Technological inventions have come from books

1. "Headphones»
Ray Bradbury once "invented" the most popular format for today headphones - the so-called "beads". The sensational book "Fahrenheit 451", he wrote: "In her ears tightly inserted miniature" Shells ", tiny, thimble, radio-sleeve, and an electronic ocean of sound - music and voices, music and voice - waves washes the shores of it waking brain. " The novel written in 1950, you know what at the time were the headphones!)





2. "The atomic bomb»
The phrase "atomic bomb" was first used by the writer HG Wells. It appeared in the pages of his works are "The World Set Free." Interestingly, the book was published in 1913. That is, before the start of the First World War. It is known that the bomb itself was used only at the end of World War II already in 1945.

3. "Advertising pun»
In the «Generation P" Victor Pelevin first Russian kvass was opposed to Coke. After breeding two drinks for various "corners of the ring," I was born the brand "Nicole" and the slogan "Kvas - not cola, drink Nicole". Subsequently, this brand of kvass actually went on sale.

4. "BK»
Chuck Palahniuk in his famous "Fight Club" organization of the same name became a place where people through fair fight splashed their emotions. The concept is simple! The idea was so popular that after the release of the film adaptation, in many cities around the world were clandestine (and sometimes not) analogs of the club. Many of them are there to this day.

5. "Methods of investigation»
Arthur Conan Doyle Sherlock Holmes stories have described many of the methods of criminology, which were still unknown to police. Among them collect cigarette butts and cigarette ashes, the identification of typewriters, a magnifying glass Looking at the traces at the scene. Subsequently, the police began to make extensive use of these and other methods of Holmes.

6. "The scheme of money laundering»
In Gogol's "Dead Souls" is given a brilliant criminal scheme. The protagonist of buying something that is not in fact, but that this has on paper. From here starts the modern practice of "left" orders contracting firms, when money is spent for the work that is performed only on the documents.

7. "Superman»
Philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche in his work "Thus Spake Zarathustra" outlined the idea of ​​the "superman." People, according to this theory is not the final achievement of nature, but only a guide to the superior race - a race of supermen. This idea was then actively developed by Adolf Hitler, who argued that such a race is the Aryan.

8. "Submarines»
Jules Verne in his book "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" described a new type of vessels - a submarine. In those days (1869-th year), the idea of ​​"deep ship" only born and "Nautilus" became the epitome of technological progress. His name was the most popular among the submarines. Because of him, Verne became known as "the father of submarines." In honor of the "Nautilus", by the way, is still referred to as electronic appliances, computers, space vehicles, as well as restaurants, hotels, rock groups and sports clubs.

9. "Legal scam»
The utopia Artem Loginov Oleg and Senatorova "Asketskaya Russia" ordinary machines to refill the mobile features original service. After making notes on the screen, you are prompted to play a game of "even-odd". By winning, the deposited amount can be doubled. The defeat led to the loss of funds. Thus, children 'let down' all the pocket money, older people retire. In reality, such an idea is really discussed, but after legal restrictions in the country of gambling rapidly damped.

10. "Chess paradox»
In the novel Strugatsky brothers "Noon, XXII century" system referred to "Kasparov Karpov" - a method that was used for the removal of "copies" of the brain and the construction of its mathematical model. The work was published in 1962 - Anatoly Karpov was then only 11 years old, and Garry Kasparov not yet born.

Source: muz4in.net

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