What was invented in your country?
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more on the car: In November 1881, French inventor Gustave Trouvé demonstrated a working three-wheeled automobile powered by electricity at the International Exposition of Electricity, Paris.[14]
Although several other German engineers (including Gottlieb Daimler, Wilhelm Maybach, and Siegfried Marcus) were working on the problem at about the same time, Karl Benz generally is acknowledged as the inventor of the modern automobile.[13]
Canada: Kerosene; the first commercial refining of oil for energy, Variable Pitch Propeller, let airplanes go farther, faster, canada has been at the forefront of telecommunications for decades.
Although several other German engineers (including Gottlieb Daimler, Wilhelm Maybach, and Siegfried Marcus) were working on the problem at about the same time, Karl Benz generally is acknowledged as the inventor of the modern automobile.[13]
Canada: Kerosene; the first commercial refining of oil for energy, Variable Pitch Propeller, let airplanes go farther, faster, canada has been at the forefront of telecommunications for decades.
Also, according to Wikipedia "Games played with curved sticks and a ball have been found throughout history and the world. There are 4000-year-old drawings from Egypt."emeraldrafael said:
But Canada did also make the Space arm and, believe it or not, Basketball
Also I would have said Jet Airplane(Avro Arrow) but my plane-nut friend has informed me otherwise. So i'll stick with "pioneered"
I didnt say anyhting about the other ones, they just didnt invent the lightbulb. thats fact. its even in the US patent officeDkLnBr said:
Sorry, I should clarify... The incandescent lightbulb from which all modern light bulbs are based off of was invented in Canada by Henry Woodward and Mathew Evans. They then sold their patent to Thomas Edison...emeraldrafael said:
You know what, lightbulb history is so confusing that several countries could claim to have invented it. As far as I can see, Britain was first but they never commercialized it or made it practical...
Also, I directly transcribed my list from 'Canada's 50 Greastest Inventions,' so if you have beef take it up with the CBC.
America? Uh, hm.
Cotton gin.
Bifocals.
Octant
Doorbell
Morse Code
Threshers and combines
Ether
Vibrators
....
a whole lot of stuff. lol
Cotton gin.
Bifocals.
Octant
Doorbell
Morse Code
Threshers and combines
Ether
Vibrators
....
a whole lot of stuff. lol
I say, I'm the OP. If I wanted to read a list of things that were invented in a certain place I wouldn't have posed the question to the good people of the Escapist.emeraldrafael said:
Either way, it wasnt in the original post till you editted it, so i shouldnt be blamed and the other person who posted a list should get the same explosive treatment (whether in jest or seriousness).LarenzoAOG said:
and to be on topic, Some more native american inventions (i dont know why, but i consider them abit different then post columbian inventions. Probably cause I consider Babylonian to be different the modern day middle eastern):
The number zero (debatable)
An equal education system (passing down knowledge and customs counts as education, and since everyone had to know how to do a little of everything, I count it as education)
Organized cities
pyramids (mound builders you could say, but also the mayan/incans)
and road systems (at least... clearly walkable and noticeable paths that lead from major city to major city)
Croatia, hmm lets see: the ballpoint pen (if I remember correctly the guy was polish but was living in Croatia when he designed the thing), and also the zeppelin but the guy died and his widow sold the patent rigths to that german guy Ferdinand von Zeppelin who then took all the credit
the bastard
the bastard
Actually, in cases of certain extremist groups, we did. Empowering the local rebels to get an edge over the current leadership is one of the more common, if underhanded, means for a superpower to get another country to see things their way. We've dabbled there from time to time, particularly during the cold war, and there's considerable debate [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA-Osama_bin_Laden_controversy] that Al-Queda was one of them: whoops, that didn't work out very well for us at all!LarenzoAOG said:
