New York - There are so many great inventions in the modern era that affect the lives of billions of people in the world. However, few of them are the work of youth.
Reported by CNN on Thursday (15/3/2018), the youth participation rate in the activity of new discovery shows significant growth.
According to a summary of historical data of the findings conducted by the National Geographic Society, the youth participation rate in the 21st Century is 28 percent, an 11 percent increase from the 20th Century of just 17 percent.
Need to be underlined, the age range of the youth in question is the range of ages 17 to 25 years. There is also to the field of invention can come from many things, ranging from culture to technology.
Here are six young men who managed to create the most influential invention in the world.
1.Mark Zuckerberg – Facebook
Admittedly, Facebook is the most influential social media network today, and even able to trigger a variety of historic events in the early 21st century.
As already widely known, Mark Zuckerberg is the creator of Facebook. He launched this social networking site for the first time on February 4, 2004, when he was 20 years old.
Now, Facebook transformed into 'king' in social networking with the number of active users reached 2.07 billion per month,
It also makes Facebook as one of the best promotional tools for various things, ranging from commercial to political.
2.Samuel Colt - Firearms
In 1830, a 16-year-old boy, Samuel Colt, found a mechanical system capable of launching wooden bullets using a cannon-like instrument.
Having pointed that out to his father, he was guided to further develop it into a concept of weapon, now widely known as a fire weapon.
At the beginning of its creation, Colt deliberately made a firearm to facilitate the hunting of animals that he often did with his father.
Colt registered patents on his findings in 1836, and for the rest of his life managed to create 16 models of weapons produced totaling nearly 450,000 units.
3.Blaise Pascal - Calculator
He is a mathematician, physicist, and philosopher who is instrumental in finding a mechanical calculator, which became the forerunner of modern calculators today.
Pascal began his experiments in 1642, when he was 18 years old. He was inspired to create a mechanical calculator because he wanted to help his father who was overwhelmed in tax administration.
He also used the principle of rotation motion on the watch machine to arrange the system of counting automatically.
4.William Henry Perkin - Synthetic Dyes
At the age of 18, ie in 1856 ago, Perkin was preoccupied with the practice of making quinine - a basic ingredient of malaria medicine - by his chemistry lecturer.
However, accidentally when cleaning the chemical liquid spilled associated with cloth wipes, he actually found the appearance of the color purple, a precious color very expensive at the time.
Instead of completing his job, Perkin instead developed his unconventional discovery into the forerunner of synthetic dyes.
5.Louis Braille - Braille Letter
At the age of 10, Braille received a scholarship to study at the Royal Institution for Blind Youth in Paris, a special educational institution for blind children. There, he learned to read the letters printed on the paper by touching them.
It takes a few seconds to identify one word and when it comes to the end of a sentence, it often forgets what it has read at the beginning of the sentence.
Louis believes there must be an easier way so that the blind can read as quickly and easily as anyone can see.
In three years, at the age of 15, he finally managed to build an ideal system now called braille, using a 6 point cell and based on a normal spelling.
6.Boyan Slat - The Ocean Cleanup
A study published in the journal Science in 2015 showed 275 million tons of plastic waste produced by 192 coastal states each year.
Therefore, a series of 100-kilometer barrier titled The Ocean Cleanup seems to be used as a solution to millions of floating plastics.
The property designed by Boyan Slat, the 20-year-old inventor, aims to rid the oceans of plastic waste.
Slat proposes a solution that involves 100 kilometers of static moving floating filters. This filter acts as a barrier to collecting plastic waste.
When plastic is captured in the composition of The Ocean Cleanup, water movement will push it naturally to the control center. Where the waste debris will be extracted and sorted.
