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Top Ten DARPA Inventions

Posted on 31 January 2010. Tags: , , , , , , ,

 
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The following are a list of 10 DARPA inventions that have been listed as some of the greatest projects of the Defence Advance Research Projects Agency (DARPA). While some of these inventions have been a roaring success, some others are those that have to be watched out for.

 

1. The Internet

One of the greatest DARPA inventions is the internet. The whole world uses the internet which is used to connect with people in all parts of the world. In 1975, DARPA declared the internet project a success and the Defense Communications Agency took over its management. By 1980 most of today’s protocols such as TCP and IP were stable, and applied throughout ARPANET by 1983.

 

2. GPS

The global positioning system is another great DARPA invention. It is basically a precise positioning and navigation tool. Today the uses of GPS have encompassed both the commercial and the scientific worlds.

 

3. Speech translation

Real time interpersonal communication via natural spoken language between people who do not have a common language is made possible through this great invention of DARPA. It helped break communication barriers existing among people worldwide.

 

4. Stealth planes

This is another great invention of DARPA. Stealth aircraft make use of stealth technology to impede with radar detection and employ other methods to reduce visibility in the audio, visual and radio frequency spectrum. The development of this technology evolved in Germany during WWII.

 

5. Gallium arsenide

It was found that arsenic can be used for other purposes such as even to operate electronic items. However due to its environmental dangers this may not last long.

 



 

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7 Responses to “Top Ten DARPA Inventions”

  1. Soendoro Soetanto says:
    December 7, 2010 at 10:22 am

    Great List.

  2. Spoon says:
    December 7, 2010 at 11:41 am

    Interesting list and also wrong.
    DARPA DID NOT CREATE THE INTERNET!
    The man credited with it is an Englishman called Tim Berners-Lee
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Berners-Lee

    Stealth aircraft were not “invented” they evolved an early example being the English Dehaviland Mosquito from WWII that displayed low radar observability as did several German prototype aircraft.

    Exoskeletons, robot cars, wall climbing robots and supercavitation transport are all ideas that have been tinkered with by many countries for years so claiming that DARPA invented them is just wrong.

  3. luckycharms says:
    July 30, 2011 at 12:24 am

    He was credited for the World Wide Web, not the Internet. As it shows on the link you provided.

  4. Matt_D says:
    February 11, 2013 at 11:09 am

    “Stealth” is not limited merely to a small radar signature and is orders of magnitude removed from “low observability.” The Mosquito, the SR-71 and the B-2 bomber were “low observability.” Truth be told, so is the much-ballyhooed F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. The F-117, the first true “stealth” aircraft, WAS invented by DARPA.

  5. skulton says:
    March 1, 2013 at 10:46 pm

    THis i s so strange it is not like farming corn it is different.

  6. skulton says:
    March 1, 2013 at 10:49 pm

    Stealth technologies is cool and can be fun when apllied to killing the enemy. I like turtles :)

  7. skulton says:
    March 1, 2013 at 10:50 pm

    I thought it was so the tiome has driven back and now needs to be reset.

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