Has Thailand ever invented or developed something significant ?

[bangkockney]

If all you have is a bronze medal that is not very impressive, how about the helmet invention what was that all about, or was that it?

What have you invented that serves humankind?

And technology that saves lives isn't impressive to you?

Edited September 8, 2013 by bangkockney

[sms747]

Well it seems the answer to the original question is no not really. It would take hours to list British inventions, here ar just the computing ones listed on wiiki

Computing[edit source | editbeta]

• Analytical engine ^[47] - Sir Charles Babbage
• ACE and Pilot ACE ^[48] - Alan Turing
• ARM architecture The ARM CPU design is the microprocessor architecture of 98% of mobile phones and every smartphone.^[49]
• Bombe ^[48] - Alan Turing
• Colossus computer ^[50] Colossus computers were the first electronic digital programmable computers. They used vacuum tubes and binary representation of numbers - Tommy Flowers
• Difference engine ^[47] - Sir Charles Babbage
• First programmer - Ada Lovelace
• First Programming Language Analytical Engine ordercode - Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace
• Boolean algebra, the basis for digital logic - George Boole
• World Wide Web ^[51] - Sir Tim Berners-Lee
• Developed HTTP and HTML - Tim Berners-Lee
• Argo system the world's first electrically powered mechanical analogue computer (also called at the Argo Clock) - Arthur Pollen
• Sumlock ANITA calculator the world's first all-electronic desktop calculator - Bell Punch Co
• Sinclair Executive, the world's first small electronic pocket calculator - Sir Clive Sinclair
• Osborne 1 The first commercially successful portable computer, the precursor to the Laptop computer - Adam Osborne
• Designed what was the first laptop computer, the GRiD Compass in 1979 - Bill Moggridge
• Heavily involved in the development of the Linux kernel - Andrew Morton & Alan Cox
• Sinclair ZX80, ZX81 and ZX Spectrum - Sir Clive Sinclair
• Flip-flop circuit, which became the basis of electronic memory (Random-access memory) in computers - William Eccles and F. W. Jordan
• Universal Turing machine - The UTM model is considered to be the origin of the "stored program computer" used by John von Neumann in 1946 for his "Electronic Computing Instrument" that now bears von Neumann's name: the von Neumann architecture, also UTM is considered the first operating system - Alan Turing
• The development of packet switching co-invented by British engineer Donald Davies and American Paul Baran - National Physical Laboratory, London England
• The first person to conceptualise the Integrated Circuit - Geoffrey W.A. Dummer
• The first modern computer Manchester Small-Scale Experimental Machine - (SSEM), nicknamed Baby. Was the world's first stored-program computer. Developed by Frederic Calland Williams & Tom Kilburn^[52]
• Williams tube - a cathode ray tube used to electronically store binary data (Can store roughly 500 to 1,000 bits of data) - Freddie Williams & Tom Kilburn
• Manchester Mark 1 Historically significant computer because of its pioneering inclusion of index registers - Freddie Williams and Tom Kilburn
• Autocode regarded as the first ever computer compiler in 1952 for the Manchester Mark 1 computer - Alick Glennie
• Developed the concept of microprogramming from the realisation that the Central Processing Unit (CPU) of a computer could be controlled by a miniature, highly specialised computer program in high-speedROM - Maurice Wilkes in 1951
• Ferranti Mark 1 - Also known as the Manchester Electronic Computer was the first computer to use the principles of early CPU design (Central processing unit) - Freddie Williams and Tom Kilburn - Also the world's first successful commercially available general-purpose electronic computer.
• The oldest known recordings of computer generated music were played by the Ferranti Mark 1 computer - Christopher Strachey
• EDSAC was the first complete, fully functional computer to use the von Neumann architecture, the basis of every modern computer - Maurice Wilkes
• EDSAC 2 the successor to the Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator or EDSAC. It was the first computer to have a microprogrammed (Microcode)control unit and a bit slice hardware architecture - Team headed by Maurice Wilkes
• The first graphical computer game OXO on the EDSAC at Cambridge University - A.S. Douglas
• The world's first computer game with 3D graphics - Elite Developed by David Braben and Ian Bell in 1984
• Metrovick 950 was the first commercial transistor computer built in 1959 - Metropolitan-Vickers company
• LEO Made history by running the first business application (payroll system) on an electronic computer in 1951 for J. Lyons and Co - Maurice Wilkes
• Atlas Computer, it was arguably the world's first supercomputer and was the fastest computer in the world until the release of the American CDC 6600 Also This machine introduced many modern architectural concepts: spooling, interrupts, pipelining, interleaved memory, virtual memory and paging - Team headed by Tom Kilburn
• The world's first web browser called WorldWideWeb that ran on the NeXTSTEP platform. It was later renamed Nexus to avoid confusion with the World Wide Web - Sir Tim Berners-Lee
• Digital audio player (MP3 Player) - Kane Kramer
• Touchpad Pointing device - First developed for Psion PLC's Psion MC 200/400/600/WORD Series in 1989
• Co-Inventor of the world's first trackball device - developed by Tom Cranston, Fred Longstaff and Kenyon Taylor
• The world's first handheld computer (Psion Organiser) - Psion PLC
• The first rugged computer - Husky (computer)
• First PC-compatible palmtop computer (Atari Portfolio) - Ian Cullimore
• Denotational semantics - Christopher Strachey pioneer in programming language design
• Wolfram's 2-state 3-symbol Turing machine - Stephen Wolfram

