Who invented what ?

Here are a few Slovak inventions :

- The camera zoom lens, invented by Jozef Maximilian Petzval in the mid 19th century.
- The wireless telegraph, invented by Jozef Murgas in 1909
- The (military) parachute, invented by Stefan Banic in 1913
 
Actually the Chinese contrived things like paper, the premier printing (block and removable), the stirrup on a horse's saddle, the directional compass, gunpowder, lasting and primal moulds of incessant flamethrowers, cannons, and landmines.

How was silk initially innovated to the Roman Empire? During the premature Middle Ages the Byzantines affirmed a monopoly on silk production because it was the Arabs who introduced the Chinese covert of mulberry worms transuding the valuable content to meander into silk, conglomerating immense fortunes for the Byzantine Emperors. The Emperors concealed the silk looms in their castle at Constantinople. During this time they were trading silks to European royal families and aiding to finance their soldierly endeavours against the enlargement of primal Mohammedanism and the upkeep of the centenarian Roman regulation. The economical success of the subsequent middle ages silk manufacturers E.G. ?gCordoba?h (Spain) or the silk loom manufacturers in North part of Italy would fair in merchandising had it not been for the Chinese.

In the Chinese era known as Jin, the innovation of the stirrup iron on a saddleback journeyed to Europe in the time of Charlemagne. Overturning European war in conditions of saddled horse evermore.

When the innovation of paper during Cai Lun's Han-era was transferred
by Abbasid Arabs to Europe. Earlier on the Europeans banked on the pricy and scarce Papyrus plant available only in Egypt to indite on, differently they merely indite on slips of sheepskin to commemorate events and people. When inexpensive, effective, and mint fabricated paper came through suddenly Europe was lifted out of the dark ages with the coming of the circulation of additional noesis.

The Chinese contrived the ruder and the south-pointing compass in the Han Dynasty, and created furtherance to them since then onwards. The primal certify of a rudder being utilized in Europe was dated to 1180 in a church engraving. Merely a couple years later the Europeans "noticed" the compass from journeys to the east. This is more than a thousand years subsequently the Chinese devised the compass and rudder, and not startlingly they would both be detected in Europe at approximately the corresponding period, conceiving that it is a compass that points in the guidance required, and the rudder utilised to channelize in that direction, thence the two would go hand in hand.

The Chinese under the 9th century AD Tang Dynasty impart, a method of intensify their ancient recipe for "black powder," exploring of an elixir for eternal life (It is believed that the first Emperor of Qin dynasty passed away from intoxication of mercury due to the reason that he trusted mercury to be the elixir. What the Chinese invented was a great deal of detonating equation including sulphur, charcoal, and saltpetre. The Chinese discovered to cut down the potassium nitrate in the equation, and they discovered the ancient Chinese manuscript known as ?gEssentials of the Marvellous Way of Perfect Primordial?h, described in the mid 800s which is 9th century AD.
People were arse around and jesting with it, until the Chinese agnized to utilize this for warfare purposes.

The premier advert of a cannon or gun subsist in Europe is during the primordial 14th century which is the 1300s in a nobleman's armoury of munitions and additional papers discovered in Europe. Earlier on, the Englishman Franciscan Friar Roger Bacon (1214-1294) journeyed towards East and disclosed to his European coevals the Arabian noesis of black powder.

The Arabs in this era were considerably cognizant of the Chinese and their inventions, and in one of history's tiny wheezes (and like middlemen before them), hold a classified from the Europeans, labelling the Chinese saltpetre "Chinese Snow." Furthermore, when the Mongols had just seized the Jin of north part of China, and were assailing East part of Europe. Roger Bacon was in Kievan Rus Russia and in a holograph described by him in 1248; he accounts for the premier time in European History the noting of a cannon and its blaring, ear-splitting noise and desolating consequence. The Mongols utilised many of Chinese technologists on their westbound crusades, including technologists on how to construct Chinese grip arbalests, double-acting- Bellows flamethrowers, and cannons.

