America v England. The brain war has begun!

Okay, big country, big population America, put down your landmark inventions that have made a significant positive difference to the world.

You guys from GB do the same. Here we go Britain makes it's first strike and it's a biggy:

Penicillin (Alexandra flemming).

Linotype, invented by Ottmar Merhenthaler (1886, Baltimore, MD)

The machine, which Thomas Edison called the eighth wonder of the world, revolutionized the printing and publishing industry. Prior to this invention, all type had to be set by hand, one letter at a time. The Linotype ultimately led to a more literate society because it enabled books and all other printed materials to be produced efficiently and economically.

Great topic, BTW.

AC and DC power circuits, invented by Tesla and Edison, both in the USA.

The modern radio, also invented by Tesla, in the USA

The Integrated Circuit, used in computers and calculators - Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce

USA

thomas edison: and thats just one american!!
the lightbulb!!!
first movie projector
first phonograph
the telegraph

Polio Vaccine

Jonas Salk (USA)

I would give equal credit to Albert Sabin for the development of an effective polio vaccine. Even though his breakthrough in preventing polio came 5 years after Salk’s, Sabin's was the superior vaccine and the one now used almost universally.

Transistor, the essential component of integrated chips and all modern electronics.

Developed in 1947 by John Bardeen, Walter Brattain, and William Shockley, at Bell Laboratories of Murray Hill, NJ. All three scientists were awarded the Nobel Prize in physics in 1956.
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Come on you Brits!! You've got plenty of big ones.

Sean, radio and communications were invented by Marconi in UK!

Some done by British : -

Television - John Logie Baird 1924-1925

HTML CODE WWW - Tim Berners Lee 1955

Lawn Mower - Edwin B Budding 1830

Carbonated Water - Joseph Priestley 1767

Cat's Eye Road Reflector - Percy Shaw 1933

Crossword Puzzle - Arthur Wynne 1913

First Light Bulb - Sir Humphry Davy 1800

Umbrella - Samuel Fox 1852

Reflecting Telescope - James Gregory 1663

Spinning Jenny - James Hargreaves 1770

Kelvin Scale - Lord Kelvin

Rubber Band - Stephen Perry 1845

First Radar - Sir Robert Alexander Watson -Watt 1935

Refrigerator - William Cullen 1748

Sandwich - John Montagu 1762

Screwdriver - Earliest 15th century

Steam Engine - James Watt 1765

Radio & Communications - Guglielmo Marconi, an Italian inventor residing and working in UK, first promoted radio in 1895 and pioneered first radio wave transmissions (trans-atlantic) on 12 December, 1901. Awarded Nobel prize in 1909. Known by all as the "Father of Radio." He was the first to acheive inospheric radio wave propagation.

On the matter of inventions, we should also note 4 great inventions that were not invented by USA or UK but by China and these were : -

Paper Making - Cai Lun 105AD

Printing - Bi Sheng 1045AD

Gun Powder - 8th Century AD

Compass - 3rd Century AD

JPM, Telsa may have developed the radio but he never got it to work properly. Marconi is the first pioneer to actually make the radio and long range communication work and possible. He was not British but an Italian living in UK.

Telsa may have invented it but never got it off the ground. In 1943 he was given credit for inventing it.
But, you should note in the 1860's James C Maxwell, a Scottish physicist was the first to actually predict the existence of radio waves. In 1886, Heinrich Rudolph Hertz, a German physicist was the first to demonstrate that rapid variation of electrical current could be projected into free space in the form of radio waves. The frequency spectrum in use today all utilize the Hetrz as a measure of radio frequency (i.e. Hertz, Kilohertz, Megahertz, Gigahertz etc.)

Marconi was the first one to pioneer and prove the feasibility of radio for practical use in communications. He sent and received the first broadcasted radio signals in Italy in 1895.

In 1899 he sent the first wireless signal from the English Channel and two years later in another transmission test received the letter "S" in Morse code between England and New Foundland, this was the first successful long range radio transmission.

Mel's thread says landmark inventions.

Inventions from other countries : -

Germany:

Geiger counter - Hans Wilhelm Geiger 1908-12

X-Rays - Wilhelm Von Roentgen 1895

France:

Aqualung - Jacques-Yves Cousteau 1943

Braille - Louis Braille 1829

Cassegrain telescope - Sieur Guillaume Cassegrain
1672

Gyroscope - Jean Bernard Leon Focault 1852

Metric System - Academy of Sciences of Paris 1790

Parachute - Louis Sebastien Lenormand 1783

First Sewing Machine - Was not Singer. Barthelemy
Thimonnier 1830

Italy:

Eye glasses - Salvino D'Armate 1268-1284

Piano - Bartolomeo Cristofori 1720

Bakelite. Developed by Leo Baekeland in 1907 in New York. (USA)

The invention of Bakelite is considered the beginning of the Age of Plastics. Bakelite was the very first plastic material that would maintain its shape after being heated, thereby making it suitable for molding or extrusion.

More from UK : -

Disc Brakes - Frederick William

Tin Can - Peter Durand 1810

Double Lever Corkscrews - H.S. Heeley 1888

Depth Charges - 1915

Electromagnet - William Stugeon 1825

Fax Machine - Alexander Bain 1843

Dew-point Hygometer - John Fredric Daniell 1820

Theory of Holography - Dr. Dennis Gabor 1947

Gas Burning Internal Combustion Engine - Samuel Brown 1824

Jet Engines - Sir Frank Whittle & Dr. Hans von Ohain - 1930

Metal Lathe - Henry Maudslay 1797

Locomotive - Richard Trevithick 1804

Seismometer - James Forbes 1844

Thermos Flask - Sir James Dewar 1892

Vacuum Cleaner - Hubert Cecil Booth 1901

Waterproof Fabric - Charles Macintosh 1823

John Napier
The Scottish mathematician who invented logarithms, the decimal point, and Napier's Bones.