[bangkockney]

RTFQ - it's not about how many!

[Thaddeus]

If necessity is the mother of invention, Thailand is an orphan.

It has everything it needs already, or so they are constantly told.

[impulse]

While I'm sure there are a lot of creative Thai's I have to remember that patent protection begins and ends at the border. It's possible to get a Thai patent on an item that's been sold in Europe or the USA for years. It also works the other way. Probably shouldn't happen, but it does.

For anyone really interested, go to USPTO.gov and do a patent search for patents where the patent owner or inventor lists Thailand as an address.

I'm sure there are European sites to do the same, but I have only searched the USPTO site.

Can you give a more specific URL. USPTO.gov just is the landing page and its very difficult to find what you are referring to.

I think also to strengthen your claim, it would help if you could give us an infographic that shows the total number of Patents for each country and where Thailand sits.

My claim is that there are some inventive Thais. Other than that, I have nothing to strengthen.

The USPTO website takes awhile to learn, but it's pretty easy once you have done a search or 20.

http://patft.uspto.gov/netahtml/PTO/search-adv.htm

[smooth expat]

som tam

[Somchai Mao]

The combined use of soap, a blow up mattress and a slippery girl to produce what is known worldwide as the "soapy".

[historyprof]

the education system doesn't encourage independent creative thinking, just obedient zombie nation ,that act like sheep

Whoever the OP is and whatever country he came from and whatever education system spawned him and all the people posting in this thread I wonder why all of the people posting here have not noticed the 13 page thread spanning 7 years. Yup 7 years and 13 pages of anti Thai posters ranting about how few inventions Thailand has thought of.

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/13420-thai-inventions/page-13

Do we really need this thread to read all the same old SH** again and again and again......

Or could be move this small thread to the big one of 13 pages spanning 7 years already?

[sms747]

nothing significant at all then, as expected.

[historyprof]

nothing significant at all then, as expected.

You have read all 13 pages of the first thread? Of course not. Is that the idea behind the new thread?

[geriatrickid]

Edited September 8, 2013 by geriatrickid

[NeverSure]

OP: From the Yale Law & Technology website, Thailand now sits third behind the US and Japan in terms of estimated biotech patents.

http://www.yalelawtech.org/ip-in-the-digital-age/biotech-in-thailand-how-patents-can-change-a-developing-nation/

I'm really impressed.

"On the agricultural side, the now great success has been with their genetically modified resistant rice. This helped the Thai agricultural economy expand rapidly and has made Thailand the largest exporter of rice in the world. Beyond this, Thailand is one of only five nations in the world with net food exports."

Didn't they also invent the rotting rice warehouse?

How about something high tech like a train that will stay on the tracks?

Edited September 8, 2013 by NeverSure

[jimbobs1]

So basically No

The Thais are not inventors but they can be quite ingenious in other ways. I am a man who has worked on construction sites for 20 years, when they built my house they showed me easier ways of doing quite complex jobs,

Also the art of spending your hard earned in Pattaya must an invention ,,I've seen the tight fisted of men leave with nothing

[historyprof]

OP: From the Yale Law & Technology website, Thailand now sits third behind the US and Japan in terms of estimated biotech patents.

http://www.yalelawtech.org/ip-in-the-digital-age/biotech-in-thailand-how-patents-can-change-a-developing-nation/

I'm really impressed.

"On the agricultural side, the now great success has been with their genetically modified resistant rice. This helped the Thai agricultural economy expand rapidly and has made Thailand the largest exporter of rice in the world. Beyond this, Thailand is one of only five nations in the world with net food exports."

Didn't they also invent the rotting rice warehouse?

How about something high tech like a train that will stay on the tracks?

The above was a nice positive post about a nation that the whole population would fit one state and there are States who have a larger GNP. But instead of saying something positive about the above positive post you point out something negative that has come from left field?

What kind of training are you undergoing to visit Thailand. Posting everything negative you can think of about Thailand and Thai people? Do you really think any of them will like you if you point out all the negatives you can think of about Thailand?

I don't mean to pick on you but how can you guys post all the negative stuff; what kind of results do you get at home when you tell it to the wife or GF?

