What did your country discover/invent?

didnt denmark come out of the vikings?? and what about england? france?
 
Originally posted by phoenix_night
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.
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But if Scotland couldn't provide Bell with the means of inventing the telephone, how can the whole nation take credit for it?

It's like I've said about Canadians in Hollywood, Canada gets no credit (or inthe case of Jim Carrey, blame) for their work.

Also, many Canadians claim that basketball is a Canadian invention, but I disagree. It was a Canadian expat in the USA who invented it. By the same reasoning, we'd have to credit the British for inventing (ice) hockey.

So we can only keep one of basketball or hockey, and I say we keep hockey, because though it was invented by Brits, it was invented in our country, due to conditions in our country and it was cultivated in our country. Which is the same reasoning why I say we can land claim to the telephone. If Scotland insists on sharing it because it was one of their expats who did it, then perhap swe can share the credit.

BTW, Bell was English educated I believe...
 
Who invented the telephone? Bell, a Scot. Scotland wins. I don't see any reasonable grounds for complaint. He didn't have the tools in Scotland? So what? The country he was in at the time is irrelevant. Scotland produced the telephone.

Surely it is Bell and not the tools he had at his disposal that invented the telephone.
 
lol
acaly some one invented the phone one monthe befor him!!! but he was slow to paten it, and got the paten on hour after bell.... :( so it was an american!! just that he dint get the patent until and hour after bell, so bell one when thay whent to cort over it..
 
Norway... what did we invent?
We claim to have invented the aerosol can and the paperclip. I believe both were invented somewhere else.

One thing I know we invented, is the cheese cutter (planer version). Paradoxically, pre-cut cheese is becoming a bestseller, along with jam on a flask.

I know we invented a lot of ski-affilated stuff too.
 
Originally posted by lceman
Holland was not the nation of origin of the inventor of the submarine. John Phillips Holland, the inventor of the submarine was Irish. He invented the submarine after leaving Ireland to emmigrate to the United States. The Submarine was invented in 1881, in New Jersey (USA).
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So how can it be that the Dutch (Cornelius van Drebbel) already built one in 1620 AD? :)
 
Originally posted by jack merchant
A few more Dutch ones:

- the microscope, invented by Anthonie van Leeuwenhoek in the early 17th century, revolutionizing biology
- the corporation, the United Eastindies Company being the first of its kind (also early 17th century) and as a corollary:
- the stock exchange - the Amsterdam exchange similarly going back to 1602.
- the concept of international law (arguably) by Hugo Grotius

and last but not least:

- the coffee shop :smoke:
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The (compound) microscope was invented by Zacharias Janssen (also Dutch) in 1590.

Btw, my uncle worked on the invention of the CD!

A few more Dutch inventions:

- Artificicial heart
- Audio cassette
- Compact Disc
- Econometrics
- Electro-cardiograph
- Kidney machine
- Nylon
- Open hearth
- Printing Press
- Stamppot :)
- Telescope
- Windmills (various types)
 
Originally posted by Ohwell
No, I'm pretty sure that goes to the US of A... :ack:

If not, then we surely proliferated it into what it is now.
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Actually, it was the Dutch who started reality television. But if you insist upon paying for it...
 
Inventions made in Québec:
The Snowmobile by Joseph-Armand Bombardier
The Snowblower by Arthur Sicard
The Goalie mask by Jacques Plante of the Montréal Canadiens
I'm sure there's more but I'm too lazy to check it out.
 
Originally posted by luiz


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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How about this...

Israel: Judaism (sp?), Circumcition (another sp?)
 
According to a site I found Switzerland lays claim to the following inventions:

- Meringues
- Alphorn (after 1300)
- Amish People (Jakob Ammann, 1693)
- Fondue (1699)
- Symbol "e„ (Leonhard Euler, 1727/36)
- Bernoulli's law; Kinetic gas theory (Daniel Bernoulli, 1738)
- Symbol "i" (Leonhard Euler, 1777)
- Optical lenses (Pierre-Louis Guinand, around 1810)
- Cough-tablets (Emanuel Wybert for the Golden Pharmacy, Basel, GABA, 1846)
- Red Cross (Jean Henri Dunant, 1864)
- Blue cross (Louis-Lucien Rochat, 1877)
- DNA Desoxyribonucleic Acid (Friedrich Miescher, 1869)
- Bag-soups and soup-spice (Julius Maggi, 1886)
- Swiss Army Knife; later "Victorinox" (Karl Elsener, 1891: Patent 1897)
- Ovomaltine" (Hiking Albert, 1904)
- Cellophane (Jacques Edwin Brandenberger, after 1900; 1908)
- aluminium foil (Company Alusuisse, 1912)
- Ink blot test (Hermann Rorschach, 1921)
- Term “Mach number” (Jakob Ackeret, 1927)
- Theory of Supernovae (Fritz Zwicky, 1933)
- Cortisone (Tadeus Reichstein, simultaneously with Edward Calvin Kendall, 1936)
- "Nescafé" (Max Morgenthaler, 1938)
- LSD (Albert Hofmann, 1938)


Also if the nation where something is invented gets the credit no matter what the nationality of the inventor we can also lay claim on:

- Soda water (the German Jacob Schweppe in Geneva, 1783)
- Fuel cell (the German Christian Friedrich Schoenbein in Basel, 1838)
- General Theory of Relativity (Albert Einstein, of Ulm, 1905)
- First diesel locomotive (the German Rudolf at Sulzer, 1912; Borsig in Germany 1912)
- LCD-display (the two German physicists Wolfgang Helfrich and Martin Schadt at Roche in Basel, 1968/70)
- WWW (the English Tim Berners-Lee and the Belgian Robert Cailliau, at CERN in Geneva, 1991)
 
- Ovomaltine" (Hiking Albert, 1904)
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Most positive for all human-kind. :goodjob: :goodjob:
 
Originally posted by phoenix_night


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.
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I think the source of the debate on this subject comes from the fact that Europe and North America have different concepts of nationality. In Europe it is more about blood and birth; because North America was mostly peopled by immigrants any ex-pat who lives here long enough is considered one of us by most of the rest. In this sense both countries have plausible claims on the telepone by their own definitions. This is my impression anyway, perhaps I misunderstand how national identity works in Europe.
 
Originally posted by phoenix_night


Actually, it was the Dutch who started reality television. But if you insist upon paying for it...
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We can argue for a year on what reality TV exactly is....

But in the summer of 1999 (I think), a Dutch TV channel life broadcasted the interesting :mischief: lifes of 9 people locked up in a villa, well equipped with cameras.
 
My country invented the Bessemer Process :D
 
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