AMERICA started this discussion 5 years ago#100,623
American Inventions 1801-1994
1801 – James Finley invented the modern Suspension Bridge
1853 – George Crum invented potato chips
1856 – Gail Borden invented condensed milk
1879 – Thomas Alva Edison invented the electric light bulb
1885 – George Eastman invented the photographic film
1887 – Emile Berliner invented the disc record
1887 – Thomas Alva Edison invented the phonograph
1861 – Richard Gatling invented the machine gun
1885 – William Le Baron Jenney invented the skyscraper
1897 – William Morrison and John C Wharton invented cotton candy
1894 – William C Hooker invented the mousetrap
1903 – Orville and Wilbur Wright invented the airplane
1905 – Frank Epperson invented the ice pop
1912 – Lester Wire invented the electric traffic light
1926 – Robert H Goddard invented liquid fuel rocket
1929 – Sam Foster created sunglasses
1929 – Clarence Birdseye created frozen food
1930 – Ruth Wakefield made chocolate chip cookies
1937 – Edwin Land created polarized sun glasses
1937 – George Stibitz invented the modern day digital computer
1938 – Wallace H Carothers invented nylon
1939 – General Motors invented the fully automatic transmission for automobiles and was introduced by Oldsmobile and Cadillac.
1945 – Percy Spencer created the microwave
1945 – J. Robert Oppenheimer invented the nuclear bomb
1950 – Frank X McNamara and Ralph Schneider created the credit card
1950- Marion Donovan invented the disposable diaper
1954 – Hyman Rickover invented the nuclear submarine
1956 – Ernest G Rice invented the Pantyhose
1958 – Jack Kilby invented the integrated circuit
1960 – Forrest Parry invented the magnetic stripe card
1960 – Theodore H Maiman invented the first laser
1962 – Nick Holonyak Jr invented LED lighting
1965 – Jack Russel invented the compact disk
1965 – Stephanie Kwolek invented Kevlar
1968 – Tom Kelly made the lunar module
1969 – Gary Keith created the laser printer
1970 – Robert Maurer, peter Schultz, and Donald Keck invented the fiber optic cable
1971 – John Blankenbaker invented the personal computer
1971 – Ray Tomlinson sent the first email using Arpanet
1973 – Dr Martin Cooper and his team developed the first mobile
1981 – George Mueller created the first space shuttle
1982 – The internet Protocol Suite was founded by the US National Science Foundation.
1994 – The USA air force created the GPS
Anonymous E joined in and replied with this 5 years ago, 2 minutes later, 27 minutes after the original post[^][v]#1,135,197
Funny, none of those names sound Maya or Aztec. They all sound rather...European.
Anonymous F joined in and replied with this 5 years ago, 13 minutes later, 41 minutes after the original post[^][v]#1,135,203
Sure are proud of your achievements in junk food and weapons.
Meta !Sober//iZs joined in and replied with this 5 years ago, 37 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[^][v]#1,135,218
@1,135,193 (Erik !AltRitexT6)
Not to mention food freezes naturally in cold climates. If you said "Clarence Birdseye was the first person to commercialize frozen food" I wouldn't disagree but to say he created frozen food is just retarded.
Meta !Sober//iZs double-posted this 5 years ago, 5 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[^][v]#1,135,220
@1,135,197 (E)
It's pretty weird how these European guys keep inventing stuff ?
Kook !!rcSrAtaAC joined in and replied with this 5 years ago, 35 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[^][v]#1,135,232
@1,135,193 (Erik !AltRitexT6) @1,135,218 (Meta !Sober//iZs)
It's a pretty interesting story. You should read a book or listen to a podcast on it. He was a revolutionary
Kook !!rcSrAtaAC double-posted this 5 years ago, 10 minutes later, 2 hours after the original post[^][v]#1,135,237
Was it the Greeks or Turkish who invented sodomy? Either way, you are in their debt
Anonymous A (OP) replied with this 5 years ago, 6 minutes later, 2 hours after the original post[^][v]#1,135,241
@1,135,197 (E)
Pretty sure they only inventing things like staring at the sun, fucking dogs at their birthday parties and sacrificing 14 year old virgin girls to the spirits to try and make it rain.
Kook !!rcSrAtaAC replied with this 5 years ago, 41 minutes later, 2 hours after the original post[^][v]#1,135,258