Look at the General forum right now. Hi honey your country sure stinks and I really miss it back home and I'll never get used to eating dogs, motorcycle gangs and the organ harvesters are chasing me.

Edited September 8, 2013 by historyprof

[sms747]

nothing significant at all then, as expected.

You have read all 13 pages of the first thread? Of course not. Is that the idea behind the new thread?

Som tam would appear to be the only invention of merit and the only one that has affected the lives of Thais.

[historyprof]

nothing significant at all then, as expected.

You have read all 13 pages of the first thread? Of course not. Is that the idea behind the new thread?

Som tam would appear to be the only invention of merit and the only one that has affected the lives of Thais.

There is a difference between Philippine women and Thai women. The Thai women want to stay in Thailand and the Philippine women want to go to wherever you live. Western rich old men retire in Thailand and rich old Thai men retire in Thailand. The answer is in the things the Thais have invented but each man has to discover it himself. If you don't live here you never gonna know.

[bangkockney]

nothing significant at all then, as expected.

You have read all 13 pages of the first thread? Of course not. Is that the idea behind the new thread?

Som tam would appear to be the only invention of merit and the only one that has affected the lives of Thais.

Don't let facts get in the way of your prejudices.

[pilm]

the education system doesn't encourage independent creative thinking, just obedient zombie nation ,that act like sheep

You have studied the curriculum?

[7by7]

the education system doesn't encourage independent creative thinking, just obedient zombie nation ,that act like sheep

You have studied the curriculum?

I doubt that he's capable of studying anything.

My step daughter was 10 when she moved to the UK and started at a UK school. Apart from the obvious, English, British history etc, she was ahead of her British contemporaries in universal subjects such as maths and science.

Edited September 8, 2013 by 7by7

[Somchai Mao]

To be fair to the Thai people nothing of any value has ever come out of Africa and that's an absolutely massive continent with way more people than Thailand and probably the whole of SE Asia.

[7by7]

nothing of any value has ever come out of Africa

Well, there's Homo Sapiens for starters!

But there is an argument that they have not been of much value to the planet as a whole.

[Bcgardener]

As the OP of this thread I am a little disappointed in the overwhelming negative tone. I was not looking for negative criticism but answers to a question. I have already had posters acuse me of encouraging negativity even though that was not my intent.

I am well aware of the lack of patent protection here and also the inward looking slant of the education system. I was just hoping that someone could help me out with the question, and thankfully some of you have.

Sent from my GT-I9300 using Thaivisa Connect Thailand mobile app

[Mossfinn]

Well, they say Homo Sapiens wiped out the Neanderthals, a little reverse psychology on T.V, where the NeanderTrolls are wiping out the Homo sapiens

[klubex99]

No.

Nothing that has changed the world anyway.

They are just not that sort of culture. They are a culture of copiers, not original thinkers.

[NewlyMintedThai]

To be fair to the Thai people nothing of any value has ever come out of Africa and that's an absolutely massive continent with way more people than Thailand and probably the whole of SE Asia.

Nothing of any value came out of Africa? Where do you figure man first discovered fire and agriculture? What about all of the innovations that were made in Egypt? How about the first human heart transplant?

Seriously, sir, yours is not the garden variety type of ignorance.

[GuestHouse]

Thailand has invented a life style and culture most of us find it impossible to stay away from.

[NewlyMintedThai]

Perhaps the OP comes from the UK, birthplace of the GT-200?

[Mossfinn]

Dire drama! No research needed. Just switch on Thai TV any night/day/evening of the week.

Woof!

Shun!!

1 post and this guy got banned...

Not because of this post, but because of prior ones I suggest...........

[crazygreg44]

I guess it's about time I contribute my five cents. to this topic. I have a newspaper clip from a 2005 ( or 2006 ??) Hua Hin municipal magazine, in which it is explained by the Hua Hin City Mayor that City Hall has extended and improved municipal waste collecting to the point, that all plastic material will get separated from household trash - because it can be reused. The report says Hua Hin City Management has invented means to recycle plastic back into it's original state - into crude or raw oil.

I have kept this newsclip during all the years because I am waiting for the Hua Hin City Mayor to come out BIG with the news and make the whole world happy, with a patent or something similar, because it means the end of our worries about the decline of oil deploration . . . . . .but never anything like this happened since.

[Thaddeus]

Well, they say Homo Sapiens wiped out the Neanderthals, a little reverse psychology on T.V, where the NeanderTrolls are wiping out the Homo sapiens

Moss, where have you been, the forum has been devalued in worth because of your absence.

The best all encompassing description of human beings is this one..........

"The ape that got lucky"

Be thankful for who you are, because to be quite honest, you are not even remotely responsible for most it, and that is aimed at everyone.