In the time where the Tang Dynasty tumbled, the Chinese had conceptualized the double-acting-bellows flamethrower. During the 10th century (900s) the Chinese had gestated uses for their newfound recipe of explosive black powder, making combusted fire arrows and detonating bombs hurtled from trebuchets. They continued on their inventions. After they pioneered little handheld bombs illumed by a liquefy, noxious and toxicant
Improvers to the gunpowder recipe, including mercury and arsenic, fundamentally starting the premier mould of chemical warfare. In 1044 AD, a book named ?gCollection of the Most Important Military Techniques?h acknowledged the cannon for the premier time in human history.

By 1259 the primal cite of projectile arms with bamboo or copper pipes were utilized to impel pebbles, small rocks, and little metallic shrapnel at the foe in South of Song, and the most antediluvian cannon in China dates back to 1298.The antique bronze version of the cannon dates back to 1332.

The Chinese innovated the primal mud strafed furnaces in approximately the year 500 BC, in the ancient Zhou Dynasty state of Wu; it could arrive at well over 1000 degrees Celsius in temperature interior. Once the interior of the furnace arrived at roughly 1130 Celsius, iron would thawed and commingle with 4.3% carbon, once the metal is liquefiable, they could be forged and shaped into all forms wanted. E.G. Iron swords or equipage bolt.

In the Han Dynasty (202 BC - 220 AD), steel contriving sprung up, with the coming of trimming down the amount of carbon by 2 divergent methods, the 100 measure ameliorating method and working unthawed pool of calorific and
runny iron to aerate the admixture and decarburize it, primary creating steel.
Mud strafe furnaces wouldn't be noticed until the 19th century Industrial Era that the West could rival the production of steel in the Chinese Song Dynasty.

In the Song Dynasty (960-1277 AD), there was an intermediate of 100,000 tons of steel produced in 1 year or decennary to man standing armies of over a million warriors and render millions of citified denizens countrywide with steel merchandises basal to quotidian life. In the meantime the European domain was a gloomy and dreary medieval place; too occupy burning witches and cursing hoi polloi from the church for one sappy matter to some other or to agnise the comprehensiveness and walloping enlargement of the Chinese creation to the east, which by this level already had ocean-going merchandize meshwork with East Asia, India, Persia, Arabia, and East Africa.

While Europe was tardily and fastidiously replicating every church philosophy by hand, a mean number of bible exchanged to the affluent or royal family monetary value was nearly a fortune in cost because of this, there was a bookshop and library situated in every sizable Chinese urban centre even by the end of Tang era. This was due to the fact the Chinese innovated printing. In the beginning, it was only the crude woodblock printing, conceptualize within the Tang Dynasty, where every single blockade of wood had engraved written material, and would thence typify 1 page.

The following and more astonishing sort, this is earlier than Johannes Gutenberg's metal type printer in Germany. A Chinese man in the Song Dynasty era called Bi Sheng innovated removable type print. This was primarily a singular metal element tray that could be hot up and chill down when desired to withdrawal and wedge the Chinese writings to the frontal part of the metal cover, the writings themselves created out of wood or mud, and there were evidently thousands of them regarding the Chinese linguistic communication and composition.
 
Dream Time said:
there is this myth saying that the Chinese invented ice cream and spaghetti, and Marco Polo brought the ideas to Europe in the 13th century

I don't think the invention of ice-cream is from China.

I don't think in Chinese deserts there is anything like ice-cream. Most of Chinese deserts are made from red beans, mung beans, sesame seeds, rice flours, glutinous rice, wheat flour, oil, eggs and sugar. Milk is hardly used in our cuisine. Some Cantonese restaurants today sell deep-fried ice-cream but I believe they either invented that dish after ice-cream is introduced by the West to Chinese or they adopted it from somewhere else. After all when Hong Kong was under the British rule they had all sorts of foreigners going there in comparison to say the mainland or Taiwan.

With spaghetti, spaghetti is basically noodle and noodle comes from China.
?c50cm-long, yellow strands were found in a pot that had probably been buried during a catastrophic flood.Radiocarbon dating of the material taken from the Lajia archaeological site on the Yellow River indicates the food was about 4,000 years old. Scientists tell the journal Nature that the noodles were made using grains from millet grass - unlike modern noodles, which are made with wheat flour..

