What did your country discover/invent?

A Swedish inventor, Håkan Lans, invented colour graphics for computer monitors.

He is also often wrongly credited for the computer mouse when in fact it was a US-dude, Douglas Engelbart, who invented that one in 63-64.
 
Originally posted by Stapel
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.
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I've seen at least two USA SF movies featuring reality tv, including one with Arnold Schwarzenegger, so please take it off the Dutch list! ;) :crazyeye:
 
Originally posted by Ribannah


I've seen at least two USA SF movies featuring reality tv, including one with Arnold Schwarzenegger, so please take it off the Dutch list! ;) :crazyeye:
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there is even a german movie "todesspiel" (deathgame) from 1972 which featured it, which was much earlier than "running man". I think the idea is old, but people had probably more ethics...
 
I think that was called "Das Millionenspiel". Many people back then reportedly thought it was real. The outcry was impressive given how close to regarding it as normal we are today.

"Todesspiel" is Breloer's RAF movie, btw.
 
Originally posted by Hitro
I think that was called "Das Millionenspiel". Many people back then reportedly thought it was real. The outcry was impressive given how close to regarding it as normal we are today.

"Todesspiel" is Breloer's RAF movie, btw.
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:o you're right of course. and yes, reality tv gets worse every year, hard to say what kind we will have in a few years.
 
Canada - The Pacemaker, Time zones.
 
Originally posted by Stapel
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.
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We had that too, "The Villa" it was called. Must've been around just as long...
 
I suppose Rockets have not been invented by the Germans, we have to credit the Russians for that, namely Mr. Konstantin Tsiolkovsky.
http://www.informatics.org/museum/tsiol.html

The English Mr. Charles Darwin has published an often and passionately discussed theory about the descent of species by means of natural selection.

Italian Mr. Gallilei has investigated the free fall. He was one of the first to apply systematic experimentation. Sort of the inventor of the scientific method.

His scholar Toricelli has produced the first vaccuum on earth.

There were two guys, whos names I can't recall now, who indepentently developped the periodic table of the elements.


Originally posted by Hitro
I think that was called "Das Millionenspiel".
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The actual idea goes back to story of Robert Sheckley, humoristic Science Fiction writer.

Originally posted by KaeptnOvi
Switzerland:
Symbol "i" (Leonhard Euler, 1777)
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As far as I know, indian mathematicians have used the imaginery unit since about 800 AD.
 
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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If someone peaces out on their country and moves to a new country, they have clearly stated through this action that they want to be a part of the new country. Bell was a Canadian, and invented the telephone in Canada. It was a Canadian invention.

Did anyone ever hear about Bell's exploits into aviation? It is quite intresting.
 
Originally posted by De Lorimier
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.
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De Lorimer, they said country not province :p.
 
Originally posted by Goonie


De Lorimer, they said country not province :p.
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they are still working on that.......
 
Expanding the Dutch list ...

- Artificial heart
- Audio cassette
- Central Bank
- Cocoa Powder
- Coffee Shop
- Compact Disc
- Corporation
- Decimal fractions
- Econometrics
- Electro-cardiograph
- Elliptical orbits
- Kidney machine
- Microscope
- Nylon
- Open hearth
- Pendulum clock
- Polder
- Printing Press
- Probability Theory
- Stamppot
- Stock Exchange
- Submarine
- Telescope
- Wave Theory of Light
- Windmills (various types)
 
like i said befor, and maerican inveted the phone one monthe befor bell, but patened it one hour after him
 
Originally posted by Sir Eric
We Invented Aussie rules football. :)
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Too Right! Greatest sport on earth! We also invented -
VB
Political Apathy
The Childeren Overboard (Tampa) scandel
 
New Zealand inventions / discoveries / achievements:

Jet Boat
Bungy Jumping
Zorbing
Tranquiliser Dart Gun
Powered Flight
Stamp vending machine
Spreadable butter
Baeyertz tape (to estimate date of delivery for pregnant mums.)
Continuous fermentation
Structure of the atom / Radioactive decay / Splitting the Nucleus of the atom.
Nationalised Vote for women.
The top of mount Everest. ;)
Disposable syringe.
 
Originally posted by Ossric


how does one invent a polder ??? That's like inventing a mountain.. :crazyeye:
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Uhhm, no! You need to pump water out! A polder is not a natural thing!
 
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