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

[notfred]

Linux.

 

[Dufman]

Originally posted by: notfred
Linux.

good call

 

[Booster]

Originally posted by: uncJIGGA
Sweden = zipper

Sweden = sexy blone bombshells that make you wanna pull that zipper DOWN

Hey I thought zipper was invented by the YKK company of Japan. I may be wrong, of course.

 

[Skyclad1uhm1]

The clothing is French, the software is Swedish.

Few inventions here btw

 

[Tom]

satellite

 

[HomeBrewerDude]

democracy

 

[Nemesis77]

Originally posted by: Skyclad1uhm1
The clothing is French, the software is Swedish.

Are you suggesting that Linux is a swedish invention :Q?! That is NOT the case! Linus Torvalds is 100% Finnish, he just happens to belong to the swedish-speaking minority in Finland (I guess that's the reason some people think he's a swede).

Adding to the list of inventions:

WWW
Dynamite

 

[Skyclad1uhm1]

Originally posted by: Nemesis77

Originally posted by: Skyclad1uhm1
The clothing is French, the software is Swedish.

Are you suggesting that Linux is a swedish invention :Q?! That is NOT the case! Linus Torvalds is 100% Finnish, he just happens to belong to the swedish-speaking minority in Finland (I guess that's the reason some people think he's a swede).

Fins suck (and some swallow too), that's why the rest of the world sees it as Swedish instead! 😉

 

[Nemesis77]

Originally posted by: Skyclad1uhm1

Originally posted by: Nemesis77

Originally posted by: Skyclad1uhm1
The clothing is French, the software is Swedish.

Are you suggesting that Linux is a swedish invention :Q?! That is NOT the case! Linus Torvalds is 100% Finnish, he just happens to belong to the swedish-speaking minority in Finland (I guess that's the reason some people think he's a swede).

Fins suck (and some swallow too), that's why the rest of the world sees it as Swedish instead! 😉

:Q🙁

 

[Amused]

Originally posted by: Booster

Originally posted by: uncJIGGA
Sweden = zipper

Sweden = sexy blone bombshells that make you wanna pull that zipper DOWN

Hey I thought zipper was invented by the YKK company of Japan. I may be wrong, of course.

Whitcomb L. Judson was an American engineer from Chicago, Illinois, who invented the zipper. Judson patented his "clasp-locker'' on Aug. 29, 1893; later in 1893, he exhibited this new invention at the Chicago World's Fair. He and Lewis Walker founded the Universal Fastener Company to manufacture these fasteners. They never succeeded in selling Judson's new device. Judson died in 1909, before his device became commonly used and well known.

The zipper was improved in 1913 by the Swedish-American engineer, Gideon Sundbach (a former employee of Judson). Sundbach was successful at selling his invention, which he called the "Hookless 2." He sold these fasteners to the US Army, who put zippers on soldiers' clothing and gear during World War I.

The word zipper was coined by B.F. Goodrich in 1923, whose company sold rubber galoshes equipped with zippers. Goodrich is said to have named them zippers because he liked the zipping sound they made when opened and closed.

 

[Haircut]

Originally posted by: Astaroth33
Television was invented by Philo T. Farnsworth, then a 14 year-old potato farmer born in Utah, whose family moved to Idaho.

http://www.time.com/time/time100/scientist/profile/farnsworth.html

Actually Television was invented before that by John Logie Baird, who was Scottish.
Farnsworth invented electronic television, which was superior to Logie Baird's version but came later.

 

[gopunk]

synthetic insulin

 

[Peetoeng]

Kungpao chicken and general tso chicken.

 

[Imaginer]

Originally posted by: Amused

Originally posted by: docmanhattan

Originally posted by: Amused

Originally posted by: BDawg

Originally posted by: Queasy
pr0n?

Who did invent pr0n? Is it attributed to anyone? 🙂

Whoever drew the first picture 😛

X-rated cave drawings?

edit: makes you wonder why they kept drawing all those animals... :Q

LOL

I think cavemen have little use of porn since they run around nekkid eating and looking for food 😉

 

[kleinesarschloch]

alternating current electricity

 

[Nitemare]

Originally posted by: Amused

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."

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.

Kinda like how Ohio and North Carolina are fighting over rights to claim the Wright brothers. 🙂

Everyone knows it was invented in North Carolina. They could not do it in Ohio, because the state of Ohio sucks too much. 😀

 

[hevnsnt]

for those of you who are posting an invention, tell us where it came from so we can argue about it.. 😛

 

[halik]

Lot of modern day physics - relativity (einstein), magnetism (tesla) etc.

 

[bigdog1218]

Actually everyone fighting over where Bell invented the telephone don't have to worry since he didn't invent it.

Us Italians did.

Oh yeah too bad Da Vinci wasn't around in the 19th and 20th century cause we could of also added,

the airplane, the helicopter (and other flying machines), the parachute, the submarine, the armored car, the ballista (a giant crossbow), rapid-fire guns, the centrifugal pump (designed to drain wet areas, like marshes), ball bearings, and the worm gear (a set of gears in which many teeth make contact at once, reducing the strain on the teeth, allowing more pressure to be put on the mechanism)

all stuff he was working on in the 15th and early 16th century, you could say he was a little ahead of his time.

 

[smp]

Originally posted by: kleinesarschloch
alternating current electricity

Thank you




Tesla - Born in Yugoslavia, son of a priest. Later moved to Austria (I think) and then the States.




Now, what stuff _WAS_ invented in the states?

 

[Atlantean]

Basketball, Hockey... The Electric Light Bulb (Henry Woodward invented the electric light bulb in 1874 and sold the patent to Thomas Edison), JAVA, Insulin Process, the Zipper... those were Canadian.

 

[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 🙂

 

[GasX]

The typewriter - UK
Penicillin - UK

Abdominizer - Canada
Electric Light Bulb - Canada
Garbage Bag - Canada
Pacemaker - Canada
iMax - Canada
JAVA Language - Canada
Odometer - Canada
Plexiglass - Canada
Snowmobile - Canada
Television - Canada

Universal Suffrage - Australia
Bionic Ear - Australia
Electric Drill - Australia
Postage Stamps - Australia
Two Stroke Lawnmower - Australia
Latex Gloves - Australia
The Tank - Australia
The Torpedo - Australia

The Zeppelin - Germany
Neon Light - France
Color Photography - France


This is a SHORT list...

 

[Aquaman]

Don't forget Canada = Polio Vaccine 😀

Cheers,
Aquaman

 

[Aquaman]

Oh yeah........... Poutine 😉 😀

Cheers,
Aquaman