The materials that are used to make the Chinese noodle are not the same kind as the ones they have used to make spaghetti or pasta. The Chinese noodle is usually made from wheat flour, rice flour or bean flour with salt and water and sometimes it?fs added with eggs. The Italian pasta is made from Semolina, durum wheat (much harder and takes longer time to cook) and water or some are added with milled potatoes. The sauces to go with the Italian noodle (pasta) and the Chinese noodles are not the same. Hence dishes like spaghetti Bolognese or Chicken fettuccini (sp?) are definitely Italian inventions.
 
Strange, since the unification of Italy my country hasn't invented much... even the Marconi's Radio was made in Britain...
 
The toilet seat was invented in England (but with Scottish help)

The HOLE in the toilet seat was invented by us Welsh!
 
Some Spanish inventions :

- Mop

- Barocyclometer

- Nephoscope

- microseismograph.

- Cryolathe

- Gyroplane

- Capstan

- Laryngoscope

- Air-independent propulsion
 
1897: first Army-commissioned submarine by John Philip Holland


OK not the first submarine but the first Army comissioned sub was designed by an Irish man - now theres something I never knew.:petrified:
 
Inventions of Spain.

-Stapler.
-sharpening pencils.
-Mop.
-Guitar.
-Talgo train.
-Autogiro.
-The lavender water.
-El mus.
-The Pearl was a prototype electric-powered submarine made by the Spanish Navy as draft Isaac Peral.
-Arcabuz. (firearm)
-The Chess Player El Ajedrecista was an automaton built in 1912 by Leonardo Torres Quevedo.
-Futbolín.
-Galleon.
-Laryngoscope.
-Telekino.
-Digital Calculator.
-The Semi Rigid Airship
-Cable car
-Chupa-chups.
-Spanish dragonfly.
-capstan.
-disposable hypodermic syringe.
-Air Independent Propulsion
-Molotov Cocktail.
-Destroyer (ship contratorpedero)
-Garrote vil.
-Sugus candy.
-Cigarrette.

-Barociclómetro is like a barometer
conventional, but has the ability to acknowledge with
more precisely the proximity of typhoons or hurricanes,
which also measures its intensity.


-Nefoscopio. is useful to note and identify
apparent speed and direction of movement
clouds. This makes calculating the time
takes to cross between different lattices of a telescope.

-Microsismógrafo is
essentially a conventional seismograph but
high sensitivity, which can record.

-PORTABLE SOLAR FREEZER Although the name of this invention looks like a
contradiction, it is not at all: rather, take
solar energy, through a conversion
PV, produce cold is a great innovation
applied to a portable system. This invention, Fernando
Correa, facilitate health and vaccination campaigns

-Inhibitor of cell phones.

-THE SPACE SUIT ASTRONAUT A new pioneer maligned and forgotten by history. Emilio Herrera Linares designed the first space suit in history, but like so many other pioneers of our country, has only been recognized outside our front. Scientific and aviator (he was a senior Republican Army during the Civil War), worked with Juan de la Cierva and Leonardo Torres Quevedo in his research. His spacesuit was used as preliminary design of modern astronaut suits, but their membership of the losing side of the Spanish Civil War and his presidency of the Government of the Spanish Republic in exile, caused his ostracism and persecution in Spain during Franco. He died in Geneva in 1967.



