Inventions by your country/state

[Ribannah]

Originally posted by Adler17
Meucci wasn´t the inventor. As I reported in the said thread he had no witnesses and only a patent of later date. So it was Philipp Reis who should get the honour.

Reis' invention could not transport voice, so it wasn't a telephone by today's definition.

For the cannon and the printing it was indeed the Chinese, but in Europe these inventions were reinvented by German: Gutenberg and Berthold Schwarz, a monk.

No. Gutenberg bought the invention from Faust, an employee of Laurens Janszoon who had stolen it from his employer.

The telegraph was invented by Wilhelm Eduard Weber and Carl Friedrich Gauß in 1833.

You mean electromagnetic attempts based on the work of Schilling and Sommering (Prussia 1809). In that case, one could go back a lot further in history (mechanical semaphores, light, smoke). Morse was later than Wheatstone.

The first pocket watch was made by Peter Henlein in Nuremburg about 1510 (Sackuhr).

Only 'portable', and not very accurate.

The Automobile was invented by Carl Benz and Gottlieb Daimler in 1883.

Cugnot built a steam-powered automobile in 1771.

The first mobile telephone was introduced in 1927 in the trains from Hamburg to Berlin.

Only semi-mobile, they needed wires along the railroad track.

The Computer you mentioned are only some of which you could add or multiplicate, but the first real computer with binaire system was made by Zuse in 1941.

The abacus, any many later devices, were just as digital.

The first man in a motor plane was Gustav Weißkopf in 1901.

You didn't say 'motorized'! The first planes were gliders.

The windmills were invented in Persia about 900 AD.

They're much older than that, certainly of around 1 AD (Roman empire). But these had a vertical axis.

The boat Drebbel built in 1606 was only able to dive a few centimeter under the sea.

Actually it was 5 meters, quite enough to remain undetected.

The elliptical orbits of the sun were discovered by Johannes Kepler in 1609.

I believe it was Stevin who worked on the theory before Keppler but I can't find the right link. The proof was provided by Lippershey's telescope of 1608.

 

[Finmaster]

Originally posted by LouLong
- separation of powers (from Montesquieu) used (if only ) in the US.

It is "supposed" to be used in Finland too. Altough in reality, the justice court isn't *completely* separated from the government, as the domestic ministery is officially in charge of it's ability to work. But in reality the government has nothing to say to the decisions made by the court, so Montesquieu's separation of powers is used in Finland in that way.

And what has Locke got to do with it?! I've never heard that Locke would have talked about how the power to make laws, the power to judge and the power to execute, institute and organize should be divided from each other, I'm pretty sure that it was Montesquieu. Didn't Locke simply talk about how the power to the ruler is given by the people, not by God, so people can change the ruler, and so on..?

 

[Ribannah]

Originally posted by Finmaster
Inventions by Finland: Sauna

I believe the sauna is much older, and reached both Finland and North America from Asia.

 

[Finmaster]

Ribannah: Actually they say the same thing about traditional Finnish porrage, Talkkuna.. okay I have to admit that I'm not quite sure about it. Well, let's just say that the Finns brought sauna to Europe, that we can be sure of

 

[Ribannah]

Originally posted by yaroslav
Spain, for my own shame, has a strong record in the fields of the arts, but an ashaming record in the field of science. About invention, the only one very important is the submarine, but some of the earliest attemps of getting an helicopter workings were also done in Spain.

Spain didn't invent the Submarine, but they did invent the Lollipop.
And a new type of literature, by Cervantes, although his work was much more appreciated in England at the time IIRC.

 

[yaroslav]

Hey, Rib, how much time

The first electrian submarine that fired torpedoes was Spain, as far as I know

 

[Ribannah]

Originally posted by yaroslav
The first electrian submarine that fired torpedoes was Spain, as far as I know

Hi Yaroslav

Yes, it seems that it was the 'El Peral' of 1887 that was responsible.

 

[Adler17]

Reis invention worked like a normal telephone. The first sentence ever spoken is that horses don´t eat any salade (Pferde feressen keinen Gurkensalat).
Cugnot´s invention wasn´t really successful. Such a monster of machine I barely call that a car. Nevertheless the "modern" car is invented by Daimler and Benz.
Henleins watch was the first portable one and worked 40 hours.

