Mavic are hardly a major player in electronic shifting though are they?

Oh – another one – Levis

Dunlop.

I said that in the first post 🙂

Good place to start searching — http://www.greatachievements.org/

— oh – oops 🙂

Mavic are hardly a major player in electronic shifting though are they?

nope, but they would be a valid entry for aluminium rims.

Lockheed Martin must have a few

kcal – Member
Good place to start searching — http://www.greatachievements.org/

I’m probably a nerd but I think it’s always more fun to try and do it without the Internet…

duPont?

Switzerland – The Cuckoo Clock

[video]https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=A8xL0FE0Dpk[/video]

hm, I wondered about Xerox but they bought the rights – not invenmted in house – and – I assume they still produce equipment but it’s an assumption..

They invented the GUI we know today, windows and pointing device and all that jazz.

Intel is a good one – first microprocessor (the 4004).

Invented the WIMP (and a lot else besides) I accept for PARC – did they get a stake in Apple or something so I suppose they have benefited, but indirectly.

La Spirotechnique, now aqua – lung was sort of started by cousteau and gagnan who developed the modern scuba diving regulator.

Dia Compe/Cane Creek didn’t invent the aheadset…some dude did and showed it off and a build-your-bike show thing where it was spotted and bought…then mass produced…

Doesn’t matter if they aren’t players in electronic shifting…they invented it and Mavic are still a big player in components/accessories…

McDonalds – fast food

I’m pretty sure that they were the first to have a restaurant where all the food

a) needed no table service
b) didn’t need any plates or cutlery
c) could be prepared quickly as the orders came in

Apple – smartphone

Shermer not even close.

http://www.classiclightweights.co.uk/components/cinelli-pedals-components.html

Shermer not even close.

must be in jest ….

How about Kellogs ( fortified cereal based breakfast) ?

Slightly specialist, and I don’t like giving them publicity, but Xaar invented a method of making ink jet print heads, and still sell (and license) 1000’s.

Ford?

Every modern factory ever.

Ford don’t produce factories though. The factory is not a product they still continue to sell successfully in a competitive market.

Kelloggs is a good one though.

iPhone was an evolution of something that’d been sold for years previously. As was the iPod. It was a big step forward, but you cannot claim Apple invented the Smartphone. Or the personal computer, or the MP3 player.

Apple – smartphone

they might well have a claim to being inventors of the PDA with the Newton. I can’t offhand think of an earlier incarnation, that was back in the late 80s IIC.

Arguably also, the modern tablet with the iPad. They certainly popularised it if not invented it.

Ferodo – brake linings (Now Federal Mogul) still based in Chapel En Le Frith

Siemens. Though what they orginally invented is now obsolete they are still a major player.

Mackem – Member
Threadless headset (Aheadset) – Cane Creek.

Oooohh, all of a sudden you’re an expert now? 😆

Wacker – the vibrating footplate compactor

Doesn’t matter if they aren’t players in electronic shifting…they invented it and Mavic are still a big player in components/accessories…

Mavic (1992) never invented it, Suntour got there 2 years before (1990) with the BEAST (Browning Electronic AccuShift Transmission) electric shifting

Fender?

Marshall stack?

Didn’t Massey Ferguson invent (or at least highly commercialise) the agricultural tractor?

Ford don’t produce factories though. The factory is not a product they still continue to sell successfully in a competitive market.

yes, but his cars were, and they were the first things to be built like that, and it made Henry and Ford into major players that forced every other car manufacturer to catch up and most (in that era) didn’t. It’s still how every car is built today, and essentially IS the modern car.

John Deere – the plough that turned the Great Plains from grassland to farmland.

everyone – Member
Didn’t Massey Ferguson invent (or at least highly commercialise) the agricultural tractor?

3 point linkage that stopped tractors tipping backwards and squishing the driver. But they’re hardly big players now?

It is often difficult to attribute inventions to the people we assume. Often someone else invented an item but was made viable by someone else. Although he did not invent it, Samuel Colt effectively made the revolver practical.

There must be a few cases in the world of firearms.

According to wiki:

Today the company exists as a brand name used by AGCO and remains a major seller around the world.

So enough brand recognition and loyalty to still be used as a brand name (much like Perkins etc.)

And dunlop

As already stated. Rockshox. I remember riding a bike equipped with the first RS forks imported into the UK – they were fairly crap – and they are still innovating pretty well.

Moog electrohydraulic servovalves.

Kalashnikov. 😕

Sikorsky – the Helicopter.

Sikorsky – the Helicopter.

from wiki…

(though Sikorsky did not invent the helicopter itself)