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The saddest part about this is how they patented it so it would be practically free and accessible for everyone. Banting would be so ashamed if he saw what was happening to insulin now 😔
That kind gesture killed his dream
Frederick Banting, Canada.
Trains.
Planes.
Automobiles.
Damn what a useful country
Wait a while, there are bad things too
Wifi, Google Maps, black box recorder, pacemakers, Wheel of Goon.
Are you sure its not called "Goon of fortune"?
Now that you mention it.
Strayaa
Also ultrasound, cochlear implants, electric drills, TV.
We also had the first 'feature film' at 80 minutes runtime in 1906 which is kind of cool.
Wheel of Goon
Boy. That can have some interesting connotations in 2024.
It’s also known as the goon of fortune if it makes it any worse lol
Don't forget ultrasound and cochlear implants
Pretty sure Penicillin as well
The antibiotic properties of penicillin were discovered by Fleming, a Brit. The oral drug was developed from this discovery by Florey (an Australian) but not in Australia. Apparently Fleming visited Florey's project once and said it would never work and left. The fact that you can go to a pharmacy and get anitbiotics ultimately owes more to Florey but would not have occurred unless the natural properties were known... but then it is arguable that once Fleming made his discovery that another person MIGHT had developed the drug.... hmmm.
The invention wasn't the hard part, the development to scale up the production process was hard and then it was patented. Penicillin was a very expensive drug back then, only available to the happy few in the 'developed' world. Then the FAO in Rome hired some British scientists to circumvent the patent and devise another production method. When they succeeded the FAO released the method into the public domain, and the price of penicillin dropped to pennies per dose and that probably saved millions of lives. And many other antibiotics were discovered and cheaply produced using the same methods.
Source: my wife's grandmother was part of that team
What an awesome family history
The things you learn on Reddit 😊
Polymer money
Basketball. Oh and insulin.
And zippers!
Zipper was invented by an American whitcomb l. Judson in 1893.
Basketball was invented by a Canadian but he was in the United States at the time - based on OP's wording of the question does that count as invented "in" the US?
Poutine and Hawaiian Pizza too.
and the paint roller
And the telephone.
Lot of folks listing inventions that don't really have a clear inventor
Flight, we figured out how to fly and go faster than 50mph
First tansatlantic flight, breaking the sound barrier, going hypersonic, first scramjet, and thr only interstellar spacecraft.
- thats what....
Like the concept of zero? Are you from Mesopotamia or something?
They might mean the numeral. We use Arabic numerals and before that, Western cultures didn't have a way to write "0" as a number.
rude work aware scale sheet plant act six bedroom aromatic
Way ahead of them....
Aren't there many countries that claim to be inventor of "0"?
I don’t know I was kidding 🤷♀️
Alright India, thanks for nothing.
I see what you did there... well done.
The internet
Which part of it? Depending on your answer you could be American or Swiss
He's obviously Al Gore.
Democracy, history, philosophy, scientific method, theatre, feta etc etc etc
Feta is definetely the most important of those! delicious.
Philosophy wasn't invented in Greece.. some say that "Western philosophy" originated in Greece, which is arguable, but philosophy as a whole has no clear point of origin, but recorded instances of philosophy in East Asia and South-East Asia are significantly older than Greek philosophy, often times making the same philosophical conclussion as the Greeks would later on, so it's often assumed that its possible Greek philosophers were inspired or influenced by those writings.
You don't "invent" history either.. it's a common concept with no point of origin.
And regarding Democracy, it's similarly unclear about who it was that first came up with Democracy, Could have been the ancient Mesopotamians or states in the Indian subcontinent.
You'd have to adhere to very strict and form-fitting definitions of all 3 to make them fit for Greece being the first.
You definitely didn't invent democracy as a concept. That predates the notion of countries and likely even the written word.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_democracy
But the term, and the way that it's generally understood today, definitely owes a lot to Greece and its very influential philosophers and writers.
