Hungarian inventions include the noiseless match (János Irinyi), Rubik’s cube (Ernő Rubik), and the krypton electric bulb (Imre Bródy). A number of other important inventions, including holography (Dennis Gabor), the ballpoint pen (László Bíró), the theory of the hydrogen bomb (Edward Teller), and the BASIC programming language (John Kemeny, with Thomas E. Kurtz) were invented by Hungarians who fled the country prior to World War II.
What are (some) of the inventions in your city (country)?
És a kedvencem Szentgyörgyi Albert a C-Vitaminnal kimaradt Zannnie felsorolásából.:)
Canadians have invented basketball (James Naismith from Montreal), anti-gravity suit (U of T’s Wilbur Franks), goalie mask (Jacques Plante), Trivial Pursuit game and Insulin (by Frederick Banting and Charles Best) to name a few.
hmmm im not sure about inventions here in manila. hehe anyway i dont live near palawan its far from here it can be reach thru plane in a about an hour. or by boat but that takes a lot of time around 12 hours or more.
A Scot has the dubious honour of having invented the TV (John Logie Baird) not sure if I’m proud of him though…..
I’m not sure about inventions but the Northern California foothills, where I live, became the start of the Goldrush in the 1840″s. New ways of mining were created and a whole new way of life evolved.
Australians apparently invented: the stump jump plough, the black-box flight recorder used in aircraft, the combine harvester (which both stripped and harvested grain), latex gloves, the electric drill, the notepad (gluing pages together!), Shepherd’s casters (wheel things on the bottom of furniture), polymer bank notes, the first meachanical refrigeration plant, the wine cask, the instant boiling water heater, the heart pacemaker, the cochlear implant (bionic ear), aspirin in tablet form), spray-on skin for burns, the multifocal eyeglass lens without joins, microsurgery instruments, the world’s first anti-flu drug – relenza, cervical cancer vaccine, the ‘Alexander’ technique, automatic betting machine (the ‘Tote’), the teleprinter (in Sydney), the inflatable aircraft escape slide, automatic letter-sorting machine, the two-stroke lawn mower, lithium as a treatment for manic depression, the surf life-saving reel, anthrax vaccine, pedal wireless, Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometer, solar water heater, permanent crease trousers, plastic spectacle lenses, ultrasound machine, Wiltshire staysharp knife, orbital internal combustion engine, pop top can that folds in on itself, super sopper (soaks up water from sports grounds), race cam used in car racing etc, lightweight wool, the winged keel, gene shears, wave piercing catamaran, biological pesticides, reading machine for the blind, plastic rod bone repairer, biodegradable marine de-greaser, multifocal contact lens, underwater computer.
And not to forget the boomerang.
Not bad for a relatively new and small country.