Anaesthetics
James Simpson, an Edinburgh physician, was the first doctor to use anaesthetics to relieve the pain of surgery in the mid 19th Century

Cure for scurvy
The first person to publish the idea that consuming citrus fruits would prevent scurvy, then a plague on board sailing ships, was an Edinburgh man.

Chemical Bonds
Alexander Crum Brown (1838 - 1922) was born in Edinburgh.

Fax Machines
Invented by a blacksmith in Dumfries in the early 19th Century. This was not the same electronic process used today, but was a functional technique. Some years later, Napoleon used a similar process to send messages to his commanders all over France.

Golf
If you go to Edinburgh, be sure to have a dram at the 15th Century Golf Tavern near an ancient but now vanished golf course. And don't forget to visit the Old Course in St Andrews.

The Historical Novel
This literary form was "invented" by Sir Walter Scott, author of "Ivanhoe", "Rob Roy" and many other historical novels. It may be argued that there are earlier examples from Japanese literature, but these were not known about in the west. So in the literary tradition of Europe and America, Scott was an innovator.

Haggis ya bass!

The Cesium Atomic Clock (USA)

Developed in 1956 by Jerrold Zacharias of MIT. Called the Atomichron, this was the first practical atomic clock The cesium atomic clocks used in the Global Positioning System (GPS) are all descendants of the Atomichron. The extreme accuracy, typically to within 1 second every 100,000 years was what made the development of the GPS satellite system possible.
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Global Positioning System (GPS) USA

Conceived by scientists at the Pentagon in 1973 as a foolproof method of satellite navigation. The first GPS satellite went into orbit in 1978. The 24th and final satellite went into operation in 1993, completing the system. It is operated by the U.S. Department of Defense.

No. The sewing machine was patented by Thomas Saint in 1790, but this didn't actually work. The first functional sewing machine came about in 1830 and was built by Frenchman Barthelemy Thimonnier.

has anyone mentioned calculus, invented by Newton? Newtonian physics? definitely a UK thing.

Banking. Invented by the Knights Templer.

What cant Canada participate gee.?

We got Celine Dion So Booyah!

origially posted by Mike Glass: BLue jeans-Levi Strauss. Actually Strauss only created the rivets on the blue jeans. the first denim was created in France. so yea. go France!

Canada: Stutterfly.. so canada wins.

Random Insanity -- Patents are issued based on the unique design of a product, not for inventing each one or any one of the materials that are used to make the product.

Not just the A-Bomb, but the hydrogen bomb goes to the U.S as well. I believe we own the rights to teh first worm released on teh internet. A poor math professor at an ivy league school here in the U.S. did it by accident while trying to solve a square root.

Mel, question, a lot of things people have posted I am realizing that they aren't inventions. Inventions man making something new. But alot of things are discoveries. Like the whole idea of Newton and gravity, and much of physics and medecine. (Like penecillen) People didn't really invent these things, they just discovered preexisting things. Are we including discoveries in this or no?

Another thing. If anyone has claim to discovery of what herbs do it has to be the chinese. Read the Yellow Empreors guide to Herbs, or whatever your translation calls it. Yeah it was published several hundred years B.C. Not to mention all the books about plants they published after that. Like the things about anistetics (or however you spell it). The chinese were using things to dull pain way before anistetics came about. They could use acupuncture and plants for that. Many of the so called "new" ideas for plants are not new at all. They have been recorded several thousands of years ago by the chinese.

America Sucks.

England rocks.

It's settled.

There is no other answer.

We're idiots.

Closing Blue Eyes, thanks for adding absoluetly no intelligence to this topic whatsoever. If you don't know anything that was invented that hasn't already been posted, go look it up on google, which by the way is another american thing.

I'm american.
I'm stupid.
Whoever said I came to add intelligence?
I doubt there is a single "intellegent" cell or bone in my body.

And you can shut up now, Mr. Cory.

Thank you and have a nice and pleasant night/day....whichever.

GB's Charles Babbidge gets credit for teh computer, with his Analytical engine and differential engine, despite teh fact that he didn't ever make a working computer.

I dont care what you are. If you have nothing to add to the topic then dont post just read.

ew! Why read when I can post and irritate people like you?!

You're just an irritable dude...

You should take a chillpill and relax!

If it's your type of thing, smoke some bong. Live the american dream! Live a little! Just lighten up!

WE get credit for napster. U.S. which spawned most other file sharing programs

Uhhhhhhhhhhh..............

I think you're talking to yourself again....

No one else but you and I are commenting on this thread....

for now at least...

Nope. :-D..

just me! lol

I just went over to England the other day (I live on an American Air Force Base in Germany) and we were on another American base in England, and some random English person comes up to us and asks us if we have an effing problem. We were just looking at her shoes.

But anyways, I like english accents, they make me smile :-)

Canada :
Avril Lavigne,Sum 41,Simple Plan,Billy talent,Hedley,Nelly furtado,fefe dobson..

Shall I go on?

GEE WE SO RULE, Were a free country no duh.

Here's one: America, discovered by the English! Back of the net!!!

LOL!! ^^^^

First Microprosessor - Intel, 1971. USA