What did your country discover/invent?

Originally posted by PantheraTigris2
Well, I've seen in this thread - a Scot, & a Canadian say they invented the telephone. Actually, Bell was born in Scotland, moved to Canada, and then settled in the U.S., before starting his career as an inventor. So, that'll be quite enough of other countries trying to hijack our invention(s).
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Nice try PT2, but he was working on the telephone long before emmigrating to the USA.

In his own words, whilst addresing the House of Commons in Ottawa, he clearly states that he invented it here.

:p
 
Denmark:
- The Sub-atomic Quantum Theory (Niels Bohr)
- "The Doctrine of Surviving as a Country with Germany as your only Neighbour" (a.k.a. "The Surrender First, Ask Questions Later Doctrine")
- LEGO
- The Theory of the Speed of Light (Ole Rømer)
- The star catalog (Tycho Brahe 1572)
- The tape recorder (magnetic steel tape, Valdemar Poulsen, 1899)

... ehm... that's pretty much it.
 
@sysyphus and PT2:

Bell was a Scot.

Nice try but we invented the telephone, lads. :lol:

You guys merely try and steal the glory!
 
Originally posted by Drewcifer
Foie-gras was invented by the Romans.
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Didn't know that. I honestly thought it was French. Not that I care much ;)

Originally posted by Drewcifer
It is well known by those in the cooking profession outside of France that the birth of French haute cuisine came when the chefs of the Medicis were lured away from Italy to work in Versailles. The bit about it rising up from the humble peasant food is nationalistic claptrap rather than fact.
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:lol: That was supposed to be a joke, you know ;) For that matter, the Chinese had restaurants long before France, and their cooking is worth ours IMHO. As for inventing "proper cooking", it all depends on your national tastes. A brit might object that they invented Fish & Chips and claim the prize. :ack: Or even worst, a German for whom "proper cooking" means wurst... :vomit:
 
Oh, and Bering, who was Danish, discovered the Bering Strait...
 
Belgium:

*Belgian Leo Baekeland invented Bakelite in 1907.

*Adolphe Sax invented the Saxophone

*Mercator map projection was invented by Belgian map maker Gerardus Mercator as a navigation tool.

*Belgian chemist, Ernest Solvay invented the industrial process for sodium carbonate production.

*Modern medicine began in 1543 with the publication of the first complete textbook of human anatomy, "De Humanis Corporis Fabrica" by Belgian physician Andreas Vesalius.

*Modern road asphalt was the work of Belgian immigrant Edward de Smedt

*Joseph Plateau, inventor of the stroboscope

*Jean Baptiste "Django" Reinhardt, inventor of the two-finger guitar playing technique

*Jean Joseph Etienne Lenoir, inventor of the internal-combustion engine

*Charles Van Depoele, inventor of the electric railway

*Zénobe Gramme, inventor of the Gramme dynamo

*Constant Loiseau, inventor of the optometer

*the worlds first stock exchange was in Antwerp

*the classic= WE INVENTED FRENCH FRIES!!
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Scottish colonists in the USA invented the Klu Klutz Klan.

Nothing to be proud of, but there you go.
 
Curt, wasn't Adam Smith Scottish?
So, there you go, he was the first to define capitalism, the most succesful and influencial economic system in the modern history of mankind...
 
Originally posted by Ossric
the worlds first stock exchange was in Antwerp
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Hmm, Jack Merchant sais it was in Amsterdam...... since 1602.

Just curious!

IMHO, the single most top number one brilliant Belgian invention is: De Koninck .

Also, I suspect the Belgians to have invented cycling spring classics.



Furthermore: Belgium only exists since 1830 ;)
 
Originally posted by CurtSibling
@sysyphus and PT2:

Bell was a Scot.

Nice try but we invented the telephone, lads. :lol:

You guys merely try and steal the glory!
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All Bell ever did in Scotland was drink. It was only upon his arrival in Canada where he began to invent. In the hometown of Wayne Gretzky nonetheless.

James Watt was however Scottish through and through, so you may keep the Steam Engine (though Watt didn't quite invent it, but it was only on paper before, he made it actually happen).

My girlfriend is a descendant of his.

Canada was invented by a Scot as well, Sir John A. MacDonald. So there you go Curt, it's all your country's fault. :p
 
Originally posted by Stapel
Furthermore: Belgium only exists since 1830 ;)
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Denmark is the only country that has always been independent (in known history, Denmark has always existed, albeit of varying sizes). :p
 
Furthermore: Belgium only exists since 1830 ;)
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well yes, but the people that lived on the same soil are from the same origin sort of speak. They are our anscesters, it doesn't matter who actually ruled us. ;)

the first stock exchange building in Antwerp was constructed in 1531
 
Originally posted by insurgent


Denmark is the only country that has always been independent (in known history, Denmark has always existed, albeit of varying sizes). :p
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Except for in the 1940's. BUt other than WWII your are right denmark is pretty old.
 
Originally posted by CurtSibling
@sysyphus and PT2:

Bell was a Scot.

Nice try but we invented the telephone, lads. :lol:

You guys merely try and steal the glory!
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Damn right. The telephone goes to Scotland. I really don't care where he might have been living at any particular point in his life.

Scotland gave us Bell, Scotland gave us the telephone.
 
we invented the Atari!!!!!!!! the fist great gameing system ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! we allso invented et :(
 
we invented the fist pratical tv, thay had the mechanical tv, useing some big spining thing, the picture was much beater or the eltronic one
 
Originally posted by Kilroy

Uh, how you would get the idea that I'd want to give Hungary the credit for it right after I got through saying that the home country does not get credit for it is beyond me.
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Oh yeah - nevermind, I was reading too fast I suppose.
 
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