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So now we're wanking as to how many individuals invented something in one's respective country of origin?

And this must be what, the 1000th thread we've had on this?

Yes, we get it the forum has an anti-American slant. Get over it and stop making threads about it. It only incites more nationalistic wankage as demonstrated by this last page.

Uh, America had more great people in the course of it's short existence. (too lazy to name them, Americans should know) Besides, Shakespeare is boring, Drake was a pirate, Tolkein and Rowling wrote friggin books, Henry IVVV is nothing too be proud of, etc. etc.

Shakespeare...well he can get a little boring, but watch a modern interpretation of Romeo and Juliet.
Yeah Drake was a pirate. He still shaped the world though. Of course Tolkein and Rowling wrote books...thats was the point...They are both immense books and films.
Who is Henry IVVV? ive never heard of a Henry hm...I = 1 V=5...16th, do you know Roman Numerals...? I,V,X,C,M OK? I - 1, V -5, X - 10, C - 100, M - 1000
and what is this etc?
oh dear lord, you have instigated more debate my friend. I never mentioned any American artists/novelists. But I am ver ytired of talking about this. I will quote Voltaire who said:

"I say to you that we must regard all men as our brothers. What, a Turk my brother? A Chinaman my brother? A Jew? A Siamese? Yes, without doubt: are we not all children of the same Father, and creatures of the same God?

*I am an atheist but I still believe this quote still has meaning.*

I like you :) you can actually debate. I dont know of that many American artists as in painting though.
I love the quote. Especially the way Voltaire has picked out nations, and then plonked jew in the middle of it...The quote has deep meaning. But don't brothers still fight til they mature?

Uhhh Soyut, the chu-ku-nu was

a. a crossbow

b. not repeating or automatic as it had to be pulled back with each shot, therefore making it semiautomatic. (if your referring to the ones in age of empires 2, with the cranks, those aren't real. They were calked and fired simultaneously with one lever.)

Also, whoever said they hated the US and everyone else for every thing all of them have done, your really wasting your time if you hate everybody. If you blank everything, you effectively make it non-existant as it just because a set of conditions everyone assumes to be in affect. Say the f-word between every other word and eventaully people will just ignore and assume that it is just going to be there, rather than react every time it's said.

Shakespeare is boring

SACRILEGE!!! AAAAAAGGGHHH!!!

Drake was a pirate

Yea, he was really a cool guy! :cool:

Shakespeare is not boring. Dickens is fucking boring.They're both about as interesting as watching a blank wall. DNA on the other hand. If ever there was a god, it was that guy. Shame he's dead.

They're both about as interesting as watching a blank wall. DNA on the other hand. If ever there was a god, it was that guy. Shame he's dead.

I dispare sometimes. Sahkespeare boring, maybe in soem mad sterotype. There are mroe things in heaven and earth...ect...

About:

Henry Kaiser: I believe we can attribute many modern road and ship-building techniques to him(though I'm sure you can correct me on that). It is clear that he is not the father of all modern ship and road construction. I just wikipedied him and assumed too much.

Automatic weapons: The first true automatic weapon from what I understand was the Chu-no-ku or something invented by the Chinese. I said "automatic gun" not weapon or multi shot gun. Though it is interesting to see the amout of detail you provided in your rebuttal.

Steam engine: My bad, I was thinking of robert fulton who invented the steamboat and the submarine.

production line: Sorry, wikipedia says Henry Ford Invented the "Assembly Line."

Alexander Graham Bell: Yes he was Scotish. oops. But he spent most of his life in America, did most of his reaserch in Boston and invented the telephone in America. The first telephone company was started in America.

Bessemer Process: invented by the American William Kelly. Patented by Henry Bessemer.

Genetic engineering: has fed billions. And today its cloning sheep and trying to cure cancer. What an awful thing.

So, keeping score that leaves America with, the airplane, the lightbulb, modern steel production, the personal computer, the machine gun, the steam boat, the telegraph.

I didn't even mention sugan evaporation ( Norbert Rillieux) vulcanized rubber (Charles Goodyear), Cotton Gin(Eli Whitney ), power tools(Thomas Davenport), steel bridge (James Buchanan Eads), Air conditioning (Willis H. Carrier ), Heart Difibulator (William Bennett Kouwenhoven), nylon (Wallace H. Carothers), lasers (Theodore H. Maiman)

Wanna keep going?

*pulls down pants* Also, mine is bigger than yours.


Right than...

The light bulb - Joseph Swan


Modern Steel - on William Kelly - His experiments began in 1847. The same process was later independently invented and patented by Henry Bessemer - independantly - Kelly should have got off his ass sooner.

