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What World Changing Inventions were *NOT* Invented by the US?

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Originally posted by: Peetoeng
Kungpao chicken and general tso chicken.
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Damn straight...these two inventions surpass anything the US has done. Well those 2 and Hot and Sour Soup.
 
Originally posted by: smp
Originally posted by: Aquaman
Oh yeah........... Poutine 😉 😀

Cheers,
Aquaman
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we're also responsible for Pam Anderson and Shania Twain
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Don't forget all the canadian comedians & Celine Dion (but she is in Vegas now)

Cheers,
Aquaman
 
The question should be what invention did the US really do and not just claim it as its own?

Especially pre-1950 almost nothing!


After 1950:
almost everything. But what truely ingenious inventions were there after 1950 except some genetics stuff? Almost none.
Almost all the inventions of the last 50 years were just improvements on existing concepts/inventions.
 
Originally posted by: everman
Chinese invented porcelin and the bellows needed to make a hotter fire to create better quality steel. They also invented the compass and many other interesting things. What's really interesting is that they had a giant navy with ships many times larger than those of venice Italy, had they ever travelled there the world would be totally different. But they didn't, and got rid of the navy convinced it was a waste of time...

Just a really big what if? in history 🙂
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according to this guy the chinese did use their ships... too bad they f*cked everything up after😛 1421: The Year China Discovered America
 
Originally posted by: smp
Originally posted by: kleinesarschloch
alternating current electricity
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Thank you




Tesla - Born in Yugoslavia, son of a priest. Later moved to Austria (I think) and then the States.
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tesla did some other stuff too..
fluorosecent lights, (spelling)
lots of work with radio
snazzy turbine deal..
tesla coil (duh..)

lots of other crazy electronics stuff. (albeit some of it was developed after he moved to the US...)
 
Originally posted by: everman
Chinese invented porcelin and the bellows needed to make a hotter fire to create better quality steel. They also invented the compass and many other interesting things. What's really interesting is that they had a giant navy with ships many times larger than those of venice Italy, had they ever travelled there the world would be totally different. But they didn't, and got rid of the navy convinced it was a waste of time...

Just a really big what if? in history 🙂
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Actually, they did use their fleet, and there is evidence that they made it out to Africa. The problem is, everyone they ran into was less developed than them, so they really didn't find any reason to keep going, as it all came out as a financial loss.

 
Originally posted by: coolVariable
The question should be what invention did the US really do and not just claim it as its own?

Especially pre-1950 almost nothing!


After 1950:
almost everything. But what truely ingenious inventions were there after 1950 except some genetics stuff? Almost none.
Almost all the inventions of the last 50 years were just improvements on existing concepts/inventions.
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That's a bit unfair on your countrymen. An American invented the silicon chip I presume, which is major. Plus mass production was mostly American I believe. America has done lots of things.

However to answer the question. Here are a few.

Industrial Revolution(UK), Radar(UK), Evolution(UK), Internal Combustion Engine(Germany), Basis of modern physics (UK/Germany), Rockectry (US/Germany/Russia), Telegraph (UK), Steam Engine(UK?), Nukes(Germany?), Penecillin(UK)

That's just a few I can think of. I have no idea who discovered bacteria, atoms, and many other important 'inventions'. Actually, who invented modern rifles? As in non-muskets?


 
relativity and QM.

EDIT I understand Einstien spent his later years in the US and revoked his german citizenship, but he was by birth German.
 
Originally posted by: ed21x
the cotton gin...
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????

That was invented by Eli Whitney, a African American.

He also found about 1,000,001 uses for peanuts.
Edit: Or maybe that was another A/A.

This I DIDN'T know though!

While Eli Whitney is best remembered as the inventor of the cotton gin, it is often forgotten that he was also the father of the mass production method. In 1798 he figured out how to manufacture muskets by machine so that the parts were interchangeable. It was as a manufacturer of muskets that Whitney finally became rich. If his genius led King Cotton to triumph in the South, it also created the technology with which the North won the Civil War.
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