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Doom.
Windows.
Nuclear Weapons.
Breast Implants.
McDonalds.
Repeating Firearms.

Ford was the first car - Incorrect
Wright brothers brought the world flight - First sustained powered flight, and thats arguable
We invented Nuclear Power - Albert Einstein was American?
The telephone - Bell was scottish.

Last edited by Dilbert_X (2009-07-01 17:30:49)

Dilbert_X wrote:

Ford was the first car - Incorrect
Wright brothers brought the world flight - First sustained powered flight, and thats arguable
We invented Nuclear Power - Albert Einstein was American?
The telephone - Bell was scottish.

I'm sorry I can't here you from up here.. what was that?

its a lul.. relax

Weekend

The Telephone   Its ours, he's Canadian
Insulin
The Zipper
Java
The Blackberry
Basketball
SONAR
IMAX <3
Peanut Butter!   <-- didnt know that one before

cpt.fass1 wrote:

America has really brought the world the first of a lot of things..

Ford was the first car.
Wright brothers brought the world flight
We invented Nuclear Power
The telephone.

What is your country known for making creating?

Ahhh lol, obviously they didn't invent (or even have) education.

Australia:

• Boomerang - The boomerang was invented by Australian aborigines and served multiple purposes.
• 1838 - Pre-paid postage - Colonial Postmaster-General of New South Wales, James Raymond introduced the world's first pre-paid postal system, using pre-stamped stamped sheets as envelopes.
• 1856 - The vapor-compression refrigerator - Using the principal of vapour compression, James Harrison produced the world's first practical ice making machine and refrigerator.
• 1889 - Electric Drill - Arthur James Arnot patented the world's first electric drill on 20 August 1889 while working for the Union Electric Company in Melbourne. He designed it primarily to drill rock and to dig coal.
• 1894 - Powered flight - Lawrence Hargrave discovered that curved surfaces lift more than flat ones. He subsequently built the world's first box kites, hitched four together, added an engine and flew five metres. Hargrave corresponded freely with other aviation pioneers, including the Wright Brothers. Unlike the Americans who commercialised their ideas, Hargrave never patented his.
• 1903 - Froth flotation - The process of separating minerals from rock by flotation was developed by Charles Potter and Guillaume Delprat in New South Wales. Both worked independently at the same time on different parts of the process for the mining company Broken Hill Pty. Ltd.
• 1912 - Tank - A South Australian named Lance de Mole submitted a proposal to the British War Office, for a 'chain-rail vehicle which could be easily steered and carry heavy loads over rough ground and trenches' complete with extensive drawings. The British war office rejected the idea at the time, but De Mole made several more proposals to the British War Office in 1914 and 1916, and formally requested he be recognised as the inventor of the Mark I tank. The British Royal Commission on Awards to Inventors eventually made a payment of £987 to De Mole to cover his expenses; promoting him to an honorary corporal.
• 1928 - Electronic Pacemaker - The heart pacemaker had a portable apparatus which 'plugged into a lighting point. The apparatus was used to revive a potentially stillborn infant at Crown Street Women's Hospital, Sydney whose heart continued 'to beat on its own accord', 'at the end of 10 minutes' of stimulation.
• 1953 - Solar hot water - Developed by a team at the CSIRO led by Roger N Morse at the CSIRO
• 1958 - Black box flight recorder - The 'black box' voice and instrument data recorder was invented by Dr David Warren in Melbourne
• 1961 - Ultrasound - David Robinson and George Kossoff's work at the Australian Department of Health, resulted in the first commercially practical water path ultrasonic scanner in 1961.
• 1971 - Variable rack and pinion steering - The variable ratio rack and pinion steering in motor vehicles allowing smooth steering with minimal feedback was invented by Australian engineer, Arthur Bishop.
• 1979 - Bionic ear - The cochlear implant was invented by Professor Graeme Clark of the University of Melbourne.
• 1980 - Dual flush toilet - Bruce Thompson, working for Caroma in Australia, developed the Duoset cistern, with two buttons, and two flush volumes as a water-saving measure, now responsible for savings in excess of 32000 litres of water per household per year.
• 1983 - Winged Keel - Ben Lexcen designed a winged keel that helped Australia II end the New York Yacht Club's 132 year ownership of the America's Cup. The keel gave the yacht better steering and manoeuvrability in heavy winds.
• 1995 - EXELGRAM - The world's most sophisticated optical anti-counterfeiting technology was developed by the CSIRO.
• 1995 - Jindalee Radar System - The United States of America spent $11 billion developing stealth aircraft that could not be detected by radar. Scientists at the CSIRO concluded that if the plane could not be detected, perhaps the turbulence it makes passing through air could be. $1.5 million later, the Jindalee Radar system had transformed the stealth bomber into nothing more than an unusual looking aircraft.

Last edited by DrunkFace (2009-07-01 22:12:17)

mormons and mormon jesus.

Winston_Churchill wrote:

The Telephone   Its ours, he's Canadian
Insulin
The Zipper
Java
The Blackberry
Basketball
SONAR
IMAX <3
Peanut Butter!   <-- didnt know that one before

Basketball? That was invented in Springfield, MA
I don't care about the ethnicity of the guy I care about where he did it.

So far in this thread I've heard that the telephone was invented in Scotland, Canada and the US.

"conceived it in Canada, born in Boston". If your parents had some fun in California but you were born in Florida, you're a Floridian.

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Who_invented_the_telephone

It's American, bitches.

Last edited by Poseidon (2009-07-01 22:40:38)

Narupug wrote:

Baseball, American Football, and Basketball

basketball was a canadian invention.

Canadarm and igloos.

Lisik wrote:

Weekend

actually your religion copied that along with virtually everything else from earlier pagan religions.

Now as for Greece:

acoustics in theatres, aeolian harp, anaphoric clock, anchor, anemoscope, aerometer, astrolabe, bricks, caltrops, camera obscura, the database, catapult, chewing gum, city planning, coin automat, compound pulley, crane, the dice, dioptra, the first ever computing device (Antikythera Device), electro-therapy, fire extinction machine, flame thrower, floating bricks, floating bridges, flying machines, lamps, levers, lighthouses, syringe, Spoon of Diocles, Hippocratic bench, tampons, mines, musical notation, odometer, pantograph (or pointing machine), parabolic reflector, patents, periaktos (revolving prisms with painted scenery), the piston, the alarm clock, pozzolana (a version of cement), Pump of Ctesibius, Pythagoras Cup of Justice, Radiation weapon (with burning mirrors), the railway, the research centre, River Deflection (water control), robots, roof tiles, the screw, sea mines, Sequence Control, the shock absorber, the shower, siege machines, the siren, soldering of iron, the soap, the steam engine, Steam Gun of Archimedes, Stentorophonic tube, Trireme ships, the Vowels,

and most importantly: the bikini!

I always thought the USA invented everything? Or are they just saying they did?

Canada invented:
maple syrup
Canada Arm
Acetylene (for torches)
Snowmobile
IMax Movie System

DrunkFace wrote:

[*]1995 - Jindalee Radar System - The United States of America spent $11 billion developing stealth aircraft that could not be detected by radar. Scientists at the CSIRO concluded that if the plane could not be detected, perhaps the turbulence it makes passing through air could be. $1.5 million later, the Jindalee Radar system had transformed the stealth bomber into nothing more than an unusual looking aircraft.

FTW