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

Last edited by Macbeth (2009-07-01 14:49:57)

cpt.fass1 wrote:

I was thinking the other day cause I saw a North Carolina license plate(first in flight) and 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?

Ford was the first to mass produce cars cheaply using the assembly line, not the first to bring cars to the market, that would be Karl Benz(if your talking gasoline powered cars)

cpt.fass1 wrote:

I was thinking the other day cause I saw a North Carolina license plate(first in flight) and 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?

I thought Alexander Graham Bell was Canadian? And isn't Karl Benz of Germany the inventor of the automobile?

Ireland:

Stream of consciousness writing, American/British infrastructure, etc.

Addendum: countries don't create things - individuals/groups/companies do.

The Telephone
The Lightbulb

This will not end well.

Interesting I was actually going to write Correct me if I'm wrong.. But hey it was done anyway..

My bad, who would have thunk it..

Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot (1725-1804)      1769      STEAM / Built the first self propelled road vehicle (military tractor) for the French army: three wheeled, 2.5 mph.      France
Robert Anderson     1832-1839     ELECTRIC / Electric carriage.     Scotland
Karl Friedrich Benz (1844-1929)     1885/86     GASOLINE / First true automobile. Gasoline automobile powered by an internal combustion engine: three wheeled, Four cycle, engine and chassis form a single unit.     Germany Patent DRP No. 37435
Gottlieb Wilhelm Daimler (1834-1900) and Wilhelm Maybach (1846-1929)     1886     GASOLINE / First four wheeled, four-stroke engine- known as the "Cannstatt-Daimler."     Germany
George Baldwin Selden (1846-1922)     1876/95     GASOLINE / Combined internal combustion engine with a carriage: patent no: 549,160 (1895). Never manufactured -- Selden collected royalties.     United States
Charles Edgar Duryea (1862-1938) and his brother Frank (1870-1967)     1893     GASOLINE / First successful gas powered car: 4hp, two-stroke motor. The Duryea brothers set up first American car manufacturing company.     United States

http://www.loc.gov/rr/scitech/mysteries/auto.html

Source..

Last edited by cpt.fass1 (2009-07-01 15:17:43)

CameronPoe wrote:

cpt.fass1 wrote:

I was thinking the other day cause I saw a North Carolina license plate(first in flight) and 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?

I thought Alexander Graham Bell was Canadian? And isn't Karl Benz of Germany the inventor of the automobile?

Ireland:

Stream of consciousness writing, American/British infrastructure, etc.

Addendum: countries don't create things - individuals/groups/companies do.

He's correct. Ford invented the assembly line production model of the auto, not the auto itself.





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intermittent wipers

Last edited by jsnipy (2009-07-01 15:23:46)

cpt.fass1 wrote:

Ford was the first car.

if you dont want flaming, dont fail in the OP

Might as well close the thread now. It's inevitably going to turn into a flame war. Hell, this already is an indirect flame war ("Hey look what my country did!").

Like CP said, it's individuals, not countries. So don't waste your time bragging about what other people did. Plus the countries with larger populations have higher chances of finding someone who did something noteworthy. Which brings on more flames ("Hey look, my country has more stuff than yours!").

Kmarion wrote:

Why is it not important to consider the environment that allowed the inventor to succeed? A nation that promotes the entrepreneurial spirit and does not operate under the every mans a servant ideology will certainly help to drive innovation.  If Isaac Newton was forced to work the fields 20 hours a day I highly doubt you would even know his name.

But in Isaac Newton's time most people were forced to work in the fields a majority of their day.

you thought america invented the car? ooookaay

lots tbh, but like cam and kmar said it's not really a country that creates new stuff/ideas.

KEN-JENNINGS wrote:

Kmarion wrote:

Why is it not important to consider the environment that allowed the inventor to succeed? A nation that promotes the entrepreneurial spirit and does not operate under the every mans a servant ideology will certainly help to drive innovation.  If Isaac Newton was forced to work the fields 20 hours a day I highly doubt you would even know his name.

But in Isaac Newton's time most people were forced to work in the fields a majority of their day.

lol.. but Mr. Newton himself was privileged enough. Greater opportunity should improve results... but you knew that.

Kmarion wrote:

Mekstizzle wrote:

Isaac Newton would have also not been known had it not been for countless others around the world in the centuries or millennia before him creating this and that and spreading the information around. Everything is built upon something else. That's why the argument for applying things to specific countries is kinda silly, in some ways

That's what we Americans do best. Build on and make it a reality for the masses.

I thought that was Japan's gig?