Inventions by your country/state

[Sims2789]

California:

The elements Berkelium(Bk), Californium(Cf) and Lawrencium(Lr).

USA:

The manned airplane(not the first to think of it but the first to make one), the nuclear bomb as well as baseball, football(non-Euro Football) and basketball.

 

[Mongoloid Cow]

Australia:

The feature film (before the first feature film was made in Australia (it was about Ned Kelly), all movies were divided into 5 minute parts called 'series')

The black box (the thingymajiggy in airplanes)

 

[Plexus]

Sorry to nitpick, Sims, but, Lawrencium does not have the highest atomic mass (That would be Ununhexium[116] [technically, Ununoctium, but a measure of its weight is yet to be achieved, IIRC.]), the first 'computer' was invented in 1623, the first digital computer was the ENIAC (1939) and the first PC or Personal Computer was not an Apple, but a Simon.

 

[amadeus]

http://www.blinkenlights.com/pc.shtml

Buzz! Sorry Sims, the Apple was not the first personal computer. Off by a long shot

 

[Adler17]

The first Computer was made by the young German inventor Konrad Zuse in 1941 in Berlin. It was his Z 3. This was even a few years agao accepted by the US who for a very long time said they had built the first computer.
Other German inventions: the car, the telephone, the Fax, the modern guided missiles and the rockets to the Zeppelin, the pocket watch, the cannon, the making of books (I don´t know the exact word for this made by Johannes Gutenberg), the first automatical "computer" by Wilhelm Schickard (1623), the bike, the telegraph, X rays, the plane, the mbile telephone.
Although some reades will ask me about some inventions, but indeed they all are German inventions. Some foreigner got only the fame for being the "first", but that´s not right. Before I write why they are German inventions you should research a bit of your own. There is even a thread here about one of these inventions. Not very long ago.

Adler

 

[Sims2789]

Originally posted by Plexus
Sorry to nitpick, Sims, but, Lawrencium does not have the highest atomic mass (That would be Ununhexium[116] [technically, Ununoctium, but a measure of its weight is yet to be achieved, IIRC.]), the first 'computer' was invented in 1623, the first digital computer was the ENIAC (1939) and the first PC or Personal Computer was not an Apple, but a Simon.

i meant personal computer, but i you're right that the Apple II wasn't the first one of those either. i didn't even know about the Simon until now.

 

[Sims2789]

the US invented the manned airplane, as we were the first to make one that flew. you can't give the Germans credit for it just becasue some German guy thought of it first. people have been thinking of flying for thousands of years.

 

[Ribannah]

Originally posted by Adler17
Other German inventions: the telephone, the cannon, the making of books, the mbile telephone.

Just to pick these 4 from your list, leaving the rest to others: none of them is German.

Telephone: USA (well, Italian immigrant: Meucci)
Cannon: China
Printing Press: Netherlands (Laurens Janszoon Koster: lead) / Korea (copper) / China (clay; Pi Sheng: woodblocks)
Mobile telephone: USA (Bell company)

 

[Ribannah]

Originally posted by Sims2789
California:

The elements Berkelium(Bk), Californium(Cf) and Lawrencium(Lr).

Those are discoveries, not inventions!

USA:
The manned airplane

That should be: England (Sir George Cayley)

 

[Ribannah]

Fax - England (Bain)
(Modern) Bicycle - France (without pedals: Mede de Sivrac, with: Michaux team)
Pocket watch - Netherlands (Huygens)
Telegraph - England (Wheatstone)
Automobile - France (Cugnot)
Computer - Babylon (digital) / Greece (analog)

 

[Knight-Dragon]

Originally posted by Ribannah
Printing Press: Netherlands / Korea

The printing press shld be Chinese...

 

[#1 Person]

CT.
Cotton Jin (It is not a drink)
Colt revolving gun
Atomic Subs
Regular Subs
Attack helicopters

 

[Ribannah]

Originally posted by XIII
The printing press shld be Chinese...

Added some details ...