Regarding science, the Greeks played an early and important role in establishing empirical methods, but they never really followed the critical steps that make the modern Scientific Method so powerful, which is why they were also wrong about so much.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_scientific_method
The most important aspect of the modern scientific method, the thing that sets it apart from other ways of learning from empirical observation, is in the notion of conducting experiments that are designed to falsify your hypothesis. That aspect wasn't even really formalized until the 1930s, but even its earliest versions didn't come about until roughly Isaac Newton.
Television, telephone, pneumatic tire, refrigeration. The list goes on!
Bonus! One of our scientists discovered penicillin (:
Don't forget the deep fried mars bar and the munchie box. Oh and according to the big yin, copper wire was invented by two of our fellow scots fighting over a penny.
We invented most modern technology.
Like Golf
And the deep fried mars bar.
Alexander Graham Bell was Scottish, but he developed the telephone in Canada, then moved to the USA to patent it. All three countries seem to claim the telephone is theirs.
Seems like all three have a decent claim to that, we could share?
He used to test the phones in the mining pits near where I grew up in the UK so he definitely was working on it in the UK. Given he's from Scotland, it's a British invention.
I had to think for a second thinking it could have been Scotland or Canada (mainly because I misread "penicilin" as "insulin" and I know Graham Bell lived in Canada).
Plus, you brought cloning to the world via Dolly. And after visiting the National Museum of Scotland, I can see why you needed to preserve many inventions, as I, an ignorant Yank, thought they were English inventions.
Airplane
Electric car starter
Pop top tab on pop cans
Cash register
They were all invented in Dayton, OH, USA.
So were radar detectors for use in automobiles...
Cars
Your profile doesn't look very German.
Germans first bolted an ICE to buggy, true. But it was a Cadillac that first designed the contemporary controls and layout of driving. Clutch brake throttle pedals. Signal stalk. Placement of gear shift on right (ignore the limeys).
After nearly 100 years it's stable. Theres been some small flirting with change, like porche or saab puting ignition in odd locations, or novel gear shifters on the steering column or push button on the dash. But it defaults to that old standard, even into EVs.
Without saying which country I guess you can list any invention ever made! Hairnets, pencils, hats
McDonald’s
Vaccines
Instant Coffee
The 3 point seat belt (by Volvo).
Also the V70R, a wagon I lust after daily.
And the 850r (sedan or wagon)!
Chocolate Chip Cookies
Valium. Im sorry world
But also neck ties, so thats cool
PillCam
Airplanes
The internet
Disposable syringe. In 1956 Colin Murdoch a New Zealand veterinarian and pharmacist created the first disposable syringe. He would also invent the first childproof medicine cap as well as the tranquillizer gun.
Beaver Tails.
Standard time and the Robertson screw
Airplane.
Rock and Roll
The light bulb
WiFi. Australia
Halloween
WiFi.
Google maps, cochlear implant, electric drill, WIFI and ultrasound scanner to name a few, guess which country
The microscope, the stock market, the submarine, international maritime law, the rollable firehose, those eye-test charts with the letters on them, 4-wheel drive automobile, the speedcamera (sorry), cassette tapes, CDs (joint Phillips/Sony, so a joint effort with Japan), bluetooth, WLAN.
Quite a bit more than I thought actually..
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Denmark/Germany? That's here the Angles came from and where the English language began.
iPhones
From my city, nevermind country!
The Hypodermic Syringe
Colour photography
Diving nose plugs, ear plugs and even that rope to wrap around your waist so you won't get lost at sea.
The cheese slicer.
Motorsport
Chocolate chip cookies. You're welcome.
Fresnel lens
The first ever youth hostel was opened in my hometown
Photoelectric effect (Einstein's Nobel Prize)
Planck constant
Wi-Fi (au)
The Pen Ball (Ladislao Biro, 1943)
The Coronary Bypass (Dr. René Favaloro, 1960)
Artificial Heart (Domingo Liotta and Denton Cooley, 1969)
Animated Cartoon (Quirino Cristiano, 1917)
Identification by Dactilar Prints (Juan Vucetich, 1891)
Cardiac Pacemaker (Dr. Francisco de Pedro, 1979)
Helicopter (Raúl Pateras de Pescara, 1920)
The Tango (1886, anonimous)
Electlric Picana (Leopoldo Lugones, 1930)
Retractable Stretcher (Claudio Blotta, 1994)
Referee whistle,
Flying machines,
Pavlova…
0, zero. The decimal number system.
