Edison smoked several cigars a day.

Yeah, he invented stuff to shut up.

Welcome to watch Mojo.

And today we're counting down our picks for the top 10 mocked inventions that became successful.

My friends at long last the day has come.

We have the means, the understanding the technology to allow spiders to talk with cats for this list will be looking at life changing inventions that were initially predicted to fail.

Which of these entries are you most surprised to see on this list?

Let us know in the comments below Number 10 automobiles.

The automotive industry is today one of the world's largest, but just a little over a century ago, there was a lot of skepticism about the prospects of the driving machine.

You know, the horseless carriage was actually the work of the devil.

So you can imagine that this was not a good environment to be the person inventing the horseless carriage.

In 1899, the literary digest, a highly influential magazine at the time, referred to automobiles as ordinary horseless carriages that will never be used as commonly as bicycles due to their expensive cost.

Just four years later, Horace Rackham, one of the first lawyers of the Ford Motor Company.

I was discouraged from buying stock in the company by a bank president who called automobiles only a novelty and a fat, if only they could drive a DeLorean back to the future.

They'd sure eat their words 88 MPH.

Number nine umbrellas.

Special umbrella compliments of kg bird maker of superior umbrellas.

It's a clue alright, but what does it mean?

Although they were initially designed to protect people from sunlight By the early 18th century umbrellas have become more commonly used for their waterproof function.

However, in most parts of the world, it seems men had no problem at all getting wet as umbrellas were largely seen as an accessory only used by women, umbrella bunny.

Now we got that damn urban sombrero to contend with in Britain it would take the perseverance of one Jonas Hanway to get everyone else in on the umbrella crates.

After returning from a trip abroad, Hanway began using an umbrella, which infuriated many coach drivers who saw big booms and business on rainy days and we're scared of losing customers thankfully.

Hanway stuck to his guns and by doing so, he successfully dismantled the gendered associations of the umbrella.

Number eight airplanes.

Not everyone was impressed when the Wright Brothers broke new ground and successfully flew the first airplane in 1903.

It is a short flight, but with Wilbur Wright at the controls.

The wright flyer shows complete mastery of the skies.

Just a couple of years later, Ferdinand foch, a french general and the supreme Allied commander during the First World War called the visionary inventions, interesting scientific toys and while he may not have been totally wrong seeing his planes now also make for pretty interesting toys.

He completely missed the mark when he determined that they were of no military value, aerial photography became a vital operation from both sides during the war.

Today, airplanes are not only used commercially to transport passengers and cargo.

Their ability to provide aerial surveillance has proven to be of immense value to various military forces around the world.

Number seven forks.

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Alright, What are we having?

The use of the fork as a personal utensil was popularized during the Byzantine empire and while it became common all over the Middle East by the 10th century, its use was still sneered at most parts of europe to Byzantine.

Princesses, Stefanou and Maria are hero Polina are largely credited with introducing the fork to the western world when they moved to europe after getting married, Tayo fondue was met with shock after using the utensil to eat and our hero Polina was ridiculed by the church for using it instead of the natural forks attached to her hands.

God, in his wisdom, has provided man with natural forks his fingers.

Therefore, it is an insult to him to substitute artificial metallic forks for them.

When eating even with the efforts of both princesses, it would take a few 100 years before forks were adopted all around europe, shrimp fork, salad fork, dinner fork, number six printing press, The fruit of Gutenberg's work can be seen all around us.

But it's more important than that for everything that our culture and our civilization depends on starts with Gutenberg's invention and the first flatbed printing press was developed in Germany in the mid 15th century, it was seen as a threat to the work of monks who regarded their hand copying of the scripture as divine labor.

In 14 90 to 1, such monk, johann Nostradamus, published an essay in which he described printing as morally inferior to copying and predicted that printed materials I would never last.

The team use a Benedictine Abbot and leading scholar argued that since printed materials used paper, they were more easily degradable and incomparable to the parchment that monks wrote there words on to show the church that his invention presented an opportunity and not a threat.

He also printed documents like this papal indulgence, ironically, tratamiento has published this essay on printed paper as he believed the material would be far reaching that way.

We're so used to living with printed matter every day of our lives, from the cereal package in the morning to the book at bedtime, that it might perhaps be rather hard to imagine what the world was like before printing number five televisions For how ubiquitous televisions are today.