Adler

 

[luiz]

Brazil:

-Self-powered airplane(the 14-Bis by Santos Dumont)
-Wrist-watches(again, by Santos Dumont)
-Mesons and other sub-atomic particles(actually, it was a 3 nationalities team: a brazilian, Cesar Lattes, and a italian and a japanese).
-Cachaça
-"Dental Floss" Bikinis

 

[Combat Ingrid]

Originally posted by Finmaster

Maybe skis? I don't know, but my history books tell me that it can't be even be measured how long the Finns have used wooden skis. There are German records from the 14th century of "Fenns" who fight in Swedish armies and who are using strange, long, wooden shoes to travel very quickly on snow, but it is believed that Finns have used skis a lot longer. Does anyone know for sure where skies originate from?

Sweden

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_skiing

"The first hints to the existence of skis are on 4500 to 5000 year old rock drawings, e.g. at Rødøy in Norway. There are also remains of skis in bogs, e.g. the oldest ski found in Hoting, Sweden, which is about 4500 years old.
The word ski goes back to two Old Norse roots, both older than 4500 years: saa and suk."

 

[privatehudson]

Well, the peninsula I live on has one of the early factories of Lever Brothers, the detergent and soap manufacturers. I think William Hesketh Lever was one of the earliest guys to produce soap not made using animal fats or something, ie it did not stink to high heaven

The hovercraft was also tested on the shores of the Wirral for the first time IIRC

 

[Ribannah]

Originally posted by Adler17
Reis invention worked like a normal telephone. The first sentence ever spoken is that horses don´t eat any salade (Pferde feressen keinen Gurkensalat).

It was spoken alright, but not received as intelligible voice. (And also, it could travel in one direction only.)

The "modern" car is invented by Daimler and Benz.
Henleins watch was the first portable one and worked 40 hours.

Portable, yes, but not in your pocket! Anyway, these are indeed inventions that you can claim for Germany.

 

[Ribannah]

Originally posted by privatehudson
Well, the peninsula I live on has one of the early factories of Lever Brothers, the detergent and soap manufacturers. I think William Hesketh Lever was one of the earliest guys to produce soap not made using animal fats or something, ie it did not stink to high heaven

In pre-historic times already, soap was made from plants like the Ceanothus (Soaproot).

 

[privatehudson]

Don't be pedantic

 

[Finmaster]

Originally posted by Combat Ingrid


Sweden

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_skiing

"The first hints to the existence of skis are on 4500 to 5000 year old rock drawings, e.g. at Rødøy in Norway. There are also remains of skis in bogs, e.g. the oldest ski found in Hoting, Sweden, which is about 4500 years old.
The word ski goes back to two Old Norse roots, both older than 4500 years: saa and suk."

Darn

I'd better just shut up when I don't know for sure

 

[Gladi]

Bright day
Quite a discussin, you have here
okay czech golden hands made:
Semtex- I do not know it is just one of a kind, but quite powefull
Soft contact lenses- Improvement of previous design, but what improvement!
Remoska cooker- hmm, hmm it looks like we have not made anything world shaking, anyways remoska is exported to GB
Laterna Magica- strange theatre...
Well most inventions are rather dubious. But when you take our size and history- very good . Go Czechs Go !!!
May all your days be bright.

 

[Ribannah]

What about Mendel's Law, and Kaplan's water turbine?

 

[Gladi]

Originally posted by Ribannah
What about Mendel's Law, and Kaplan's water turbine?

Bright day Ribannah!
Ah, oh, yes . It is especially strange that I forgot Mendel, when anytime I see him called German I start jumping around and screaming . And there was priest who made "that thing that catches lightining" aroung the same time as "that other guy"(wasn't he Thomas Jefferson?), but superstitious peasants broke it.
May all your days be very, super, extra bright.

 

[Sims2789]

Originally posted by LouLong
France :

- pasteurization
- vaccination (even if you don't like shots)
- first kind of photograph (Daguerrotype)
- first movie (the Lumiere brothers)
- first balloon (Mongolfier brothers)
- I believe (but I am not sure) we made the first airplane (before the US that is sure, about Germany I must say I had never heard about them).
- separation of powers (from Montesquieu) used (if only ) in the US.

Yes but did the French make the first manned airplane that did more then just hover for a split second a few feet off the ground? I know some guy made an unmanned airplane that worked, but the Wright Brother's ariplane was the first one that actually flew.

Oh, and here is a copy of the First Photograph:

 

[Adler17]

But Mendel WAS a German. He was born in Sielesia but only worked in Moravia. So he wasn´t a Bohemian.

Adler