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Greatest American Inventions

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Other Notable American Inventions

Microprocessor: 1971, Ted Hoff
Bathysphere: 1930, William Beebe and Otis Barton
Tea bags: 1908, Thomas Sullivan
Revolver: 1836, Samuel Colt
Heart-lung machine: 1953, John H. Gibbon
Reaping machine: 1831, Cyrus McCormick
Ferris wheel: 1891, George Washington Gale Ferris Jr
Parking meter: 1935, Carl C. Magee
Sunglasses: 1929, Sam Foster
Hearing aid: 1880, R.G. Rhodes
Burglar alarm: 1858, Edwin T. Holmes
Mimeograph: 1875, Thomas Edison
Sextant: 1731, Thomas Godfrey
Spray gun: 1803, Alan de Vilbiss
Lock-stitch sewing machine: 1833, Walter Hunt
Threshing Machine: 1834, John Avery and Hiram Abial Pitts
Paperclip: 1867, Samuel B. Fay
Barbed wire: 1867, Henry Rose
Vacuum cleaner: 1868, Ives W. McGaffney
Videotape: 1956, Charles Ginsburg and Ray Dolby
Self Starter: 1911, Charles Kettering
Vulcanized rubber: 1844, Charles Goodyear
Band-aid: 1921, Earle Dickson
Frozen food, 1929, Clarence Birdseye
Nylon: 1938, Wallace H. Carothers
Disposable diaper: 1950, Marion Donovan


Added: Jul-2-2012 Occurred On: Jul-2-2012
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  • The "American" nationality didn't exist in 1731. Thomas Godfrey was an Englishman. And the video is rather dubious of several "firsts".

    The nature of DNA was of course first discovered by Francis Crick. The sound barrier was broken an insurmountable number of times during the Second World War. Martin Evans cultivated the first line of stem cells in 1981. The first successful lung transplant was by Joel Cooper. A lot of the will be right, but really can't bothered with this.

    Posted Jul-2-2012 By 
    morganson281 (53.60)  

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  • How about the steam engine...Oh shit, that was us...

    Ok, machine gun?

    Posted Jul-2-2012 By 
    ElegantDecline (2129.68)  

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    • @ElegantDecline

      Cool. Did you guys invent dentistry also?

      Posted Jul-2-2012 By 
      USA1 (3680.24)  

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    • @USA1 Oh, you forgot diet pills? And what about political correctness?

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      ElegantDecline (2129.68)  

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    • @USA1

      You mean, fake teeth? Because dentistry isn't needed where there is nothing to fix:

      http://www.economist.com/node/15060097?subjectid=7933596&story_id=15060097

      Once teeth are all plastic they surely look much better...

      BTW, Pierre Fauchard, a cheese-eating surrender monkey is accredited to be the father of modern dentistry:

      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Fauchard

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      AlainGalvez (25.50)  

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  • Sure, Americans have come up with some good stuff. We've done some good things. We have to focus on sorting out this mess the government got us into though. We need to have the courage that our forefathers had, to risk life and limb to set this ship straight again. How you ask? I have no idea but if you have any suggestions I'm all ears.
    I would love nothing more than to be a proud American........again.

    Posted Jul-2-2012 By 
    RoccoSantoro (506.20)  
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    • @RoccoSantoro: Meh, the entire rotten edifice needs to come down; hopefully people will want to rebuild a constitutional Republic ruled by laws not men. No central bankers, no corporatism, no socialism.
      We are to blame for buying into the culture of entitlements, materialism and progressive social engineering.

      Entertainers, skanks and sodomites are placed on a pedestal and scientists, engineers, philosophers, intellectuals are marginalized and ignored. A sick society for sure.

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      Moore Slayer (2011.54)  

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    • @Moore Slayer
      Iceland has the idea, they staged a successful revolution, toppled their government and jailed some of the Rothschild bankers and purged the rest. You'll never see a news story on it though.

      http://www.sott.net/articles/show/245591-Iceland-s-Amazing-Peaceful-Revolution-Ignored-by-Mainstream-Media

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  • Have a Great 4th of July LL ! ! !

    Posted Jul-2-2012 By 
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  • I own a few patents and am proud to be contributing to our great nation. Inventors, Innovators, and forward thinking Individuals will continue to make our country great for centuries to come.

    Happy Birthday America! May you have many, many more

    Posted Jul-2-2012 By 
    LIONIDAS (76.98)  

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  • Everyone I see with a US Flag avatar gets some thumb lovin' from me! ;-)

    Posted Jul-2-2012 By 
    USA1 (3680.24)  

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  • Nylon gets it's name from the two places it was developed New York and LONdon.

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    chevettey (52.78)

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    • @chevettey Nope.

      "In 1940, John W. Eckelberry of DuPont stated that the letters "nyl" were arbitrary and the "on" was copied from the suffixes of other fibers such as cotton and rayon. A later publication by DuPont explained that the name was originally intended to be "No-Run" ("run" meaning "unravel"), but was modified to avoid making such an unjustified claim and to make the word sound better.[8] An apocryphal explanation is that Nylon is More..

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    • @chevettey

      Must not forget Nystatin. A marvellous treatment for oral thrush.
      Named after the New York State Institute, where it was developed.

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  • Where's GPS? That was a huge contribution to mankind courtesy of the USA. No, please, no need to say thank you.

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    USA1 (3680.24)  

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  • disagree on the microprocessor... it was an italian Federico Faggin (dont start)
    "The world’s first microprocessor (1971) was made possible by the advanced capabilities of the silicon gate technology, the Intel 4004 was a 4-bit CPU (central processing unit) on a single chip. The 4004 was a member of a family of 4 chips designed specifically for Busicom, a Japanese calculator manufacturer. The other members of the family (constituting the MCS-4 family) were: the 4001, a 2k-bit metal-mask More..

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  • Napalm, Agent Orange, and the Big Mac are clearly missing on the list. And what about waterboarding and the atomic bomb?

    Posted Jul-2-2012 By 
    wawa17 (639.74)

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  • Good luck getting the libtards to join in. They fucking hate America... yet won't leave for some reason.

    Posted Jul-2-2012 By 
    NateyG2 (237.70)

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  • And many more to come, folks. Enjoy the ride.

    Posted Jul-2-2012 By 
    Blue3tar (479.80)  

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  • A fine list to be proud of, for sure - problem is, most of this stuff is made in China and imported to North America now so someone else is getting rich from your ingenuity.

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