What was invented in your country?

[niege]

Sweden made the Pace Maker and the computer mouse (i think)

 

[Red Alastor]

Mexico:
Popcorns... think movie industry without popcorns

 

[Matt King]

Oh, I don't know, we Americans only INVENTED FREEDOM.

BEDBATHANDBEYOND! Fuck yeah, fuck yeah...

freedom?? *cough slavery cough*

*ACHOO*abrahamlincoln*ACHOO* *sniff*

Africa sold slaves to other countries, and all the other countries were all "well, if you're selling them..." and we sorta went with the flow, but then we were all "HEY! Wait a minute, These guys should be FREE n' shit!" so Abraham Lincoln had an epic battle with Stephen Douglas, the evil mastermind of slavery, and when he used his hat cannon to blow Douglas to smithereens, all the slaves' chains immediately broke off and everyone celebrated, except that douchebag racist John Wilkes Booth.

...and THAT'S how we freed all the slaves in the world, exactly as it's written in my history book.



but if you truly believed in freedom u would never have bought slaves and who did you free slaves from oh wait i know OTHER AMERICANS
AMERICAAAAA, FUCK YEAH!

 

[Matt King]

evolution.

beat that.

it is impossible to invent it, you just discovered it

but it order to discover it, you need to have made (another word for invent) the theory.

yes you invented the theory but u didn't actually invent evolution that glory goes to god

 

[Liam Bilton]

My country gave all of you dudes the necktie. A stylish add-on to your suit and a way to hang yourself. That's how fucked up my country is.

Croatia?

 

[CrystalShadow]

Australia um...let me think...I'll say, dropbears?

Oh come on... You can do better than that.

Australia invented the lawnmower,

And uh... (hmm... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Australian_inventions)

Apparently,
the refrigerator,
the electric drill,
powered flight (Just before the Wright Brothers did so - tangentially, one of the first gliders was in New Zealand),
the notepad (the paper kind. Still. weird... )

The tank - That's debatable, because of Leonardo Davinci. (but so are a lot of things), but the british Mark 1 tank from 1916 is based on a design made by an Australian.

The pacemaker.

More besides.

Anyway, all this really shows is that you can find quite long lists of things if you look for it.

 

[LarenzoAOG]

We invented Coca-Cola where I come from (Georgia).

 

[Nocta-Aeterna]

Loe and Behold!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Dutch_inventions_and_discoveries

Looking at it, many of these have been pretty fundamental in further research.
Awesome!

 

[FairlyFrightenedFeline]

Here are a few things we English invented.

 

[zHellas]

We invented Coca-Cola where I come from (Georgia).

Yeah, I went to the Coca-Cola Museum thing.

Beverly tastes like a moist anus.

And this one African drink that Coca-Cola produces... I think Simba or something, also tastes like ass.

OT:

North Carolina made Pepsi.

I win.

 

[someonehairy-ish]

England: Monocles, cricket and THE FREAKING HARRIER JET.

 

[Gerrawn]

Dynamite, the refrigirator, safety matches, three point seatbelt, the blowtorch, the propeller and the first warship with a turning turret.

 

[MasterWhatever]

Canada invented good beer. lame answer i know, but everything else was taken...

 

[adledog]

FREEDOM!

 

[sirpwnsalot65]

canada invented the wonderbra. Colouring men's expectations since like 1930 or whatever

 

[Death-of-Penguins]

Aside from a couple of minor things, like the telephone (Scottish, guys) and Pasteurisation (French- the guy was called Louis Pasteur, come on), I only have one gripe.
America? You did not invent freedom. I think you'll find it's older than is possible to believe, but to give you an example (that is not the first, merely from before America was even recognised as a country) I'll go with something pretty famous.
http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRC77K1ry7YSNuMSxlsJn9Ic1oIBBB11u2_Lss8xx0u1sLxLUIsUA "You can take our lives but ye cannae take our freedom!"
(Hate that movie, but it makes a point.)

 

[WOPR]

FREEDOM!

So you live in Canada?

 

[WOPR]

well i'm from scotland, we invented televison, so like we win the thread right?

just in case you want more:

first colour photo
produced the first model of electromagnatisim in 1864
radar
the adhesive postage stamp
logarithems
hypnotism
nobel gases
ultra sound scanner
MRI body scanner
penicillin
beta-blockers
the refrigerator
flush toilet
electric clock
ghillie suit

there's plenty more i've not even got on to food, i mean how about haggis and the world famous deep fried mars bar

Scotland also predates the American FREEDOM, we also invented the manual lawn-mower, the Bank of England, the reaping machine, marmalade, fax machines, GOLF, Kelvins (Unit of Temp Measurement), the first cloned living Mammal, King Arthur (Excalibur one), the US Navy, Manly Ginger people, a cure for scurvy, telephones, James Bond, Halloween (the traditional bits), adhesive post stamps, artificial diamonds.

And of cource, Whisky!

You seem smart so quick question

was anything really INVENTED in america?

"potato chips!"
that was canada
"French fries!"
I believe that was also canada
"doughnuts!"
...If I say canada again will I be right or wrong?
"HOT DOGS!"
...umm england? I think?


the only thing I can think of is Popcorn, and that was native americans


-oh and yes my mind is stuck on food for inventions

I think Ben Franklin came up with the fire department... I think...