What was invented in your country?

[biGBum333]

Australia - Pavlova, hats with corks dangling off them and home and away

 

[Dwarfman]

Australia - The Hills Hoist, Ugg Boots, The Stump-Jump Plough, The Artificial Pacemaker, The Esky...

 

[Canid117]

The sandwich! It may have been invented by a British commander but it was invented in the United States!

AMERICA!!!! FUCK YEAH!!!!

 

[logiman]

Canada- insuline

Sorry to inform you, but a Romanian, Nicolae Paulescu, invented insulin.

Also, more notably, the jet engine by Henri Coandă.

Here`s a list of all the other things invented/discovered by Romanians:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Romanian_inventors_and_discoverers

 

[drbarno]

evolution.

beat that.

...

I suppose you'll claim gravity and infrared radiation while you're at it.

no. italy laid the groundwork for gravity while germans invented InfraRed radiation.

 

[Decagonapus]

BTW> Bell was a Canadian citizen, living here when he invented the Telephone.

Some others are Plexiglas, basketball, polyethylene bags, electron microscope, Java (programming), insulin, IMAX, pacemaker, zipper, kerosene, and walkie-talkies. (some of which have already been mentioned) The lightbulb is a disputed one.

 

[Canid117]

Wow...

I'm German, so this could become a pretty long post


alternating current


first computers (Z1 to Z4, not PCs)

The first inventor to use alternating current was a Frenchman and the first working computer was actually made by an englishman.

(Fun fact: the worlds first programmer was a woman. Presumably she was told to re-enter the kitchen after she was done writing the punch card.)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternating_current

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Difference_engine

And for the guy who claimed evolution, there is a difference between inventing something and discovering something.

 

[Jackpot524]

evolution.

beat that.

...

I suppose you'll claim gravity and infrared radiation while you're at it.

no. italy laid the groundwork for gravity while germans invented InfraRed radiation.

*facepalm*

What I was getting at was that those things were discovered and quantified. Saying they were "invented" is ridiculous, as it infers that they didn't previously exist.

 

[Warnolo]

Well, spaniards invented the mop, the chupachups, the submarine sanwich, the iberic ham, The americas (discovered, invented... who cares?), the olive oil and la macarena.

Isn't my country awesome?

 

[drbarno]

evolution.

beat that.

...

I suppose you'll claim gravity and infrared radiation while you're at it.

no. italy laid the groundwork for gravity while germans invented InfraRed radiation.

*facepalm*

What I was getting at was that those things were discovered and quantified. Saying they were "invented" is ridiculous, as it infers that they didn't previously exist.

if anything the theory of these things were invented first before becoming fact.

 

[Jackpot524]

BTW> Bell was a Canadian citizen, living here when he invented the Telephone.

Some others are Plexiglas, basketball, polyethylene bags, electron microscope, Java (programming), insulin, IMAX, pacemaker, zipper, kerosene, and walkie-talkies. (some of which have already been mentioned) The lightbulb is a disputed one.

Insulin is disputed too apparantly, but what I don't get is why the guy who 'actually' invented it never revealed it to the scientific community for several years...

 

[Soxafloppin]

The pneumatic tyre, The De-fib, The Delorean! We invented Time travel! Theres some others but they escape my mind at the moment.

Why its little old Northern Ireland!

 

[TheTejs]

Antabus
The tape recorder
Lego
registered partnership
the danish (I would asked you to guess what country i come from, but this just gives it away )
and THE ATOM, YES FUCK YOU ALL! NIELS BOHR INVENTED THE ATOM, WITHOUT HIM WE WOULD NO EXIST!
... lol
Dane here aka Denmark!

 

[theriddlen]

Windscreen wipers.

Also, latest research indicates that Columbus was Polish, so we invented America.

GTFO of my lawn, usfags!

 

[TheAmazingHobo]

The first inventor to use alternating current was a Frenchman and the first working computer was actually made by an englishman.

Dude, the difference engine is a calculator that can work with polynomials, not a freely-programmable computer.
That´s is like claiming the chinese invented the computer, because that´s where the first abacus showed up.

 

[TyrunnAlberyn]

Hrm, let's see, representing for the Netherlands:

- the microscope
- the telescope (although mr. Galileo Galilei then perfected the design, the original came from us ^^)
- the electrocardiograph
- the CD