Am I to understand that Mormons believe they are entirely responsible for TVs and"Word Processors"?

Question

Here are links with answers from Mormons who appear to be making this claim:

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20120212185340AAcrrHF
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=ApU98O9tFqG9ozXMUlhbW9Lsy6IX;_ylv=3?qid=20120212093658AABuc4t
http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20101116134244AAR6Lt8
http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20110213150629AAXiTx3
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20120204090444AA6gKZX
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20101227214532AAa5JTY
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20111115143052AAa6Ym5

The first word processing software that I am aware of is Wang 1200 in 1971, did Mormons have something to do with that or was there another that came earlier?

Unless they really are solely responsible for these inventions (and not merely involved in a group of individuals) these statements seem very arrogant and dishonest.

Thoughts?

Answer 1

What I don't understand is why people say "you have a lot of time on your hands " while answering the question they say doesn't mean anything. And yes, mormons also invented quaker moon people, ancient american jews, kolob, and CURELOMS. And they also invented pretty much the crappiest version of jesus ever too, the guy visited the americas but not china? Maybe your avatar explains their juvenile hostility.

Answer 2

You are a sad sad troll.



Your profile says that you were baptized in 1996, served a mission and went through the temple.



However, in other questions you have said that you are 18 and an older woman asked you out.

https://answersrip.com/question/index?qid=20110731055801AAtFSvX



Also of interest is that you have some affiliation with another user on Y/A. When ever they ask a question you automatically get voted best answer...I think you are actually bi-polar with 2 accounts.

http://answers.yahoo.com/activity?show=rWfGUdRtaa



I actually feel a sorry for you. Surely you have something useful to do...?



Edit: I'm sorry I did you actually have a question worth answering? After reading up on Wang...it looks like his advances were more hardware related than software. So in regards to the term Word Processor you need to be more specific. Sure you added clarification, but just argues the point. You've now entered into a "definition" battle for justification. The fact is that Mormons did contribute to both technological advances. Saying that they didn't, is like saying Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot didn't really invent the concept of the car because the wheel was already around.



There's you an answer. Now why don't you repond to the issues about your character. Are you LDS or not? Are you 19 or older since you've apparently already returned from your mission....? And you call LDS dishonest......



@ Curelom... uh...think what you just typed. The LDS created a crappy Jesus. If you are Christian I'd hate to see "your" version of Christ. Apparently the standard are pretty low if all you do is attack others and belittle their faith. I'm pretty sure that's not what the Jesus did in the bible.

Answer 3

I might love to factor out that the purpose we've constructed temples is to support conclude the paintings that demands to be performed in any other case the earth might be "wasted." Whether that's a conditional or distinct word is style of open to interpretation, however I do not consider there's a have got to cleanse the whole earth wherein the temples and different righteous humans have already lived. There are, nevertheless, different locations on the planet that might have got to be cleansed. Think, for illustration, of one of the most awareness camps and prisons wherein real unspeakable matters have occurred. I don't see the resurrected Jewish humans being especially curious about coming again to reside anyplace close wherein the ones locations are, until they're wholly eliminated and changed with some thing utterly special. Or a extra moden fictional illustration, within the film "Forrest Gump" you could remember the scene wherein Forrest has the rickety ancient condominium wherein deficient Jenny was once abused as a little one wholly razed and eliminated. As I appreciate it, the "Rapture" as a doctrine was once constructed within the nineteenth Century, and when you consider that it was once mysterious and powerful even as, humans obtained rather stuck up in it and mixed it with plenty of alternative predictions approximately whilst the sector was once going to finish. It is my opinion that we can truthfully maintain to reside lifestyles a lot as it's for many years, with the resurrection taking position first on the establishing of the millennium, and people who have now not but died carrying on with to reside to approximately 70-seventy two after which being "twinkled" - that is only a approach of claiming an on the spot difference in our our bodies alternatively than going via bodily demise. It is the "meek" a good way to inherit the earth, now not the depraved, so it possibly extra proper to mention the depraved might be moved somewhere else. I consider the rapture as a complete is extra tied into the First and Second resurrection, wherein as different answerers have mentioned, the sheep might be separated from the goats. Or seem at it this fashion, you'll be able to nonetheless reside for your condominium at the same time it's being made over, so you would not must pass to an utterly special nation. Hope this opinion is helping, founded on years of Sunday college classes and ordinary feel.

