What was invented in your country?

[ReservoirAngel]

Television
Radio
Telephone
Steam train
Electricity
Underground trains
Steam Locomotive
World Wide Web
Football
Cricket
Rugby

 

[Simriel]

I'm Scottish. We pretty much invented the modern world. No need to thank us.

 

[havass]

The thumbdrive! And those X-mini capsule speakers. I think we had something to do with Razer mouses, too.

 

[EllEzDee]

In my county the first ever tank was made. Might have even been invented too, but i don't care to find out. I believe the factory is now a Morrisons (hur hur, Walmart).

 

[Thaliur]

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.

Granted, an invention without application is quite useless, but being the first one to use something does not mean he invented it.
Although alternating current is just a result of the way an electrical generator works, so I guess it was a bit wrong to list it as a separate invention.

And the difference engine is pretty much just a calculator. It might have been one of the early steps towards computers, but the Z1 was actually programmable using punch cards, while the difference engine just performed a single operation.

 

[bloodmonkey]

the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland - about 95% of everything

lol jk, we invented alot, steam engines, jet engines, bouncing bombs, computers, a constitution, parliamentary government and much much more.

Actually i believe Iceland invented parliamentary government

but yea Britain, a lot, a whole lot, a whole fecking lot, but my personal favourite would probably be the Circuit Board, according to a... certain reference... guess from where ^_^ it was invented by an Austrian man working in England, so it was technically invented in this country.

 

[The Funslinger]

England:: Computers, the concept of America, and heroin.

 

[kurtzy23]

Australia has invented the Latex gloves-1945, The Notepad-1902

 

[Spy_Guy]

Sweden: Dynamite! and zippers.

 

[ParanoidEngineer]

TV!
yeah.
The Train
Fish and Chips...
"Eastenders"

Yeah, I'm done.

 

[SwagLordYoloson]

Australia- Kangaroo, Kangaroo Porno, Children, Poor people and condoms

 

[T3hMonk3y]

Ummm the defibulator? Northern Ireland btw t'was invented by a guy who lived in Belfast

 

[e.wlmo4]

New Zealand gave the world the hairpin, the eggbeater and the handheld GPS.

 

[Socius]

Internet.

Oh you're Belgian? the World Wide Web was actually invented by CERN.
Anyway, this baby is all norwegian:

We've also invented alot of new ways to obtain pollutionfree energy lately.
But who cares about that as long as we have out bigass oil reserves.
/sarcasm off

 

[Murderiser]

Seeing as I'm from Britain:
1) The modern World essentially
2) Telephone
3) Steam engine
4) Jet Engine
4) Tank
5) Penicillin
6) TV
7) The light bulb
I'm going to stop now, the list could theoretically go on forever.

 

[ezeroast]

the black box flight recorder
Australia

 

[cahtush]

sweden
freakin dynamite

 

[BlackStar42]

From England:
DNA
Buckminsterfullerene
The fuel cell
Several chemical elements, including aluminium
The Christmas card
The pencil
The world's first radio station
Texting
Geostationary satellites
Arguably, the computer
DNA fingerprinting
The spanner
The diesel engine
The steam engine
Carbon fibre
Steam turbine
Disc brakes
Internal combustion engine
and the greatest of all, Branston Pickle.

This is just from England, and this is only half the list, there's still all the Scottish and Welsh ones as well.

 

[Jonluw]

Raise your hand if you think you could live without the cheese-slicer.

Noone? That's what I thought.

Edit: There's also aerosol spray and the gas turbine.
Edit: And I think we invented salt-power. Yeah; we found a way to harness the magnificent power of... salt.

 

[Popadoo]

Yahtzee comes from England.
Americans, your arguments are invalid.