Your country's best invention

[Helimocopter]

America Invented America

nooooo... that was england... and france...

the paperwork was fucked up

 

[Viptorian]

And wasn't Texas only a republic?(Asks the history major)

Yes, but so is the United States. A republic is a democratic form of government (no true democracy exists as a country world-wide). *also history major*

 

[Eldan]

let's see what Switzerland invented...

Chocolate with milk in it, which makes it actually edible, is one everyone knows and loves, and also our greatest cliché.

Then... Velcro...

Let's see the list of famous swiss people.
The Bernoullis and Leonard Euler, so a lot of important mathematical stuff. Albert Einstein was a swiss citizen and wrote his theories here. Hmm. Oh, yeah. LSD. We invented that too. Hmm. The programming language Pascal...

Bah. Mostly boring stuff. I'll go with milk chocolate as the best one. Hooray for national stereotypes.

 

[Primate]

Im from Denmark, we helped make the nuclear bomb?

 

[Daniel Mayne]

England - the steam engine, led to technology we know and use every day as it sparked the industrial revoulution

 

[asinann]

I'm a fan of the country that the item was invented in or the one that paid for the invention being the originator of the invention. On that note, the nuke. We also invented the Aerocar http://www.aerocar.com/ . I suppose the most important US invention though would be the assembly line.

I do find it rather amusing that most of you are claiming things that were invented in the US as being invented by your country after your governments chased the inventors out.

 

[Maxtar]

I don't believe it, 6 whole pages and a page search for vegemite brought up absolutely nothing. Well allow me to fix that .... Vegemite. Vegemite is Australia's greatest invention (unless someone else invented it for us, in which case, it's our now so back off before I set my platypi on you).

Vegemite is australian, but you have to wonder about its originality, the british invented Marmite a few years ahead of Vegemite.

New Zealand invented jogging, the egg-beater, the electric fence, robber-proof glass and the Rutherford model of atoms, Rutherford also invented (well, discovered really) alpha and beta radiation, leading to Nuclear Physics. We also "invented" votes for women.

 

[himemiya1650]

USA, alternating current, Tesla counts. On a lesser note the snuggie and the segway.

 

[Thwarted]

I'm Scottish, so the deep fried mars bar

England - the steam engine, led to technology we know and use every day as it sparked the industrial revoulution

EDIT: nope, that was us up in the frozen north

 

[Chrinik]

Well, the Atomic Bomb was also made with the help of german scientists not wanting hitler to get it first.
And we are talking about INVENTIONS people, inventions are things that haven´t been there, and then have been created.
Elements, Physical effects and such stuff counts as DISCOVERIES...
And the Jetengine, funny enough, has been invented by Britain and Germany at exactly the same time...the scientists have argued who was first for years during the war, but then settled for a draw...
Oh, and through some wikiresearch (cough cough), wiki sais that some of the first mass produced CDs where made in factorys in my hometown<.< Doesn´t count as invented tho...
But thinking them up is one thing, then having the infrastructure to make the invention is another XD

 

[Hafnium]

Looked around for it, here is some of what I found.

In chronological order.

Pure yeast for alcohol production (1870's)... drunks.
The dry batteri (1880's)
The speaker (1915)
Insulin for diabetes-patients (1920)
A plant (!) that detects mines by changing colour in the presence of buried explosives (2004)
Hydrogen as a fuel (hydrogen-pill) (2005)

Not bad actually.

Edit: Forgot to name the country, it's Denmark.

 

[DeathChairOfHell]

whaaaaat? we created the fridge? what i do know that sweden invented are the post it notes, now THAT'S and invention!

You do know post-its were developed by someone who was looking for a new super-powerful super-glue right? He failed but realized the result of his failure was still useful.

i hate you too.

 

[Sedik]

I'm Scottish, so the deep fried mars bar

England - the steam engine, led to technology we know and use every day as it sparked the industrial revoulution

EDIT: nope, that was us up in the frozen north

both wrong, hero of alexandria beat you by about 1500 years or more

 

[Wormthong]

CD's

 

[Tiny116]

Beans on toast
Oh
wait
thats not an invention is it XD

 

[Axolotl]

Engaland:Computer.

i would say that was the germans, with the Z3 by Zuse...

ah i meant first programmable, digital, electronic, computing devices.In any case it was Engaland with our Colossus Computer.

Here's a link if your wondering-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossus_computer

well, the Z3, was the first turing-complete and working in 41, colossus not before 43/44 and not even with fully turing-complete architecture...so, score for the nazis there.[/quote]Babbage is probably rolling in his grave right now at this.

 

[CriticaI]

The pleograph and aeroscope (a type of camera, before the Lumiere Bros), kerosene lamp, the mine detector, the delta wing and V-tail and also rotational tank periscope, the melex car (take that US golf players), the bulletproof vest, walkie talkies and the oil industry.

Sadly most of these weren't invented geographically in Poland but by polish inventors on emigration during the war/occupation period.

 

[dekkarax]

Plastic.