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The world’s best-known inventions of Vietnamese people

VietNamNet Bridge – The invented automated teller machine (ATM), nano technology which helps eliminate toxicity from water or fuel saver for motorbikes have all brought high income and helped humans save energy.

The father of ATM

He is Do Duc Cuong, a Vietnamese, who has made 50 inventions. Cuong spent 20 years working for the US Citibank and senior specialist for the US banking sector. Since his returning to Vietnam in 2003, Cuong has been working a senior advisor to Dong A bank.

Born in the central province of Quang Ngai, Cuong was well-known as a student fond of learning. He was found as the person with the highest intelligence index in a test carried out by a Japanese group of scientists. This gave him the opportunity to receive a scholarship to follow the university study at Osaka University.

In Japan, Cuong went to university and took an extra job for Toshiba Company. An invention then unexpectedly brought him to the US. Cuong was then invited to the US to “use a technique to obtain one billion clients for the bank.”

Cuong said his work is to popularize banking services, so as to make the services accessible to everyone. He has invented the ATM, which is considered a breakthrough in the banking history.

The nano technology and the Vietnamese engineers

The finding on the nano technology which helps absolutely eliminate arsenic from water has helped Czech Republic to cleanse the areas which have the surface water polluted with arsenic. The areas include the northern, central, southern regions and Karlovy Vary, where thermopower plants and coal mines pollute the water sources.

The invention has been highly appreciated by Czech and other European countries. The inventors are Nguyen Thanh Dong, MA and Engineer Hoang Dieu Hung.

The fuel saver for motorbikes…

…has been invented by Dang Hoang Son from Vinh Long City.

Motorbike users have confirmed that the saver allows to consume one liter of petrol only to travel 60-70 kilometers. Meanwhile, a normal motorbike would allow to travel 45-50 kilometers with one liter of petrol.

The fuel saver invented by Son not only helps save 20-30 percent of the petrol consumed, but also helps prolong the life expectancy of motor engines.

Smart wheelchair controlled by thoughts

news.com.au in late August reported that Professor Dr Viet Hung Nguyen, a Vietnamese native who now works at the Sydney University in Australia, and his associates successfully generated a smart wheelchair.

The wheelchair is designed to have the function of a moving robot which can avoid obstacles it sees through the camera installed on the vehicle. The wheelchair can move based on people’s commands, either the shake of the head, eyes, and the thoughts of the owners.

Hung believes that the invention would create a big revolution for the human’s research works to help make the lives more convenient for paralytic people.

The invention has been ranked third in the list of the 100 leading inventions in Australia.

River flow model tests the water for farming

Dr Chu Hoang Long was the only Vietnamese co-inventor who received Eureka prize for the water research and innovation.

The model allows farmers to find out the optimal volume of water needed for watering, and the optimal volume of water needed for protecting the environment, while helping create the flows beneficial to the environment.

The research work also pointed out that if in 2001-2009, the world reserved less water for watering in agriculture production and more for the environment protection, this would create an economic benefit worth 500 million-3 billion dollars.

 
 
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Vietnamese invented the Tran Mafia

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Vietnamese invented nano machines? If this were truethen they would have created super soldiers by now.

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no, it's a fintech

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Vietnamese_inventions_and_discoveries

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I. From Ancient Weapons and Firearms…

After the Ming - Ho War in 1407 [1]which resulted in the total collapse of ancient Dai Viet and marked the Forth Chinese Domination of Vietnam [2], the Ming Dynasty captured a lot of Vietnamese weapons and also obtained technology to manufacture the Shenji” (神机, Thần Cơ) guns and firearms from Ho Nguyen Trung [3], a high-ranking Vietnamese military mandarin and notable scholar.

Figure 1: Cannons and firearms of Le Dynasty [4]

Moreover, the first Chinese Firearms Division in history was formed at this time under the name “Shenjiying” (神机营, Thần Cơ Doanh) [5]. The Official History of Ming, Book 92 (明史/卷92) mentioned about this event as follows:

“至明成祖平交阯,得神机枪炮法,特置神机营肄习” [6]

 

Han-Viet translation: “Chí Minh Thành Tổ bình Giao Chỉ, đắc Thần Cơ Thương Pháo Pháp, đặc trí Thần Cơ Doanh dị tập”.

English translation: “Emperor Yongle of Ming [7] after pacified Jiaozhi (ancient name of Vietnam), he obtained the “Shenji” technology for manufacture, then established the special division of Shenjiying”.

Since 1427, after regained the independence from Ming Dynasty, Dai Viet also contributed another type of matchlock/ arquebus to the arsenal of Ming Dynasty. It was called the Jiao Chong” (交銃, Giao súng)literally means Jiaozhi Arquebus.

Figure 2: Depiction of the Vietnamese matchlock (Jiao Chong) [8]

During the French colonial war against Nguyen Dynasty and the suppression of the Can Vuong movement in Vietnam (1885–1896) [9], there was a Vietnamese peasant named Cao Thang [10]who successfully manufactured the Vietnamese version of Fusil Gras mle 1874 [11] , a typical French Army service rifle at that time. It was called the “Cao Thang’s rifle”. However, the range of this Vietnamese rifle was limited.

Figure 3: A French Fusil Gras mle 1874 on display [12]

Figure 4: Some “Cao Thang’s rifles” at Ha Tinh museum in Vietnam [13]

II. …to Natural Sciences and Technologies

Anyone who attended either a Universität or a Technische Hochschule in Germany, they would knew about LaTeX [14] and its templates to write a dissertation/thesis. There was a Vietnamese researcher/ programmer named Han The Thanh, who successfully modified and invented the pdfTeX [15] as an extension of the original LaTeX in the year of 2000. His Ph.D dissertation named after “Micro-typographic extensions to the TEX typesetting system” [16] was successfully done at the Masaryk University in Czech Republic. After obtained his Ph.D title, Mr. Han The Thanh used to work for Ho Chi Minh City University of Pedagogy in Vietnam from 2001 to 2006.

Figure 5: The opening page from Han The Thanh’s thesis on pdfTeX

A lot of Vietnamese also made their contributions to the development of mathematics. One of the pioneer Vietnamese at this field was Professor Le Van Thiem, who was the first director of the Vietnam Institute of Mathematics [17]. He received education from École normale supérieure [18]in France and later successfully defensed his Ph.D thesis at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen [19] in Germany (1945).

Figure 6: The Doktor der Naturwissenschaften degree of Mr. Le Van Thiem on Mathematics [20]

The title of his Ph.D thesis was “Über die Bestimmung des Typus einfach zusammenhängender offener Riemannscher Flächen”, literally meaning the efforts to solve the problem of a a special class of Riemann surface .[21]

Last but not least, regarding to mobile game developments, Vietnamese programmer named Nguyen Ha Dong successfully developed a mobile game named Flappy Bird in 2012. It suddenly received the rise in popularity worldwide during 2013–2014, with its “high level of difficulty” [22].

Figure 7: A screenshot of the Flappy Bird [23]

Those were some typical Vietnamese inventions over time. Hope my answer above will satisfy your needs!

P/s: HAPPY LUNAR NEW YEAR 2019!

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