What did your country discover/invent?

[superslug]

Originally posted by Jorge
We discovered America, and then we invented la siesta and la fiesta and that's it.

Uh, sorry, you rediscovered America. I'm not all that familiar on the latest evidence about the Viking(?) visitation theories, but there were already people here.

I'm not trying to knock you or be picky, but the telephone posts do set a rather high standard of review for all claims to be upheld to.

 

[sysyphus]

Originally posted by Jorge
...and then we invented la siesta and la fiesta and that's it.

That may be it, but they are the two best inventions of them all!

 

[Japanrocks12]

Japan started the video game console rush

 

[Ribannah]

Originally posted by addiv
No, the German Gutenberg was earlier.

The invention was stolen from the Dutch inventor Laurens Janszoon Koster and then sold to Gutenberg.

About the stock exchange, you could argue they already existed in 13th century Bruges, where investing in (trading-)companies was already a common practice.

Investing in companies is much older than that, and so are stocks, but the new thing was an exchange to trade the stocks.

And one more: the (modern, as used in chemistry classes etc.) gas-burner is a Dutch invention (co-invented by my grandfather btw).

 

[Ribannah]

Originally posted by superslug
Uh, sorry, you rediscovered America. I'm not all that familiar on the latest evidence about the Viking(?) visitation theories, but there were already people here.

The first people to discover America were indeed the people who crossed the Bering Landbridge / Street.

 

[Ribannah]

Originally posted by Drewcifer
In US schools it is taught that Eli Whitney invented interchangeable parts in Connecticut in the 1780's for the manufacture of muskets.

I believe that was in 1803. Before that, Eli Whitney invented the Cotton Gin.
http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi1252.htm

 

[addiv]

Originally posted by Ribannah
The invention was stolen from the Dutch inventor Laurens Janszoon Koster and then sold to Gutenberg.

That's new to me, I know this Koster fellow but I didn't know Gutenberg got the idea (indirectly) from him. Gutenberg was the first to build a printing press though, wasn't he?

Investing in companies is much older than that, and so are stocks, but the new thing was an exchange to trade the stocks.
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Trading stocks was also done in Bruges, but the stock exchange as a building, purposedly built for that practice, wasn't there yet. In that respect the first Stock Exchange indeed was established in the 16th century.

 

[Ribannah]

Originally posted by addiv
That's new to me, I know this Koster fellow but I didn't know Gutenberg got the idea (indirectly) from him. Gutenberg was the first to build a printing press though, wasn't he?

No, Koster built one, and printed the book 'Speculum Humanæ Salvationis' on it. He then hired a number of assistents and one of them, Johannes Faust, stole everything from his master's shop in 1441 and fled to Mainz.

(Of course we are hereby ignoring the fact that Korea had already invented a different type of the printing press somewhat earlier.)

 

[Grille]

Originally posted by superslug


Uh, sorry, you rediscovered America. I'm not all that familiar on the latest evidence about the Viking(?) visitation theories, but there were already people here.

Yep, since there were already people there, that's all a matter of the point of view (in general). At some point, Europe was "discovered" then, etc etc etc

I'm not trying to knock you or be picky, but the telephone posts do set a rather high standard of review for all claims to be upheld to.

Spoilsport.

 

[Vietcong]

Originally posted by Japanrocks12
Japan started the video game console rush

im sorry but no, america did. dont u rember Atari, Odyssye, or Intelivision?? all of thes whear american, thes whear realy big back in the late 70's and early 80's with such games as pong, space invaders, pix ax peat, pac man ect. sadly ther was the video game crash of 1983..

any way, the fist realy popurler game out for sell and that realy changed the way games became so popurler was acaly pong, the game with the 2 padels and a ball that bonces inbetween them.
y this game? it was so popurler when it fist came out, atari, decited to creat the atari gameing sytems. it was the game that sprong borded the gameing industry. now advitaly games whold have becam popurler like thay are today with or with our pong, but it whold have taken a much longer time, and whold probly not have coght on so quicly as it did.

 

[Sims2789]

Originally posted by Stapel


Excuse me?

You just won a single ticket to Siberia! I really wonder you will ever learn. I am affraid this is a classical case of a hopeless situation.

Bah! Hi, I am from the USA, we invented football

i meant American Football. i wasn't talking about Soccer.

 

[Stapel]

Originally posted by sims2789


i meant American Football. i wasn't talking about Soccer.

Another five years

 

[Jorge]

Originally posted by superslug


Uh, sorry, you rediscovered America. I'm not all that familiar on the latest evidence about the Viking(?) visitation theories, but there were already people here.

I'm not trying to knock you or be picky, but the telephone posts do set a rather high standard of review for all claims to be upheld to.

Bah, who cares about America? That was the less important of the three