Inventions by your country/state

[Mongoloid Cow]

India invented 'Arabic' Numerals... that theory down the drain.

 

[Ribannah]

And even worse, India invented the .... zero.

Originally posted by Sims2789
Did the Iroquois actuallt vote for their parlament, or were the members appointed by the chieftan?

The women nominated, the men voted.

But wasn't the status of chieftan hereditary?

The status of chieftain was not hereditary. However, a good chieftain raised the status of his family, and the candidates were primarily chosen from families with a high status. Much like present-day USA, I'd say.
It was by no means a certainty though, representatives were also chosen on personal merits. And if a representative functioned badly he would be replaced.

 

[DoubleT]

Denmark:

Well Lego's comes from Denmark lol

 

[delsully]

Originally posted by RagingBarbarian
there is very strong evidence that some of the first beers were brewed in Armenia.

Egyptians brewed beer first.

 

[Laughing Gull]

"the chronic" was invented in California sometime in the early 90's. the rest is a very fuzzy history

 

[allhailIndia]

On a side note, Indians also invented plastic surgery aone and a half centuries before anybody else even dared to think about it


So Madonna can send her best wishes to us, through oh say, a live concert

 

[Androrc]

Brazil: The airplane.

 

[{faa}Dario]

Some inventions from argentina:

The Bus:
Ball Point (Pen)
sweet milk;
Roast meet;
Churrasco (like a hamburger but with "roast meet")
The ByPass( quirurgic technique in medicine)

And all others military sciences in 1948 under development of Juan Peron, but as always happens, the Usa government cancels all this projects and then the Usa scientist take them as their "invention". Anyways this happened in th history of the humannity

 

[Stapel]

All I have to add to this thread is that I am very happen the Americans are willing to share with me their best Invention ever:

The Pizza!

 

[CurtSibling]

The UK has too many to list - Here is a good A-Z guide!

http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/bl_british_inventors.htm

Some British innovations:

Fax Machine - Alexander Bain
Penicillin - Alexander Fleming
Television - John Logie Baird
Internal Combustion Engine - Samuel Brown
Jet Engines - Sir Frank Whittle

We account for 65% of inventions since 1945!

 

[Adler17]

Well the jet engine was also developed by Hans von Ohain. So both should be credited.

Adler

 

[Androrc]

Originally posted by Stapel
All I have to add to this thread is that I am very happen the Americans are willing to share with me their best Invention ever:

The Pizza!

The pizza is Italian...

 

[Stapel]

Originally posted by Androrc



The pizza is Italian...

What? Get real!

We all know the Pizza was invented by Italian immigrants in the USA .

 

[MattII]

New Zealand
Tranquiliser Gun - Colin Murdoch - 1959
Thermette - John Hart - 1929
Seismic Isolators - Dr. Bill Robinson
Vacreator - Lamont Murray and Frank Board - 1923
Childproof Lids - Claudio Petronelli (Ita. Expat) - 1970
HTML - Steve Outtrim - 1995

 

[Ebitdadada]

USA

Inventions, Just to name a few that you can't argue about, well you probably could if you really tried and were willing to make some pretty convoluted arguments.

The Chevy Nova
The Pentium Processor
The AMD Atholon (or whatever the heck its called) processor
Civilization 1, 2, and 3
Derivitives (this one isn't even a Joke!) (not the calculus thing, the security thing)
The X Box
The Thinkpad
The Real World (a TV show)
The 747 Aircraft
The 777 Aircraft
The B2 Stealth Bomber
The F-15 Eagle
The Cabage Patch Kids
Windows 3.0, 95, 98, Millenium Edition, 2000, 2000 Profesional, XP, XP Profesional
The phrase "Think outside of the Box"
The phrase "Like, Whatever"
Charmin Toilit Paper
Mouse pads that say Kadrmas Lee & Jackson, www.kljeng.com on them.

 

[Ebitdadada]

Originally posted by CurtSibling
The UK has too many to list - Here is a good A-Z guide!

http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/bl_british_inventors.htm

Some British innovations:

Fax Machine - Alexander Bain
Penicillin - Alexander Fleming
Television - John Logie Baird
Internal Combustion Engine - Samuel Brown
Jet Engines - Sir Frank Whittle

We account for 65% of inventions since 1945!

You are incorect.

I invented the Internal Combustion engine in 1820. I also invented the Jet Engine in 1935 and my friend Bob invented the Fax Machine one day in 1958.

That said do you really think its possible that the UK accounts for 65% of inventions since 1945?

 

[Mongoloid Cow]

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

 

[privatehudson]

That said do you really think its possible that the UK accounts for 65% of inventions since 1945?

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.

 

[crystal]

I thought for a long time and finally recalled these:

IRC - Jarkko Oikarinen
Linux - Linus Torvalds

Nearly all of our inventions are from modern era because Finland is a relatively young country. Btw, shame on you if don't know what those two inventions are!

 

[Julius Gandi]

Frank Lloyd Wright, famous architect from Appleton Wisconsin, you should see some of the homes he designed. They are amazing, way ahead of his time.