What did your country discover/invent?

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A few starters for arguing over:


Australia Boomerang.

Basque Underwear and Whale Hunting

Canada Blueberry Muffins, Ice Hockey, Penicillin

China Fireworks, Gunpowder

England Gravity, Nuclear Power, Radar, Steam Ship, Steam Train, Train, Stratigraphy

Finland Mobile Phones (modern), Sauna

France Bicycle, Flight (Balloon), Lighthouse Lense

Germany Motor Car, Poison Gas, Printing Press, Rockets (modern)

Greece Democracy

Holland Elliptical Orbits, Submarines

Hungary Rubik Cube & Soft Contact Lenses

India War Elephant, Zero (the number not the fighter)

Indonesia Puppet Theatre (Shadows)

Ireland Limericks

Israel Monotheism (Jehovah)

Italy Central Heating, Imperialism, Pizza, Telecope

Japan Suicide Bombing, Total Quality

Mongolia Hordes, Paper Money

Portugal Caravel

Russia Communism, Space Flight

Scotland Capitalism (Adam Smith)

Spain Bombing Cities (Guernica)

Sweden Peace prices (Nobel)

Switzerland Neutrality, Red Cross, Selling Holes In Cheese

Thailand Kites, Siamese Twins

United States Electricity, Flight (powered), Iron Clad, TCP/IP, Television

Wales Long Bow
 
When it comes to the U.S., its more like "What DIDNT your contry invent" :lol:
 
In 1895 Guglielmo Marconi (ITALY) invented Radio...
 
Sweden Peace prices (Nobel)
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Well, talking about Nobel and not mentioning the Dynamite...;)

Sweden:
Zipper
Refrigerator (the modern one without moving parts)
Safety matches
Propeller
Milking machine
Separator

I also think that the founder of Ericsson was the first to invent the switchboard or some type of it (the automatic one maybe?) and that a Swede designed one of the first warships, used in the American civil war.
 
Poland

-Heliocentrism (Copernicus)
-Radium, Polonium - two radioactive elements
-Kerosene (paraffin) lamp
-Reverse Polish Notation - writing arithmetic expressions like that: ab+c/de–* which actually means (a+b)/c*(d–e). It's useful in programming.
 
[arrogance]Pretty much everything.[/arrogance] :p :D
 
Canada invented the zipper, and

Basketball
electron microscope
Peacekeepers

And as for India, after the British came there with their wonderful Calculus, the local "heathen" taught them how to improve on their method significantly
 
Finland... the Molotov's Cocktail. At least the name for it. It was our main antitank weapon in the Winter War, together with birch logs.
 
Denmark... eh... extensive liver damage... and, eh, polite nationalism :ack:


Uh, eh, and 'Remoulade' a type of "tartar sauce".
 
Blitzkrieg, industrial mass extinction, marching in lockstep and Curry sausage.

All invented by people though, not by the country.
 
Brazil

-Flight without the help of catapults, by Santos Dumont
-Mesons and other sub-atomic particles, by César Lattes(he was actually part of team that also had a japanese and a italian scientist)
-Decent football ;) (we were the first to win the World Cup 3 times, and the only to win it 4 and 5 times)
 
I just heart on the tv news we discovered bio / chem weapons in southern Iraq (serious).

Other Dutch discoveries:
CD (player)
marines
klap skate
Total football
 
Romania:

Conrad Haas (1509-1579) - introduces the notion of "rocket". Discovers the principle of multi-stage rockets.

Petrache Poenaru (1799-1875) - inventor of the gas light bulb. Developed a machine to determine the transparence of mediums.

Nicolae Vasilescu-Karpen (1870-1964) - invented the fuel cell

George (Gogu) Constantinescu (1881-1964) - invented the automatic gear box for automobiles

Henri Coanda (1886-1972) - builds the first jet aircraft, in co-operation with Bristol Aircrafts, discovers the "Coanda" effect (fluids tend to adhere better to convex surfaces) - vital for aeronautics.

Traian Vuia (1872-1950) - developed the first heavier than air aircraft to take off with it's own strength (no catapult, wheeled landing gear).

Hermann Oberth (1894-1980) - pioneer of rocket propulsion. The V2 rocket used 95 of his patents and suggestions.

Nicolae Paulescu (1869-1831) - the inventor of Insulin, robbed of a Nobel prize (he patented a substance called "pancreine" in april 1922, in 1923 two canadians received the prize for the same discovery). Ambivalent character, generally condemned to obscurity because of a few anti-semitic papers published in the 1920es.

Edit: Almost forgot about George Emil Palade (1912 - ?) - described the functions of sub-cellular structures - received a Nobel for it in 1947
 
France:

  • High-class restaurants
  • Mechanical Calculators (Descarte)
  • Real wine
  • Virus, vaccination and pasteurisation (Pasteur)
  • Several thousand sorts of cheeses
  • Radioactivity (Pierre & Marie Curie)
  • Foie-gras
  • Qualitiative dynamics and topology (Poincaré)
  • Proper cooking
 
Originally posted by EdwardTking

Israel Monotheism (Jehovah)
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Actually, monotheism was invented by the egyptian pharaoh(sp) Akenaton, who preached that the only god was Aton(the Sun Sphere). This caused the anger of the priests of Amon, and Akenaton ended killed and polytheism was restored.
 
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