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

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Ok, an invention that was created during the lifetime of the U.S.A. - The jet engine.
 
Originally posted by: Red Dawn
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Originally posted by: BDawg
Originally posted by: Queasy
pr0n?
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Who did invent pr0n? Is it attributed to anyone? 🙂
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Whoever drew the first picture 😛
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I thought Porn was invented in India?
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how old is the Kama Sutra? I do remember seeing that the Japanese and Greeks had depictions of sexual situations too (wealthy old men with their young male play things :disgust: )
 
Originally posted by: dpm
hmm..
i can give you some scottish ones

television
telephone
anaesthetics
the steam engine
the pneumatic tyre
radar
refridgerators
and.. um... coathangers.

you know So I married an axe murderer? You remember the dad. Well, that's actually *my* dad
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Whoa there big fella, what's that about the telephone being a scottish invention?!

EDIT: Haha, eh was scottish, but then lived in Canada and the US. I love how all the countries claim it. 😛
link
 
I thought that Bell was living in America when he invented the telephone?

From your link

"Alexander Graham Bell was born in 1847 in Edinburgh, Scotland. He moved to Ontario, and then to the United States, settling in Boston, before beginning his career as an inventor."
 
Originally posted by: hevnsnt
I thought that Bell was living in America when he invented the telephone?

From your link

"Alexander Graham Bell was born in 1847 in Edinburgh, Scotland. He moved to Ontario, and then to the United States, settling in Boston, before beginning his career as an inventor."
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That's what the link says, but I've visited his place of work in Cape Breton, Canada and they certainly say/imply that he invented it in Canada. I really don't know.

It's kind of like how the US said they had the fastest runner in the world when their guy won the 200 m and lost the 100 m. Everybody wants to have the claim to fame.
 
Originally posted by: Skoorb
Originally posted by: hevnsnt
I thought that Bell was living in America when he invented the telephone?

From your link

"Alexander Graham Bell was born in 1847 in Edinburgh, Scotland. He moved to Ontario, and then to the United States, settling in Boston, before beginning his career as an inventor."
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That's what the link says, but I've visited his place of work in Cape Breton, Canada and they certainly say/imply that he invented it in Canada. I really don't know.

It's kind of like how the US said they had the fastest runner in the world when their guy won the 200 m and lost the 100 m. Everybody wants to have the claim to fame.
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Kinda like how Ohio and North Carolina are fighting over rights to claim the Wright brothers. 🙂
 
Originally posted by: Vadatajs
democracy (ancient greece)

the jet engine (nazi germany)
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Was Greece a democracy or a republic? I could have sworn a republic.

Anyways, Nazi Germany also invented the ballistic missle.
 
Originally posted by: Queasy
Originally posted by: Vadatajs
democracy (ancient greece)

the jet engine (nazi germany)
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Was Greece a democracy or a republic? I could have sworn a republic.

Anyways, Nazi Germany also invented the ballistic missle.
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Greece invented the very concept of democracy.
 
This is the story of Sir Frank Whittle, the man who invented the jet engine in 1937. It covers all the technical challenges, ground breaking science, military bureaucracy, political intrigue and interesting characters associated with one of the most important inventions of the 20th century. A fascinating read for anyone walking in Whittle's footsteps and attempting to build their own jet engine.
Funny, that name doesn't sound German to me....


English perhaps?

But according to this a German was working on one at about the same time, so they give them BOTH credit....
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