Buttons, Number O, Decimal number system, Shampoo
Far too many to mention. So take your pick from this list.
The minigun.
"GE: We bring good things to life!"
The industrial revolution started in my area, so I guess a lot of stuff.
Bluetooth, WiFI, Microscope, Stock exchange, 4 wheel drive, submarine.
Bluetooth was invented in Sweden, modern wifi in Australia, microscope in Netherlands, first 4 wheel patent was in Britain.
Bluetooth was invented by a Dutch national working for Ericsson, I'm not sure if he actually worked in Sweden at that time. Ericcsson has been active (as in, having facilities and developing things) in the Netherlands since the 1920s. The WLAN protocol that formed the basis for what we now call WiFi was invented in the Netherlands, and the first 4-wheel drive automobile was produced by Spyker in the Netherlands.
As with many inventions, it's often a sequence of events and patents that lead to development.
the internet
Planes, at least in the normal sense.
Cinema and cameras
Rap and Jazz
Paint rollers
plastic garbage bags
poutine
Google Maps
Planes.
Kama sutra
The Internet
The internet
The paint roller! You're welcome.
Also Hawaiian pizza. I'm sorry. But also Insulin?
Panama canal
Linux
Wifi
Wifi
Jock strap hard cup (Guelph 1927) and Pizza Pops
Coca Cola
Nuclear weapons.
Coca-Cola
Instant coffee
Telephone
Snowmobiles
Planes
Color TV!
The telephone
Being a crazy ass conspiracy theorist and getting elected to government positions
Ass. Yep, literally the thing you’re sitting on. You’re welcome.
Thanks, I love it!
The stock market
Lithium Batteries
Heart transplants
Pineapple lumps 🍍
Computers, X-rays (well, creating and using them), electric light bulb and the most important one, coffee filters.
Kiss, apparently
Cochlear implant.
Pepperoni fuxk yeah that's American baby invented in the 1910s by Italian immigrants.
Anti-ophidic serum! Also, just found out: caller ID
- Popcorn
- Chewing Gum
- Oral Contraceptives
- Anti-graffitti paint
- Indelible ink
why does no one say the Country? OP never said guess the country. can fucks on reddit start adding links or en example. so we don't have to google shit.
The printing press, the wheel, fire, space flight, democracy, champagne and smart phones. I'm from Australia.
Cars, Lightbulbs, Printing Press, mp3, computers, heroin, nitrogen based fertilizer
Dollars
Tequila!
Skype, kazaa
Obvious one, paper
The world wide web.
Sliced bread
List is loooong, most of it is regarding electricity and radio.
Submarines and Helicopters. Spain.
Shark nets
The Parachute
FIrst Radio
Frozen Pizza - Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
The steam engine, World wide Web, cats eyes
contact lenses
The Blues and Jazz, and eventually Rock and Roll.
The number 0
Fingerprints
Black box flight recorders
Wifi technology
Electric Drill
Pacemaker
and of course... the Goon Bag
Edit: Australia
Maths ...... Yes I am sorry and I will pay for everyone's therepy
Baldur's gate 3 ? Saxophone ? French Fries ?
Neither of this is use by the rest of the world
MP3 and the heater for rear windows in cars.
Microscope
Aye, you're welcome.
Airplanes
MRI Scanner and ATMs.
America.
Football
Which kind? Soccer or American football? I assume you mean soccer, but I just want to be sure.
CT scan/Catscan (medical imaging)
Pratley putty. It was used on US spacecraft that went to the moon and used for repairs on the Golden Gate Bridge.
Ocean Guardian, used to protect against sharks.
Dolos, a large concrete block to protect harbour walls.
There's quite a few South African inventions that gets used world wide.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_South_African_inventions_and_discoveries
Crime
Mesopotamia?
Wine.
I knew wine was big in Georgia, but I did not realize it was invented there. That's cool.
Sauna's
USA. The internet, GPS satellites, anything with transistors, airplane flight
Insulin.