Your country's best invention

[Lonan]

im scottish so the telephone

wasnt alexander grahambell canadian? i mean i know he was from scottland but didnt he invent the telephone as a canadian citizen? im only saying this cause i was gonna mention him for canada

The telephone was invented by Antonio Meucci of Italy among many others who contributed to the invention of the telephone.

 

[Vitor Goncalves]

Texas made the transistor and the integrated circuit. We are responsible for modern electronics.

Daaaamn straight! We also invented a thing called the "automobile" and we are responsible for all the Oldsmobile and Fords and Chevys

Sorry but Germany was quicker on the "automobile" department.

Ok here goes mine (amazing that my retarded country actually invented some stuff). Portugal invented... ah bummer, italy was quicker, we thou came up with the... fuck, england did it 20 years earlier... but I am pretty sure that we did create the first... ah, we didnt, arabians have done it centuries before. Nevermind, nothing to see here!!

PS. Oh we did came up with something, Angiography and that was worth a Medicine Nobel Prize.

 

[Snotnarok]

Texas made the transistor and the integrated circuit. We are responsible for modern electronics.

Daaaamn straight! We also invented a thing called the "automobile" and we are responsible for all the Oldsmobile and Fords and Chevys

Since when is Texas a country?

Since when has Texas not been a country?

Since it's on a list of states :U

 

[joschen]

1. The adjustable spanner.

2. The ball bearing (The modern version).

3. Ever heard of the USS Monitor?


Swedish inventions, all of them.

 

[Dertex]

Tiny Belgium did lots of things
The saxophone, the internal combustion engine, the stroboscope, bakelite, road asphalt, french fries.

Also Belgian scientists were the firs to isolate a cancer cell and came up with the big bang theory, but do those count as inventions? I guess they're discoveries..

 

[aemroth]

Well, i'm portuguese, so...

...

*cricket sound*

Seriously though, apart from stuff associated with maritime discoveries (which most of my countrymen pathetically still hold onto pridefully, despite having been centuries ago), like the contributions of 16th century mathematician and cosmographer Pedro Nunes to maritime navigation, among some other nautical techniques, tools and ships, there's not much to talk of.

All other achievements are, for some strange reason, healthcare-related. There are a few, but since they're mostly achievements and discoveries, and not inventions per se, i'll just cite Egas Moniz, our Medicine Nobel Prize winner, for the Cerebral Angiography and the Prefrontal Leucotomy (aka Lobotomy), for the treatment of certain psychosis.

Ok, yeah, having invented the lobotomy is kinda cool, but it's also a bit lame, since it was always controversial, and was soon replaced with less damaging approaches. But i guess it will have to do.

So yeah, lobotomy

 

[Laughing Man]

Texas made the transistor and the integrated circuit. We are responsible for modern electronics.

Wrong, the first Silicon transistor was made in Texas the first Transistor was invented in Canada and Germany long before America got anywhere near it. The IC comment though is right.

Daaaamn straight! We also invented a thing called the "automobile" and we are responsible for all the Oldsmobile and Fords and Chevys

Lol, not really the car was invented by the Germans and one of the greatest Fords of all time the GT40 was actually designed by a British Team, the other cars are crap so yeah you can keep your claim on inventing them.

I am Scottish and our best discovery has to be Insulin.

 

[nicholaxxx]

The telephone, guess who.
[sub]bitches...[/sub]

 

[ottenni]

Here's a list.

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

My favorite's, the boomerang, black box flight recorder, powered flight, apparently the tank (i thought that was British but hey) and goon.

 

[crimson5pheonix]

Texas made the transistor and the integrated circuit. We are responsible for modern electronics.

Daaaamn straight! We also invented a thing called the "automobile" and we are responsible for all the Oldsmobile and Fords and Chevys

Since when is Texas a country?

Since when has Texas not been a country?

Since it's on a list of states :U

Psh, technicalities.

Texas made the transistor and the integrated circuit. We are responsible for modern electronics.

Wrong, the first Silicon transistor was made in Texas the first Transistor was invented in Canada and Germany long before America got anywhere near it. The IC comment though is right.

Daaaamn straight! We also invented a thing called the "automobile" and we are responsible for all the Oldsmobile and Fords and Chevys

Lol, not really the car was invented by the Germans and one of the greatest Fords of all time the GT40 was actually designed by a British Team, the other cars are crap so yeah you can keep your claim on inventing them.

I am Scottish and our best discovery has to be Insulin.

They were patented, but not made by either German or Canadian scientists. Bell labs made the first working transistor later. Though it is true Texas didn't make the first period, I heard first Silicon and assumed it meant first, that was my bad.

 

[Auric]

Australia.

Nothing i can think of to be perfectly honest.

 

[SnipErlite]

England has quite a few, but:

The lawnmover by Edwin Beard Budding. And that is a fucking awesome name (he also invented the adjustable spanner)

 

[Dessembrae]

well i'm a swede so...the Nobel prize!

 

[Kuchinawa212]

Lightbulb...Do you want to go back to lamps? Do ya?

 

[Mercurio128]

Everything.
That's right, America invented everything, that matters

Except America, which was invented by the English.

 

[CharlieOfNuts]

Danish. I'm going to have to go with LEGO.

 

[Mercurio128]

The Triumph Bonneville - Worlds coolest motorcycle, also good for killing celebrities.

 

[mega48man]

i'm america. we invented the atom bomb. if it weren't for us, japan would of kept going and it created godzilla due to radiation. now we have something to keep those crazy asians in line. BOW BEFORE HIS SCALY TERROR! RAWR!

 

[Deleric]

Texas made the transistor and the integrated circuit. We are responsible for modern electronics.

Damn right.