Your country's best invention

[Silly_Billy]

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.

He said his people discovered it and that is irrefutable. Yeah, people knew about it before and it is like claiming you discovered Kentucky after you took a wrong turn and saw a road-sign that said Kentucky, but it is a discovery none-the-less.

 

[Electro-coma]

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!

Point for television goes to Russia. Frankly, I'm glad that my grand-grand parents were from Germany.

 

[Crowns18]

color T.V. But the americans took the idea from us so i would say TEQUILA!

 

[RhombusHatesYou]

Some of my personal favourites of Australian inventions are:

The Photocopier
The Cochlea Implant (bionic ear)
METALSTORM weaponry

 

[Tharwen]

I have no idea, there is so many of them [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_inventions_and_discoveries]

The television perhaps?

 

[ThatDudeThere]

The Molotov cocktail from Finland.

 

[RhombusHatesYou]

He said his people discovered it and that is irrefutable. Yeah, people knew about it before and it is like claiming you discovered Kentucky after you took a wrong turn and saw a road-sign that said Kentucky, but it is a discovery none-the-less.

Fine, then I demand credit for discovering New Zealand from when I flew there a few years ago.

 

[El Poncho]

I have no idea, there is so many of them [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_inventions_and_discoveries]

The television perhaps?

Possibly, too bad when he made it there was fuck all on

 

[PhiMed]

Nuuuu-uuuuke!
America made the first nuclear bomb, and the first shuttle that could feasibly sustain human life.

Wait, you're saying the nuclear bomb, something that inspired fear in an entire generation and had the capacity to destroy all life on earth, is America's greatest invention? Okay then! Remind me to never be alone in the same room with you.

If by "great" he means "most influential", then I think it'd be difficult to argue with him, especially if one adopts your view of its impact.

 

[Sgt Doom]

Eh, can't think of anything quite on the level of the transistor that came from Finland, but we did create Linux, which I suppose is pretty neat.

 

[TheYellowCellPhone]

The deep fried Twinkie.

In seriousness, the nuclear bomb.

 

[Lonan]

Canada: lightbulb.
http://www.cbc.ca/inventions/inventions.html?inventionID=29
The lightbulb revo=\lutio=\nised illuminatio=\n techno=\lo=\gy. It was much cheaper, and allo=\wed the mainstay o=\f mo=\dern techno=\lo=\gy to=\beco=\me do=\mestic: electricity. I wo=\uld call it the best intentio=\n in human histo=\ry.

I also=\ spilled milk o=\n my keybo=\ard, which is why I'm having pro=\blems with my O+| key. O+|Uside the o=\n9screen keybo=\ard there isnt much I can do=\ except tedio=\usly delete after every single O+|.

 

[dark-amon]

The paperclip. Norway, outside art, money and culture, we got squat.

 

[BlackWidower]

Nuuuu-uuuuke!
America made the first nuclear bomb, and the first shuttle that could feasibly sustain human life.

Wait, you're saying the nuclear bomb, something that inspired fear in an entire generation and had the capacity to destroy all life on earth, is America's greatest invention? Okay then! Remind me to never be alone in the same room with you.

If by "great" he means "most influential", then I think it'd be difficult to argue with him, especially if one adopts your view of its impact.

True, but when I think, "greatest," I tend to think of it in a positive way. You know, not evil.

 

[Xero Scythe]

please ignore, I made a mistake. thank you.

 

[-Torchedini-]

The dutch invented New-York

Or founded it. Doesn't matter anyway

 

[RamirezDoEverything]

United States of America, Airplane, Wilbur and Orville Wright

 

[crimson5pheonix]

Nuuuu-uuuuke!
America made the first nuclear bomb, and the first shuttle that could feasibly sustain human life.

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

no, they had the first drone in space. It was called Sputnik, and that was what fueled the red or dead arguments. America got the first human in space.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri_Gagarin Russians won that round.

 

[Pegghead]

The crankless engine, thanks to us Aussies all of you not fortunate enough to live on our shores can drive your cars without cranking them first.