has emerged.
The legends.