How so?imortal wrote:
Most likely because it isn't actually true.xRBLx wrote:
Internet was invented by the EU by CERN and not US. I didnt know this till late.
actually the chinese invented a device that pointed magnetic south before the arabs made the compass we know today.S.Lythberg wrote:
Great Britain had almost no naval power until 1588...xRBLx wrote:
Did they? i thought it was the UK cos od our great naval power at the time. But I take my hat of to the Arabs for that one then.S.Lythberg wrote:
Arab traders in the 9th century invented the compass
Got to be the greatest contribution of all time.
But yes, hats off to the arabs for creating the compass, so that my ancestors could pillage the french coastline!
lodestone + string?Ender2309 wrote:
actually the chinese invented a device that pointed magnetic south before the arabs made the compass we know today.S.Lythberg wrote:
Great Britain had almost no naval power until 1588...xRBLx wrote:
Did they? i thought it was the UK cos od our great naval power at the time. But I take my hat of to the Arabs for that one then.
Got to be the greatest contribution of all time.
But yes, hats off to the arabs for creating the compass, so that my ancestors could pillage the french coastline!
yeah, true enough.S.Lythberg wrote:
lodestone + string?Ender2309 wrote:
actually the chinese invented a device that pointed magnetic south before the arabs made the compass we know today.S.Lythberg wrote:
Great Britain had almost no naval power until 1588...
But yes, hats off to the arabs for creating the compass, so that my ancestors could pillage the french coastline!
close enough I suppose, but the Arabs brought it to the west, and made it more useful (works in the wind now)
HAHAHAA OMG we invented the goon bag? awesomeBoogeyman81 wrote:
Flexible wine casks... the bag in the box
Race Cam - was created in Australia by the engineer Geoff Healey.
1. no. wrong first electric computers were made in the UK at Bletchly Park.motherdear wrote:
1.the first electronik computer was produced by ibm (american company)
2. the first mass produced car that wasn't just a toy was the ford TT model and was invented by an american named ford. mass producing cars was properly the biggest contribution to the cars manufactors ever made and it was what really boosted the number off cars in the world.
3. microsoft launched windows the program that made the computer usefull for normal people.
4. so yes america has made a great contribution to cars and computers.
funny, but almost nobody on this forum will understand this joke...TSI wrote:
France: La guillotine...une idée si tranchante qu'on en perd la tête!
I heard it was created by the guys at CERN. Which is most definatly not in the U.SMr.Pieeater wrote:
The United States = The internet...
By far one of the best inventions of the 20th century and beyond.
I too have read Angels and Demons. Actually when all the people started going on about "HOMG America gave internetz" it sprang to mind.FatherTed wrote:
I heard it was created by the guys at CERN. Which is most definatly not in the U.SMr.Pieeater wrote:
The United States = The internet...
By far one of the best inventions of the 20th century and beyond.
No, my physics teacher told me that, cause we're menta be going on a "educational trip" to CERN.SharkyMcshark wrote:
I too have read Angels and Demons. Actually when all the people started going on about "HOMG America gave internetz" it sprang to mind.FatherTed wrote:
I heard it was created by the guys at CERN. Which is most definatly not in the U.SMr.Pieeater wrote:
The United States = The internet...
By far one of the best inventions of the 20th century and beyond.
Was it true that it was invented in CERN?
yes is was invented by CERNFatherTed wrote:
No, my physics teacher told me that, cause we're menta be going on a "educational trip" to CERN.SharkyMcshark wrote:
I too have read Angels and Demons. Actually when all the people started going on about "HOMG America gave internetz" it sprang to mind.FatherTed wrote:
I heard it was created by the guys at CERN. Which is most definatly not in the U.S
Was it true that it was invented in CERN?
QFTGunSlinger OIF II wrote:
America invented water
Windows is a crappy rip-off of the Apple OS, and 10 years behind it - still american though.3. microsoft launched windows the program that made the computer usefull for normal people.
Not the case. The WWW was invented by Tim Berners Lee (a Brit working at CERN). The WWW is not the Internet however, the framework of which had already been put in place by the US military - ARPANET.FatherTed wrote:
I heard it was created by the guys at CERN. Which is most definatly not in the U.SMr.Pieeater wrote:
The United States = The internet...
By far one of the best inventions of the 20th century and beyond.
It was a Brit (William Shockley) who came up with the transistor too. The BJT at any rate.FEOS wrote:
Not sure if it's been posted already (probably, with 246 posts thus far):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Un … inventions
My personal favorite is the transistor, upon which nearly all computers today are built. Yes, the Brits came up with the binary computer (thanks Alan Turing), but what made it ubiquitous was the solid-state transistor and the integrated circuit board (both from the US).