 

[Ribannah]

Some inventions by the Dutch

- Artificial heart
- Audio cassette
- Central Bank
- Cocoa Powder
- Coffee Shop
- Compact Disc
- Corporation
- Decimal fractions
- Econometrics
- Electro-cardiograph
- Elliptical orbits
- Kidney machine
- Microscope
- Nylon
- Open hearth
- Pendulum clock
- Pocket watch
- Polder
- Printing Press
- Probability Theory
- Stamppot
- Stock Exchange
- Submarine
- Telescope
- Topology
- Wave Theory of Light
- Windmills (various types)

 

[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.
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.
The telegraph was invented by Wilhelm Eduard Weber and Carl Friedrich Gauß in 1833. But it was Morse who made it popular.
The first pocket watch was made by Peter Henlein in Nuremburg about 1510 (Sackuhr).
The Automobile was invented by Carl Benz and Gottlieb Daimler in 1883. Also the motrobike was invented by Daimler.
The first mobile telephone was introduced in 1927 in the trains from Hamburg to Berlin. In 1946 indeed the US made another attempt but the telephones used were gigantic. 18 kg and only time for eigh minutes to speak. The first "real" net was introduced in Germany 1972.
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 first man in a motor plane was Gustav Weißkopf in 1901. The Wrights were indeed only the 3rd who were able to fly: A few month earlier a Prussian official, whose name I unfortuantely forgot, was able to fly.
The windmills were invented in Persia about 900 AD.
The boat Drebbel built in 1606 was only able to dive a few centimeter under the sea. The Brandtaucher by Wilhelm Bauer in 1850 was able to dive much deeper and should be considered as first sub. The first real successful used subs indeed were used by the CSA in the American Civil War.
The elliptical orbits of the sun were discovered by Johannes Kepler in 1609.
Addition: The Electroencephalogramm was invented by the German Hans Berger in 1929.

Adler

 

[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.

 

[Marla_Singer]

I thought it was someone called Graham Bell who invented the phone. Well anyway, that proves the limit of this thread. In most of case, a discovery or an invention is the result of efforts coming from several countries.

The Airplane is certainly a good example of it. We can say the first flight of the Wright Brothers is more a spring than a real flight (852 feet, less than the breadth of a 747). They didn't succeed to truely maintain their vehicle in the air. As it took time, when did it really occure ? It's more an evolution than something that had come in one day and the improvements came from people coming from several countries. According to me, most of recent inventions or discoveries have been made by people and not countries... or maybe by the Western Civilization but it's not even really true since Japan contributed in many of the most recent inventions.

Who discovered radioactivity ? Undoubtedly it's Marie Curie... but which country ? Is it France because she discovered it in Paris at the Institut Pasteur with her husband ? Or is it Poland because she was originally born there and we don't care she became French once she get married with that Pierre Curie guy ? To me, it doesn't really matter. It's about the same than the debate about Einstein's discoveries... Swiss or German ? English or American ?

 

[Marla_Singer]

Loulong ! You've forgotten the steam engine invented by Papin !
You should never underestimate the genius of that soccer player.

Well anyway, Separation of powers could be considered as something coming from Locke. About planes, it's about like asking who invented the first rail or cars. And in some way Lumière didn't invent anything since movies are just a derived thing from photography. You could find several scientists that has inspired Pasteur and say they are actually the guys that invented pastorization or vaccination, etc...

 

[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.

 

[Finmaster]

Inventions by Finland:

Sauna (altough Swedes have also tried to claim this, because Finland was under Swedish rule when sauna was invented here)

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?

Adam Smith's theories. A Finn called Antti Chydenius wrote the exact same things that Smith did 100 years before Smith's time. Altough those thoughts were only translated to Swedish, so they didn't become very well known outside the Swedish Kingdom.. I wonder if Smith spoke Swedish?

..And according to Innofin.com, these are also Finnish inventions:

-Icebreaker

-Xsylitol

-The machine that measures how fast your heart beats.

-Recently lots of inventions that have developed mobile phones (Nokia..)