It's hard to fathom that so many people were against the idea.

At first, after Scottish inventor, John Baird put on the very first public demonstration of a television in 1925, he drew the ire of radio legend, Lee Deforest, who predicted the device would be a commercial and financial disaster.

This apparatus was shown to members of the Royal Institution and others on January 27, 1926 and showed through television images in light and shade for the first time baird's invention was also ridiculed by members of the print media with one daily express newspaper editor calling him a lunatic for even thinking the idea of a television was attainable even 20 years down the line, it was still met with skepticism, most notably from Hollywood giant Darryl F.

Zanuck, who deemed the device amir plywood box that people would quickly get tired of.

Television has grown from a scientific novelty to a commercial service.

Number four, space travel, just like airplanes and automobiles.

Before the invention of spacecraft and humanities ambition to explore the universe was met with a lot of derision by critics.

We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things not because they are easy, but because they are hard making another appearance on our list as radio pioneer Lee de Forest For as innovative as he was deforest clearly lacked a lot of foresight as he proclaimed.

Such a manmade moon voyage will never occur regardless of all future scientific advances.

One small step for man on in this case, it didn't take too long to prove to Forest wrong.

It's just four years after his remarks, Russian cosmonaut, yuri gagarin was launched into space paving the way for the prevalent exploration of space that occurs today.

I hope you enjoyed the trip today with us on board the dragon capsule endeavor with our friend Tremor, the Apatosaurus number three light bulbs.

Prior to the invention of the light bulb, people used candles, gas lights and oil lamps to illuminate their surroundings at night.

But these were mostly unsafe options.

With his development of the first commercially viable electric light bulb thomas, Edison provided a safer, practical and more stable option, but some people still chose to remain in the dark.

The first reaction by the scientific community was the whole thing was a hoax.

Despite that, the public went crazy over it.

Professor Henry morton, the then president of the stevens Institute of Technology called the invention of conspicuous failure and a british parliamentary committee deemed it unworthy of the attention of practical or scientific men.

Edison didn't quite have all the kinks worked out yet, but he did have a great patent and his patent, despite the attempts of many others to enter the market, protected his business very effectively.

While his detractors would eventually see the light, Edison himself proved to be a nay Sayer, as he frequently mocked Nikola Tesla's invention of the alternating current model.

Everybody assumed that Edison would get the contract to wire it into power.

The first world's fair powered by electricity.

And to everyone's surprise, Westinghouse, using Tesla's patents, won the contract number two telephones actually being able to hear a real voice on either end.

That's something that many more people would be excited about and it actually tied humanity together.

Once Alexander Graham Bell received the first patent for the telephone.

In 1876.

He shopped his device around and made $100,000 offer to telecommunications giant Western Union.

The company's president, William Orton declined the purchase, reportedly asking what use could this company make of an electrical toy?

Obviously that toy became one of the most widely used devices.

And just three years later, Western Union tried to develop their own telephone and were shut down with patent lawsuits from Bell.

The fact that human voices seemed to be emerging from this contraption, It's beyond magical.

Just like its predecessors.

The cellphone would also receive its own share of skepticism as it emerged in the 1980s with an executive at Motorola proclaiming that it wouldn't replace wired telephones.

Glad to know they were all proven wrong.

Industry watchers say there are only a few 1000 cellular phones in use right now.

But that number is expected to grow considerably within the next few years.

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Number one, the internet, every business, no matter how large and no matter how small will be on the internet in the year 2000, it's hard to imagine what the modern world would look like without the internet.

But back in the mid nineties, not everyone was enthusiastic about the idea you write to it like mail.

You know, a lot of people use it and communicate.

I guess they can communicate with NBC writers and producers.

Alison, can you explain what internet is?

In 1995 astronomer Clifford stoll published a newsweek article in which he predicted that the brilliant innovation would just never work.

That same year, robert Metcalfe, inventor of ethernet, made the same prediction and declared that he'd eat his words if he was wrong.

A promise he fulfilled at the International World Wide Web conference in 1997 when he consumed a blended mixture of his article and water.

I gave about a dozen reasons why the internet was fragile.

Many of those reasons are still true today.

It wouldn't be the first time the internet or one of its components would be belittled as email to was initially dismissed as a viable medium of communication.

It's very hip to be on the internet right now.

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