Inventions by your country/state

[Ebitdadada]

Originally posted by Mongoloid Cow
Ebitdadada: of those you mentioned, only Civ 1, 2 and 3 aren't evil. *shudders at the Cabbage Patch Kids*

What's wrong with the 777, the Pentium processor or the Atholon processor?

And what's wrong with my mouse pad? KLJ Solutions is a quality company!

 

[Ebitdadada]

Originally posted by privatehudson
Actually I do, the British have invented an awful lot, the difference is that we don't have the money or industry to actually make proper use of the inventions we do make. This means they are often "sold" as such to the highest bidder or passed to other friendly countries such as the US. Also, when I last heard that figure mentioned it was 65% of modern inventions were either "British" or relied entirely on an invention that was British to make it possible, which again is another matter.

I'll bet if I use the same method that that statistic was calculated with I could say that the nations of world added up were reasponsible 1000% of the worlds inventions .

Britain has always been a very inventive country and if the figure was between 1750 and 1850 i'd belieive you. But with 50 million people that's just not possible. Also, if you look at globabl pattents, well lets just say Britain does not hold 65% of them. I'm a big fan of Britain but that's quite a streatch.

 

[privatehudson]

I'll bet if I use the same method that that statistic was calculated with I could say that the nations of world added up were reasponsible 1000% of the worlds inventions

Quit your eye rolling, I was correcting what the stat referred to, not saying that it was a good way of analysing these things

Also, if you look at globabl pattents, well lets just say Britain does not hold 65% of them. I'm a big fan of Britain but that's quite a streatch.

Probably because we give our inventions to others to patent then I'd personally think in the modern era (ie post 19th century) would be a more accurate description. Then you've got the whole who invented the "real thing" first idea which confuses the issue even further. I suspect that the figure refers more to specific inventions rather than patents which isn't quite the same thing.

 

[Manverulin]

Canadian Inventions:
acrylics (Plexiglas/Perspex/Lucite) - William Chalmers
antigravity suit - Wilbur R. Franks (1940)
basketball - James Naismith (1892)
dental mirror
disintegrating plastic
ear piercer
electrical car (North America's first)
electric wheelchair - George J. Klein
electron microscope - Prof. E. F. Burton and Cecil Hall, James Hillier and Albert Prebus (late 1930s)
five pin bowling - Thomas E. Ryan (1909)
foghorn - Robert Foulis (1854)
garbage bag (green plastic) - Harry Wasyluk and Larry Hanson (1950s)
gingerale - John J. McLaughlin (1904)
goalie mask - Jacques Plante (1959)
Green ink - Thomas Sterry Hunt (1862)
hair tonic
heart valve operation (first)
IMAX - Grahame Ferguson, Roman Kroitor, Robert Kerr (1968)
insulin (as diabetes treatment) - Dr. Frederick Banting, Dr. Charles Best and Dr. Collip (1921)
Java - James Gosling
kerosene - Abraham Gesner (1840)
lacrosse - played since the 1600s; William George Beers set out standard rules (1860)
lightbulb (first patented) - Henry Woodward (1874)
newsprint - Charles Fenerty (1838)
pacemaker - Wilfred Bigelow
paint roller - Norman Breakey (1940)
panoramic camera - John Connon (1887)
snowblower - Arthur Sicard (1927)
snowmobile - Joseph-Armand Bombardier (1937)
standard time - Sir Sanford Fleming (1879)
Walkie-Talkie - Donald L. Hings (1942)
washing machine
zipper - Gideon Sundback (1913)

oh, and the ever infamous...
eh?