aiml/standard/std-inventions.aiml

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<category>
<pattern>WHEN WAS * INVENTED</pattern>
<template>
<random>
<li>A few years before it came into general use.</li>
<li>Earlier that most people think.</li>
<li>It took quite a while to catch on.</li>
<li><set name="it"><star/></set> was developed over a long 
period of time.</li>
</random>
</template>
</category>

<category>
<pattern>WHEN WAS TELEVISION INVENTED</pattern>
<template>
<srai>WHEN WAS TV INVENTED</srai>
</template>
</category>

<category>
<pattern>WHEN WAS THE AIRPLANE INVENTED</pattern>
<template>
<srai>WHEN WERE AIRPLANES INVENTED</srai>
</template>
</category>

<category>
<pattern>WHEN WAS THE FIRST * BUILT</pattern>
<template>
<srai>WHEN WAS <star/> INVENTED</srai>
</template>
</category>

<category>
<pattern>WHEN WAS THE INTERNET INVENTED</pattern>
<template>
The first computers were connected to the Internet in 1970.
</template>
</category>

<category>
<pattern>WHEN WAS THE PC INVENTED</pattern>
<template>
The first PC computers appeared around 1975.
</template>
</category>

<category>
<pattern>WHEN WAS THE TELEPHONE INVENTED</pattern>
<template>
Bell demonstrated his first phone in 1876.
</template>
</category>

<category>
<pattern>WHEN WAS TV INVENTED</pattern>
<template>
Practical TV picture tubes first appeared in the 1930's.
</template>
</category>

<category>
<pattern>WHEN WERE AIRPLANES INVENTED</pattern>
<template>
The Wright Brothers first flew in 1903.
</template>
</category>

<category>
<pattern>WHO DISCOVERED ELECTRICITY</pattern>
<template>
It was the the Chinese, long before Ben Franklin.
</template>
</category>

<category>
<pattern>WHO INVENTED *</pattern>
<template>
<random>
<li>Benjamin Franklin</li>
<li>Linus Torvalds</li>
<li>Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin.</li>
<li>Thomas Edison.</li>
<li>The Wright Brothers.</li>
<li>Actually it was discovered by several people at about the same time.</li>
<li>The Chinese, long before Europeans.</li>
</random>
</template>
</category>

<category>
<pattern>WHO INVENTED AIRPLANES</pattern>
<template>
The Wright brothers invented the airplane in 1903.
</template>
</category>

<category>
<pattern>WHO INVENTED AUTOMOBILES</pattern>
<template>
Many people invented the car, but Henry Ford was
the first to develop the successful mass production assembly
lines for cars.
</template>
</category>

<category>
<pattern>WHO INVENTED LINUX</pattern>
<template>
Linus Torvalds, along with many
open source developers, and the Free Software Foundation GNU.
</template>
</category>

<category>
<pattern>WHO INVENTED RADIO</pattern>
<template>
Marconi developed the first practical wireless.
</template>
</category>

<category>
<pattern>WHO INVENTED SETL</pattern>
<template>
SETL was invented by Jacob Schwartz of NYU in 1969.
</template>
</category>

<category>
<pattern>WHO INVENTED STEEL</pattern>
<template>
The first practical steel manufacturing process
was invented by Bessemer.
</template>
</category>

<category>
<pattern>WHO INVENTED TELEVISION</pattern>
<template>
Philo T. Farnsworth, originally from Maine, developed the first
practical TV picture tube.
</template>
</category>

<category>
<pattern>WHO INVENTED THE * GENERATOR</pattern>
<template>
<srai>WHO INVENTED THE GENERATOR</srai>
</template>
</category>

<category>
<pattern>WHO INVENTED THE AIRPLANE</pattern>
<template>
<srai>WHO INVENTED AIRPLANES</srai>
</template>
</category>

<category>
<pattern>WHO INVENTED THE CAR</pattern>
<template>
<srai>WHO INVENTED AUTOMOBILES</srai>
</template>
</category>

<category>
<pattern>WHO INVENTED THE GENERATOR</pattern>
<template>
James Clerk Maxwell demonstrated the electric generator.
</template>
</category>

<category>
<pattern>WHO INVENTED THE INTERNET</pattern>
<template>
Al Gore :-)
</template>
</category>

<category>
<pattern>WHO INVENTED THE LIGHT BULB</pattern>
<template>
Thomas Edison invented <set name="it">the light bulb.</set>.
</template>
</category>

<category>
<pattern>WHO INVENTED THE PC</pattern>
<template>
Many people contributed to it.  But proper credit has to
be given to Steve Wozniak, who created an integrated affordable PC
platform in the Apple I.
</template>
</category>

<category>
<pattern>WHO INVENTED THE RADIO</pattern>
<template>
<srai>WHO INVENTED RADIO</srai>
</template>
</category>

<category>
<pattern>WHO INVENTED THE STEAM ENGINE</pattern>
<template>
James Watt developed the first practical steam engine.
</template>
</category>

<category>
<pattern>WHO INVENTED THE TELEPHONE</pattern>
<template>
Alexander Graham Bell demonstrated the first practical
voice telephone in 1876.
</template>
</category>

<category>
<pattern>WHO INVENTED TV</pattern>
<template>
<srai>WHO INVENTED TELEVISION</srai>
</template>
</category>

<category>
<pattern>WHO IS YOUR INVENTOR</pattern>
<template>
I was originally invented by Jon Baer.
</template>
</category>

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