The beautiful country of Sweden is home to many incredible places and amazing people many important and world-changing
Inventions have also come from Sweden and from people of Swedish descent
So in this episode I'm exploring 10 amazing inventions and discoveries that you probably didn't know came out of Sweden
Hey everyone. My name is Leroy Kenton and thanks for joining me here on another episode of FTD facts
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And yeah, we're jumping into Sweden again
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So let's start off with the first
invention in the year 1958 Rooney Alquist developed a battery run artificial
Pacemaker now. This was used for the very first pacemaker
Operation done by the surgeon named Aki sinning and the operation was done at the Karolinska University
Hospital in Stockholm Sweden. So yeah pacemakers I had no idea were invented by Swedes
so if you're not familiar how
Pacemakers work they go under the heart of the person that you operated on and it sends electric pulses to the hearts of the muscles
Can expand and contract so it can regulate your heartbeat?
when the sinoatrial node fails to function correctly an
Artificial pacemaker can be fitted to help regulate the heartbeat with small evenly timed electric shocks
this involves implanting electrodes into one or more of the heart's chambers and
implanting a device called the generator
Just under the skin
For more severe heart conditions an implantable defibrillator or ICD can be used
Which is also capable of sensing a stopped heart and delivering an electric shock powerful enough to restart it
So this thing the Celsius thermometer came out of Sweden
It was developed by the Swedish mathematician and astronomer by the name of Anders Celsius
Clearly you see where the name came from Anders Celsius made massive contributions in the field of astronomy
And this new thermometer that he invented that measured a hundred degrees between freezing and boiling
This was really his claim to fame and the majority of countries in the world use Celsius
Thermometers so it's a very common measurement system now without that would probably be stuck with just trying to calculate
Temperature in Fahrenheit and I don't know like I'm not the greatest at math
But just trying to figure out how to calculate in Fahrenheit hurts my brain. So thank you brother Celsius next up
We have the three-point seat belt
This seat belt formation is pretty much standard in all vehicles now and it was developed by Niels Bowlin who is a Swedish
Inventor as well as a safety engineer and this is back in 1959 when he created this for the automobile company
Volvo and the reason why these seat belts are shaped like a Y is because if you get into an accident
It really disperses energy across your body. So it's not just like oh
Maybe get ripped in half or something
But this kind of really holds you in place so that you're not ripped in half when you crash
I know it's a pretty graphic example, but let's just say that these seatbelts save a lot of lives
statistically one life every six minutes to be exact
If you look at that three-point safety belts go compared to the 3-point safety belt today. It's a huge difference
The basic principles are still there. You can put it on using one hand. It has a good geometry
It's holding the upper body the lower body, but whatever
We will do will still have those
basic principles that were established by Miss Bellini
Over a hundred years ago coca-cola introduced this unique bottle to the rest of the world
Now you show this sort of bottle to somebody and right away Lee recognized
Oh, that's the coke bottle but few people know that this design was created by the Swedish man the name of Alexander
Samuelsson she was told to create a bottle that people could recognize in the dark just by touching it off rose lying on the ground
Broken or whatever people could still recognize it and Alexander Samuelson more than delivered on this one
You see the gun gives Sweden has a lot of surprises like even things
Surprising to the people that were born and raised there and just so you know
If you do want to expand your knowledge about this amazing country
We do have a playlist about the videos that we've done about Sweden we go
Into the culture we go into the history. We talk with military, etc. Etc, etc
I'll link to it in the card section of this episode as well as below in the video description
I'll also have it at the end screen of this video and we recently did a video about the differences between Sweden and Norway
That's interesting fun. When I highly recommend that one. I'll link to that as well
Now the invention of the ultrasound also has its roots in Sweden the Swedish doctor by the name of Amy
Elder, he worked alongside the Austrian researcher Carl Hellmuth Hertz, and they developed the first ultrasound
This became the primary
Non-invasive way to examine our hearts as well as our internal organs
And of course when Mother's want to determine whether or not they're pregnant or really just check the gender of their baby
They use ultrasound. So this is another invention that
Completely changed history and like what would we do without this next invention like wearing pads just wouldn't be the same the modern-day
Zipper was created by a Swedish American inventor Gideon sunbeh
He had improved upon an earlier not so effective version that was created back in the Year
1913 and this new version that he designed he called it the separable fastener and then he patented it in the year
1917 and now we use them in wearing pants or trousers if you're from the UK as well as other backpacks
And other kind of bags
Now for those of you who are watching this video on your computer
I can almost bet a hundred percent of you are watching it on a flat screen monitor Savannah tour born locker wall
He discovered the ferroelectric
Liquid crystals back in the year nineteen 9 and this is a technology that led to the development of the flat-screen monitors
And from that discovery flat-screen monitors went into mass production since the Year 1994
That's the reason why I bought mine
This monitor has a 60 Hertz refresh rate with a 1 millisecond greater great response time also
Many families and people out there would probably have gone bankrupt if it wasn't for the invention of Skype
Yeah, you get to save a lot of money on those long-distance calls to your relatives overseas
But what you didn't know is that this came out of the mind of a Swedish man
His name was Nicholas zentrum
And he co-developed Skype and he worked with a team including a Danish inventor by the name of Janos Freese creating Skype
Of course capitalize on the use of Internet technology and in the year 2011 Microsoft bought for eight point five billion u.s
Dollars and I all saw the Microsoft invented Skype. Nope
So again, we gotta say thank you to the nation of Sweden for saving the rest of us a whole lot of money
Although many of us don't use old-school telephones anymore
Thought it was pretty important to share this invention. The Swedish telecommunications company Ericsson was surrounded by Lars Magnus Ericsson in the year
1876 and the company's first ultra successful product was a telephone
handset
It had the mic where you spoke in as well as the earpiece to listen to all in one before that
With telephones yet to hold a microphone in one hand and hold the earpiece in the other hand pretty annoying
But this just put it all together in one and has made it so much easier
Every achievement
has been further proof that the frontiers of progress have no limit and finally the last
Invention and discovery that I want to share that came out of Sweden was these safety matches?
Matches of course have been around for a long time, right, but they were very dangerous
So you really have to know what you're doing or else you'd get burned and burn up everything and everyone else around you
However, thanks to gust stuff or pods. We don't have to worry so much about that anymore
He had decided to move the flammable phosphorus
Which was embedded in the match head to the side of the matchbox as well as replace the poisonous yellow
phosphorus with a red version of the
phosphorus that was non-toxic and because of this matches became a lot safer and this was
Huge for the Swedish economy because several times in history
75% of all matches sold in the world were coming from Sweden, okay
So those were 10 amazing
discoveries and inventions that came out of the nation of Sweden how many of these did you know had ties to
Sweden like really for me that this was completely surprising. I hadn't known any of them
let me know down in the
Comment section below and this is nowhere close to the amount of amazing stuff that came out of Sweden
So if you want to see more videos like this also leave that below in the comments section
Well, it's that time again now where I say goodbye, but it's not goodbye. It's see you later
I can't wait to share more interesting facts with you in another episode. My name is lyric and it and I'll see you real soon
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