What was invented in your country?
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Ah, yes. Coming up with a brilliant idea and/or theory and utterly, utterly failing to actually realize it.Canid117 said:
Britains greatest skill.
But I still maintain that Germany invented the computer. Because we´re talking about technology here, not philosophy. Ideas are neat, actually doing stuff is neater... more neat.... better.
Otherwise, in 50 years my pothead rommie will be able to claim that he invented the teleporter.
I think you should get a dictionary and look up philosophy because creating a design is not the same as philosophy. It was realized at least partially but it didn't have the funding to be fully constructed. Finished? No. Invented? Yes.TheAmazingHobo said:
Uhm, yep, I know. I'm from Sweden. He was from Sweden right? I think that counts.bro1667 said:that was alfred nobel, (nobel prize guy, swedish)MassiveGeek said:We invented dynamite.
I did not mean that creating a design = philosophy. I merely mentioned a science where a theory is usually more important than its actual realization (in so far as a realization is even possible).Canid117 said:
And sorry, my definition of making an invention includes a successfull and complete (or at least in most important aspects complete) implementation.
If you do not agree, that is your prerogative.
Scotland: Everything. If we didn't invent it we improved it and took credit for it. Why are you looking at me like that?
Okay on the subject of the telephone. Here is a list people accredited with the invention, although Bell got the patent the truth of the true inventor of the telephone is far from clear:
Alexander Graham Bell - Scottish
Innocenzo Manzetti - Italian
Charles Bourseul - French
Johann Philipp Reis - German
Antonio Meucci - Italian
Elisha Gray - American
Please note that NONE of these people are Canadian. While Bell did live in Canada most of his life, he did not grow up there, he did not go to school there and he was not Canadian. All these people were working around the same time and the only obvious difference between Bell and the others is that Bell clearly had better lawyers.
This brings the secondary debate of who gets to claim the invention, the origin country of the inventor or the country they were in when they invented it. That needs to be agreed before you lay claim to one of these inventions.
Alexander Graham Bell - Scottish
Innocenzo Manzetti - Italian
Charles Bourseul - French
Johann Philipp Reis - German
Antonio Meucci - Italian
Elisha Gray - American
Please note that NONE of these people are Canadian. While Bell did live in Canada most of his life, he did not grow up there, he did not go to school there and he was not Canadian. All these people were working around the same time and the only obvious difference between Bell and the others is that Bell clearly had better lawyers.
This brings the secondary debate of who gets to claim the invention, the origin country of the inventor or the country they were in when they invented it. That needs to be agreed before you lay claim to one of these inventions.
scotland invented the telephone and the TV aswell as the train tarmac and raincoats so tbh scotland did alot of stuff ages ago but it did
United Kingdom (technically three countries i know but hey its not like were huge were smaller then most US States) - Modern Australia, Modern America, 3 - Language Trees (Anglo Saxon, Celtic and English), The Protestant Christian Church, the W.W.W Programming Language (thank you Sir Tim Burness Lee) R.A.D.A.R, ummmm i forget some (lots).