Answer 4

Philo Farnsworth invented Television as much as anyone in history invented anything.



You could have just googled wikipedia on this question. But since your fingers are too lazy to do that, I will do that it for you.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philo_Farnsworth



The modern word processor was invented by Alan Ashton along with engineers who were primarily from BYU. Obviously you need another lesson in Wikipedia googling. I will serve it up for you on a tray, because that is what you demand.



Alan Ashton headed up the team that created the first modern (note the word modern) Word Processor. The operative being "modern".



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Ashton_%28executive%29



It was a Mormon that invented most of the modern fire arms. His name is Browning. Many guns that do not bear his name were invented by him. Some guns that he invented do bear his name.



Now I won't provide a link for that, because by this time, hopefully you have learned your lesson in googling for information.



And I don't want to have to open up another can of google. (Though it might be a fun thing to do, I must admit.)



http://Mormon.org Chat.





God bless.

Answer 5

Sorry I didn't answer earlier , had to nip outside and deal with some looney digging up the lawn .



He'd found some metal sheets , good-oh , Ive got to weigh in a bagfull of old water pipe offcuts at the scrappies tomorrow , so that'll add a bit of weight .



And turning to your Q the answer is that all knowledge worth knowing was revealed to mankind by the great prophet Zarquon 17th .

Answer 6

Yes. Here's a partial list of Mormon inventors. And I went to school in the building housing the lab that Philo Farnsworth used to create the first television tube, so I do know that one is true.



television - Philo Farnsworth

electric traffic light - Lester Wire

odometer - William Clayton

headphones - Nathaniel Baldwin

hearing aid - Harvey Fletcher

audiometer - Harvey Fletcher

stereo sound - Harvey Fletcher

video games - Nolan Bushnell

transistor radio - Marvin Harris

modern word processor - Alan Ashton (WordPerfect)

electric guitar - Alvino Rey

department store - ZCMI, world's first dept. store, started by Brigham Young

Zip drive - Iomega

repeating rifle ("Browning rifle") - Jonathan Browning

automatic shotgun (and many more firearms) - John Moses Browning

NetWare (Network Operating System) - Drew Major

condominums - Keith Romney

women's buttonless one-piece bathing suit - Rose Marie Reid (patent #2,535,018)

photopermeable swimsuit - Rose Marie Reid (for full-body tanning)

The flatbed scanner

DOOM, Quake, Civilization, Age of Empires, etc. - Sandy Petersen

artificial heart - Robert K. Jarvik (inventor/doctor) & Barney Clark (first recipient)

heart bypass machine used in open heart surgery - Homer R. Warner

numerous patents for beam-surface processes (in free-electron lasers) - Norman Tolk

Slurry (aqueous) explosives - Melvin Cook (Nobel Prize winner)

tetrahedron press - William Hall

synthetic diamonds - William Hall

Sorenson video codec - James L. Sorenson

Answer 7

I thought that everything that wasn't invented in India 5,000 years ago was invented in Persia 4,000 years ago. Except for all the stuff invented in China 3,000 years ago.

Answer 8

I thought it was the Welsh ~ Cap'n Morgan has been hitting the bottle again.



Are these the same pieces of equipment used for characterizations of: Jesus Christ, Buddah, Mohammed, and others?



Thoughts?

Answer 9

Especially dishonest since, as every schoolboy knows, the Scots invented everything.

Answer 10

My thoughts are that 1) you have way too much time on your hands and 2) you keep getting weirder and weirder.

Answer 11

No, but God is directly responsible for all the matter, etc. that you see around you, including your own body.