The Steam Boat - 'In 1736 Jonathan Hulls took out a patent in England for a Newcomen engine-powered steamboat, but it was the improvement in steam engines by James Watt that made the concept feasible. William Henry of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, having learned of Watt's engine on a visit to England, made his own engine and in 1763 attempted to put it in a boat. The boat sank, and while he made an improved model he does not seem to have had much success, though he may have inspired others.' - Well America invented the first open top steam powered submarine, I'll give you that!

The telegraph - 'The first commercial electrical telegraph was constructed by Sir William Fothergill Cooke and entered use on the Great Western Railway.'

Sugan evaporation does not exist. (I thin yu ment Sugar)

Vulcanized rubber - 'Most textbooks have it that Charles Goodyear (1800–1860) was first to use sulfur to vulcanize rubber. However we know today that ancient Mesoamericans achieved the same results in 1600 BC'

Steel bridge - 'The Iron Bridge' is beyond compare

Air conditioning - The ancient Egyptians were known to circulate aqueduct water through the walls of certain houses to cool them - they got you beat.

Heart defibrillator - I thought it was the Lithuanian Bernard Lown.

Nylon - well Bill Gates needs his suits

The laser - Go on then you got me on that one. An American invention that works.

And for the rest:-
http://www.answers.com/topic/english-inventions-and-discoveries

I dont think the match is in there but that was invented by a fellow from Stockon.

*Glows with pride at my great nation whilst any retorts will come in a strange version of his native tounge*

Because it's good for the soul, the skin. And just plain fun.

Sounds like an advertisement for some sort of herbal lotion...:confused:

Right than...

The light bulb - Joseph Swan


Modern Steel - on William Kelly - His experiments began in 1847. The same process was later independently invented and patented by Henry Bessemer - independantly - Kelly should have got off his ass sooner.

The Steam Boat - 'In 1736 Jonathan Hulls took out a patent in England for a Newcomen engine-powered steamboat, but it was the improvement in steam engines by James Watt that made the concept feasible. William Henry of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, having learned of Watt's engine on a visit to England, made his own engine and in 1763 attempted to put it in a boat. The boat sank, and while he made an improved model he does not seem to have had much success, though he may have inspired others.' - Well America invented the first open top steam powered submarine, I'll give you that!

The telegraph - 'The first commercial electrical telegraph was constructed by Sir William Fothergill Cooke and entered use on the Great Western Railway.'

Sugan evaporation does not exist. (I thin yu ment Sugar)

Vulcanized rubber - 'Most textbooks have it that Charles Goodyear (1800–1860) was first to use sulfur to vulcanize rubber. However we know today that ancient Mesoamericans achieved the same results in 1600 BC'

Steel bridge - 'The Iron Bridge' is beyond compare

Air conditioning - The ancient Egyptians were known to circulate aqueduct water through the walls of certain houses to cool them - they got you beat.

Heart defibrillator - I thought it was the Lithuanian Bernard Lown.

Nylon - well Bill Gates needs his suits

The laser - Go on then you got me on that one. An American invention that works.

And for the rest:-
http://www.answers.com/topic/english-inventions-and-discoveries

I dont think the match is in there but that was invented by a fellow from Stockon.

*Glows with pride at my great nation whilst any retorts will come in a strange version of his native tounge*

Oh yeah waht about, the....Big Mac?

Alright. I concede to you. America's history of invention is just nothing compared to the rest of the world. I am now going to go play halo for 3 hours on easy to rebuild my broken self-confidence.

*walks away starring at the ground*

Oh yeah waht about, the....Big Mac?

Alright. I concede to you. America's history of invention is just nothing compared to the rest of the world. I am now going to go play halo for 3 hours on easy to rebuild my broken self-confidence.

*walks away starring at the ground*

Just as well he didn't call you up on claiming to have invented the 'airplane', as you colonial upstarts like to call it.
The French invented the powered aircraft (pulled by a horse, if I remember right) and the self-powered aircraft.

No, those are pretty stupid reasons. There's more to a country than its government.

But in a democracy the public are responsible for the election of their government. That is the logic by which the USA justifies sanctions against the Palestinians.

This is double standard in itself illustrates part of the problem. I.e. that there appear to be double standards between American stated values and American actions.

But in a democracy the public are responsible for the election of their government. That is the logic by which the USA justifies sanctions against the Palestinians.

This is double standard in itself illustrates part of the problem. I.e. that there appear to be double standards between American stated values and American actions.

Well put.