America invented more things than ALL others combined.

[Red Stranger]

I've heard that America has invented more things than all other civilizations of all times combined. Is this true?

 

[Drewcifer]

No.

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[Atlas14]

Probably not.

 

[Kozmos]

Yes, why yes it is.

 

[GinandTonic]

I've heard that America has invented more things than all other civilizations of all times combined. Is this true?

You know every time I decide the knee-jerk America bashing is just becoming banal and predictable you reaffirm my world view if not, lamentably, my faith in human nature.

 

[Perfection]

It's true because of the simple fact that Thomas Edison has invented more then all other inventors combined.

 

[Leonel]

I'm afraid not. Unless your talking about useful things.

 

[Riesstiu IV]

If Red Stranger said it, then it must be true. By the way, when are you heading out to Kirkuk again?

 

[emzie]

Define invention. Hats that hold two cans of beer or just major things like the wheel.

 

[GinandTonic]

It's true because of the simple fact that Thomas Edison has invented more then all other inventors combined.

Including - little known fact - the anchovy.

 

[bhsup]

Actually, if my memory serves correctly, that distinction goes to the Hittites. They invented exactly 2,536,389,402 thingamajiggies during their reign in the ancient world.

 

[Riesstiu IV]

Did you know Hittites invented child abuse? Hence the "hit" in their title.

 

[Thorvald of Lym]

It's true because of the simple fact that Thomas Edison has invented more then all other inventors combined.

I'd wager that Thomas Edison also stole more inventions than all others.

 

[CaptainF]

Benjamin Franklin, as inventive as he was, was a bit too involved in pornography, wenches, and booze to invent more than the rest of humanity.

 

[Kozmos]

They also inevented the phrase 'Hit it' a popular phrase to encourage someone to rape, errm suprise sex someone.

 

[GoodSarmatian]

Yeah: Fire, bread, beer, the wheel, bronze weapons, iron weapons, the sail, compass, longbows, crossbows, chainmail, printing press...
How on earth can you think a country that has merely existed for three centuries has "invented" more than China, Greece, Persia and India combined ?

 

[emzie]

It's true because of the simple fact that Thomas Edison has invented more then all other inventors combined.

So true. There more than 5,500,000 patents filed in the US alone. Thomas Edison holds 3,000,000.

 

[Riesstiu IV]

They also inevented the phrase 'Hit it' a popular phrase to encourage someone to rape, errm suprise sex someone.

No wonder their neighbors, Assyria and Egypt, hated them. Dirty Hittites.

 

[Atlas14]

So true. There more than 5,500,000 patents filed in the US alone. Thomas Edison holds 3,000,000.

Many patents are mere minor improvements upon already existing inventions. Patents did not exist until a couple hundred years ago, so many of these minor improvements would have gone on undocumented. I highly doubt America has genuinely invented the most things.

 

[Thorvald of Lym]

Einstein approved the patent for the Toblerone bar.
1 überphysicist
+ 1 triangular chocolate bar
= 1 000 000 000 patents worth of patents.
YOU LOSE, USA!!