Denmark has made a huge
Contributions to our world in ways that we may or may not even be aware of in this episode FTD facts
I'm looking at ten surprising discoveries and inventions that we can thank Denmark for. Hey guys
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Let's just jump right in starting at number 10
we have the invention of Skype Skype is a telecom app that
Specializes in providing video chats and voice calls between computers tablets and different mobile devices. You can even use them on
Xboxes now Skype was founded in 2003 by Nikola zentrum who's from Sweden and Yanis fries from
Denmark and in September of 2005 he and his partner sold Skype to eBay for
2.6 billion dollars and Yanis fries maintained ownership interest in Skype and sold it to Microsoft
for eight point five billion dollars in May of 2011
Not worse. I can't not include Lego in this episode
So these colorful building blocks started in Denmark back in the year?
1932 in a workshop in Billund Denmark to be exact and this workshop was run by Olli kirk christiansen
Now LEGO sets have passed on from generation to generation and they span across cultures and you know
They keep reinventing Legos. They have like Batman Lego all kind of Lego. It's told everywhere in the world
Everybody knows about it. Everybody talks about it
And yeah, and if you didn't know it's of two Danish words leg and God meaning play. Well number eight brings us handball
So we can look at HAMP all way back to like the ancient Romans and ancient Greeks
They played a version of early handball, but it wasn't until later
societies where the modern game of handball was invented which most historians attribute to the efforts of
Denmark as well as Germans and Swedes, however
Historians actually suggest that the Danish athlete named old Neilson played a big role in
Standardizing the roles and structure of the modern game of handball number seven brings us the loud
Speaker Danish engineer Peter Jensen and the American Edwin pritam they work together back in
1915 to invent the Magnavox which was the first
loudspeaker that the world ever saw now as you could imagine the use of a speaker for public things was completely
Game-changing you can reach a larger audience
Even the u.s. President Woodrow Wilson use a Magna box in 1919 to address the audience in San Diego
There's also the invention of the light machine gun
the Matteson is a light machine gun that Euless a Rasmussen and
Theodore subbu designed and proposed for adoption by Colonel William Herman Olaf Matson
Who is a Danish Minister of War and it didn't Charmy ended up adopting these in 1902?
And what makes it so significant was that these were the world's first true light machine guns that were produced in large
Quantity and they're able to sell to over 34 different countries
They were used in combat for over a hundred years a number five half way in we have electromagnetism
Which is attributed to Hans Christian ørsted and he was born in August 14
1777 and he lived up until March 9th
1851 so he was he well
He was a Danish physicist and chemist who discovered that electric currents create magnetic fields
Which was the first connecting piece between electricity and magnetism
And Orson's law and arts Ted was named after him number or brings us pure yeast now back in
1887 there is a whole lot of excitement for bear drinkers of Denmark. Well, dr
Emil Christian Hansen discovered a method of actually creating what is called?
pure yeast and that
ended the beer disease that was plaguing the
country years before now this whole method changed everything for the entire industry and the new yeast was rightfully named the
Sekar moisés Carlsberg genesis, we can also thank Denmark for the dry cell battery Frederick
Lui Wilhelm Henson is known to be the person that designed one of the first dry cell batteries all the way back in
1887 and because of his invention batteries were able to be transported a lot easier now after starting his own
Factory to produce his batteries. He started selling his batteries to the Danish telephone company
And now today the company Duracell, we all know those guys they own. Hella syns brand name number two
We have Google Maps now
Google Maps was first started as a program designed by two Danish brothers Lars and Jen's LLL strap Rasmussen
And they were actually a Sydney Australia based company who named it where two
Technologies now was first designed to be separately downloaded by users
But the company later actually pitched the idea for just a purely web-based
product to Google which changed the whole method of distribution in October 2004
The company was acquired by Google Inc. Then there was the discovery up insulin
so the Danes are responsible for finding the relationship between
hemoglobin and the
concentration of carbon dioxide
Otherwise known as the Bohr effect. And this was published by the Nobel Peace Prize winner, August Krogh and Christian Bohr
Who was a son of Niels Bohr back in?
1904 now this finding was a huge contribution to the medical field and it led to the discovery of insulin at novo nordisk
--it, which is a Danish founded company, that is still
Exploding with new ideas and innovations today and just like that another episode is done
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