What did your country discover/invent?

Originally posted by superslug
What nation gets credit for the telephone is obviously a tough call.
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:lol:

Me thinks it was damn boring to invent a telephone and then just sit around and wait for it to ring...

Who invented the first telephone call anyway?
 
U.S.

Interchangeble parts
assembly line production
asperin
Pretty much 90% of all modern drugs -seeing as our insanly high drug prices provide well for R & D
Gunturrets -on the moniter
Gatling Gun -precursor to all machine guns and direct ansestor of the vulcan 3 barrel
 
Some other Canadian inventions:

Instant Mashed Potatoes
Pablum
Scotland
Imax
 
Hummmmm instant mash potatoes!!
O.k, enough stupid posts for me I have to study...
 
Originally posted by lord42
U.S.

asperin
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Na, that drug was made by a German chemical industries corporation in the late 19th century.
Prevents from cursing that noise making telephone invention on the day after...
 
Scotland

Penicillin - Alexander Felming
Telephone - Alexander Grahm Bell
The American Navy - John Paul Jones
Steam Engine - James Watt
Raincoat - Henry?? MacIntosh
Tarmac - ??
Whiskey - ?????
 
Once again: the Steam Engine was invented by the ancient Greeks, and whiskey is Irish (whisky is Scottish).

Prehistoric humans already had raincoats.

Tarmac was invented in England.
 
Originally posted by lord42
U.S.

Interchangeble parts
assembly line production
asperin
Pretty much 90% of all modern drugs -seeing as our insanly high drug prices provide well for R & D
Gunturrets -on the moniter
Gatling Gun -precursor to all machine guns and direct ansestor of the vulcan 3 barrel
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Interchangeable parts were already used in the first printing presses. The first whole product whose parts could be interchanged was made in France (muskets, 1790).

Asperin as a chemical is a French invention (Charles Gergardt, 1832), but the active substance was known in prehistoric times.

Plenty of modern drugs are invented in a.o. Switzerland, Germany and The Netherlands.
 
fist of all, like i said befor some one invented the telaphone 1 month befor bell!! and amerincan guy!!! he just patintend it one hour after bell so when thay whent t cort over who rifley owns the patent over it, bell won!!
 
Originally posted by Grille


Na, that drug was made by a German chemical industries corporation in the late 19th century.
Prevents from cursing that noise making telephone invention on the day after...
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Nope you're wrong I mean its natural form which was discovered by a monk in flordia in the bark of a type of tree. Germany only figured out how to artificially produce it.
 
Originally posted by Grille

:lol:

Me thinks it was damn boring to invent a telephone and then just sit around and wait for it to ring...

Who invented the first telephone call anyway?
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Bell.... in Canada.
 
Originally posted by lord42


Nope you're wrong
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Yeah, I know that since Ribannah's post anyways...:)

But I'm not too shy the make the next claim, related to the unsolved telephone problem, of course.:yeah:

What bothers me still is the question who made the first phone call. Goonie says it was Bell himself, while Ribannah thinks it was Bell's mother. From personal experience, I'd bet it was his mother. Probably Bell even wanted to call his mother first, but forget the number, so she beat him to it? OTOH the phone book might have been invented already, so he could have looked it up. Or he could have just called the directory assistance. Anyway, wasn't probably an international call, so credits go to Canada. The telephone itself, however, was invented by German Philipp Reis.:D

Looky here:

http://www.ilt.columbia.edu/projects/bluetelephone/html/part9.html
 
Originally posted by Ribannah


Interchangeable parts were already used in the first printing presses. The first whole product whose parts could be interchanged was made in France (muskets, 1790).
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In US schools it is taught that Eli Whitney invented interchangeable parts in Connecticut in the 1780's for the manufacture of muskets.:hmm:
 
Originally posted by Jorge
We discovered America, and then we invented la siesta and la fiesta and that's it.
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Didn't you guys invent the inquisitia?
 
Originally posted by Ribannah
Expanding the Dutch list ...

- Printing Press
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No, the German Gutenberg was earlier.

About the stock exchange, you could argue they already existed in 13th century Bruges, where investing in (trading-)companies was already a common practice.
And one more: the (modern, as used in chemistry classes etc.) gas-burner is a Dutch invention (co-invented by my grandfather btw).
 
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