Your country's best invention

[mastermarty]

let's see, I'm dutch, so:
-telescopes.
-glasses.
-we discovered bacteria.
-clocks (not sure of what kind).
-windmilles and watermilles.
-ice skating.

but, i'm not sure about everyone of them (especialy number 2, 5, 6).

 

[painfull2006]

England.... it has to be the language you are reading... YEAH THAT'S RIGHT! WE OWWWNNN!!!

 

[Snor]

as the dutch have always traveled the world etc. some of their inventions are credited to other countries (such as the submarine, dutch dude, lived in the uk).

here are my favorites:

the compact disk (in colaboration with sony)
the telescope
the microscope

furthermore we discovered

sperm and australia

 

[Snor]

ah darn just a little to late.

you are right about windmills, kinda, we invented windmills to be used for water drainage and sawmill duty

edit quote doesn't work and to lazy to bother, i was referring to my fellow dutchie some posts above me

 

[GundamSentinel]

-snip-

I did say there was a mix up. :L

I know, not blaming you for anything, just stating the facts. ^^ Sorry for confusion.

 

[SomeBoredGuy]

We invented Doctor Who. I'm English.

 

[TheDuckbunny]

furthermore we discovered

sperm and australia

Never thought I'd see those two mentioned correctly in the same sentence.
Oh, and your username is awesomely dutch.

 

[Silly_Billy]

I hope we have an African person just say, "People."

 

[Private Custard]

USA, the computer, the car, the TV, and the plane. WE WIN

I've said it once in this thread, but education is good, so I'll say it again. The car thing is Germanys win.

Benz Patent Motorwagen.

Also, television? Not even close to an American invention.

You can have the plane thing though, that's a truly awesome invention!

 

[JayDig]

Canadian here. I'm torn between the telephone and the push-up bra.

Don't forget insulin. Being diabetic would suck even more without that.

Oh, someone already mentioned that.

 

[Electro-coma]

The shuttle thing is wrong. It was the Russians. They beat us with first human, first woman, first dog and first space station in space. But we got the moon so lets call it even

Yeah...we're even. But Mars will be ours!!Muahaaa!!*ahem* Just kiddin'.

 

[Totenkopf]

I can't decide between the MG 42 and the letterpress

 

[Professor Cubbage]

The telephone.

 

[PhiMed]

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

America was the first country to mass produce automobiles, but we didn't invent them. Depending on how you define "automobile", the credit for that goes to one of the following: China, Russia, or Germany.

We invented manned flight and interchangable machine parts. So we've got that going for us, which is nice.

Oh, and since a lot of Americans are putting their state, Tennessee invented the atom bomb, the touch screen, and Jack Daniels. Whoohoo!

 

[Soviet Heavy]

im scottish so the telephone

Um, I think that was Canadian....

 

[TheSeventhLoneWolf]

Sheds, perhaps.

Everything good that came out of britain came from a shed.

 

[RhombusHatesYou]

furthermore we discovered

australia

Sure you did... if you ignore the Australian Aboriginals, Torres Strait Islanders, Papuans, various Indonesian peoples, various Philipino peoples and various Chinese peoples. Quite honestly Australia had the living shit discovered out of it before any white people wandered over.

 

[Davrel]

The English language.

England/Britain has produced far more than its fair share of great inventions, but the language is the best one of all.