Where did advance technology come from?

[Freethinker101]

Before you start commenting on this. I'm talking about random technology, and electronics, eg cars...
Where did they come from in the 1800's their was nothing then, but in the 1870-90, new and interesting things started to appear such as automobiles, and photographic imagery, but an I'm not the only one wondering were this all started? It just boomed from now where, yes their were many scientist: Wilhelm Roentgen - German physicist; studied the transmission and photographic capabilities of rays he called "x rays" (1895); received the first Nobel Prize (1901).
1846-1927 Ira Remsen - American chemist and educator; carried out investigations in both organic and inorganic chemistry.
Everything just started to appear, out of nowhere and even early they were just getting in to photography, but this technology appeared out of nowwhere and has evolved into is what is today.
So anyone have any idea where this new found information might have come from? Space, aliens, or maybe just pure coincidence who knows.

 

[4484448444844484]

These things don't just appear out of nowhere; they start very simple and are slowly made more advanced. Usually someone notices that a chemical does something unusual and eventually someone else finds something it can be used for. Just use Wikipedia or Google.

 

[eezaak]

Not sure if this is a troll. Advances in technology are built on previous peoples achievements. One guy comes up with an idea, then another guy builds on it and develops it further down the track. Humans are smart cookies and great at innovating.

 

[Romidude]

...I lost several thousand brain-cells reading that.

 

[Freethinker101]

In truth the only person who truly explained that well enough was GIJames. It does prove a point, but it must of took longer than a 60 year period where things where invented, and discovered since church back then didn't exactly, like free thinkers, but the ideas might have spreaded quick to be accepted quicker. Oh and Romidude 7000 brain cells account for nothing, you lose millions drinking half a bear.

 

[Nieroshai]

You're looking at a timeline, not the individual inventions and the processes that led to them. The light bulb took around a thousand tries to perfect, and the internal combustion was preceeded by steam engines, which was preceeded by even simpler things. The microwave oven was discovered by accident when a microwave emitter melted a scientist's chocolate bar. Looking at the timeline may make you think these things came out of nowhere, but I thank the rise of capitalism over the feudal system's insistence that everything is done by, and owned by, the king. The space race caused another boom, and the industrial revolution was preceeded by the Enlightenment and Renaissance.

 

[Nieroshai]

Also, the whole Ancient Astronauts/Aliens thing is far-fetched especially because it's unnecessary when you study the origins of individual things instead of the large, very grainy big picture.

 

[smithy_2045]

One discovery can open the flood gates for many more.