 
Inventions from Australia taken from Wikipedia

1838 - Pre-paid postage - Colonial Postmaster-General of New South Wales, James Raymond introduced the world's first pre-paid postal system, using pre-stamped sheets as envelopes.
1843 - Grain stripper - John Ridley and John Bull of South Australia developed the world's first grain stripper that cut the crop then removed and placed the grain into bins.
1856 - Refrigerator - Using the principal of vapour compression, James Harrison produced the world's first practical ice making machine and refrigerator.
1874 - Underwater torpedo - Invented by Louis Brennan, the torpedo had two propellers, rotated by wires which were attached to winding engines on the shore station. By varying the speed at which the two wires were extracted, the torpedo could be steered to the left or right by an operator on the shore.
1876 - Stump jump plough - Richard and Clarence Bowyer Smith developed a plough which could jump over stumps and stones, enabling newly-cleared land to be cultivated.
1877 - Mechanical clippers - Various mechanical shearing patents were registered in Australia before Frederick York Wolseley finally succeeded in developing a practical hand piece with a comb and reciprocating cutter driven by power transmitted from a stationary engine.
1889 - Electric drill - Arthur James Arnot patented the world's first electric drill on 20 August 1889 while working for the Union Electric Company in Melbourne. He designed it primarily to drill rock and to dig coal.
1892 - Coolgardie safe - Arthur Patrick McCormick noticed that a wet bag placed over a bottle cooled its contents, and the cooling was more pronounced in a breeze. The Coolgardie safe was a box made of wire and hessian sitting in water, which was placed on a verandah so that any breeze would evaporate the water in the hessian and via the principle of evaporation, cool the air inside the box. The Coolgardie safe was used into the middle of the 20th century as a means of preserving food.
Hargrave and Swain demonstrate the manlift kites
1894 - Powered flight
- Lawrence Hargrave discovered that curved surfaces lift more than flat ones. He subsequently built the world's first box kites, hitched four together, added an engine and flew five metres. Hargrave corresponded freely with other aviation pioneers, including the Wright Brothers. Unlike the Americans who commercialised their ideas, Hargrave never patented his. Because it promised public access, Hargrave left all his research and prototypes to the Munich Museum.
1902 - Notepad - For 500 years, paper had been supplied in loose sheets. Launceston stationer J.A. Birchall decided that it would be a good idea to cut the sheets into half, back them with cardboard and glue them together at the top.
1903 - Froth flotation - The process of separating minerals from rock by flotation was developed by Charles Potter and Guillaume Delprat in New South Wales. Both worked independently at the same time on different parts of the process for the mining company Broken Hill Pty. Ltd. (BHP) [16][17]
1906 - Feature film - The world's first feature length film, The Story of the Kelly Gang, was a little over an hour long.[18]
1906 - Surf life-saving reel - The first surf life-saving reel in the world was demonstrated at Bondi Beach on 23 December 1906 by its designer, Bondi surfer Lester Ormsby.
1907 - Thrust bearing - Fluid-film thrust bearings were invented by Australian engineer George Michell. Michell bearings contain a number of sector-shaped pads, arranged in a circle around the shaft, and which are free to pivot. These create wedge-shaped regions of oil inside the bearing between the pads and a rotating disk, which support the applied thrust and eliminate metal-on-metal contact. The small size (one-tenth the size of old bearing designs), low friction and long life of Michell's invention made possible the development of larger propellers and engines in ships. They were used extensively in ships built during World War I, and have become the standard bearing used on turbine shafts in ships and power plants worldwide.
1910 - Humespun pipe-making process - The Humespun process was developed by Walter Hume of Humes Ltd for making concrete pipes of high strength and low permeability. The process used centrifugal force to evenly distribute concrete onto wire reinforcing, revolutionising pipe manufacture.
1910 - Dethridge wheel - The wheel used to measure the water flow in an irrigation channel, consisting of a drum on an axle, with eight v-shaped vanes fixed to its outside, was invented by John Dethridge, Commissioner of the Victorian State Rivers and Water Supply Commission.
1912 - Surf ski - Harry McLaren and his brother Jack used an early version of the surf ski for use around the family's oyster beds on Lake Innes, near Port Macquarie, New South Wales, and the brothers used them in the surf on Port Macquarie's beaches. The board was propelled in a sitting position with two small hand blades, which was probably not a highly efficient method to negotiate the surf. The deck is flat with a bung plug at the rear and a nose ring with a leash, possibly originally required for mooring. The rails are square and there is pronounced rocker. The boards' obvious buoyancy indicates hollow construction, with thin boards of cedar fixed longtitudinally down the board.
1912 - Tank - A South Australian named Lance de Mole submitted a proposal to the British War Office, for a 'chain-rail vehicle which could be easily steered and carry heavy loads over rough ground and trenches' complete with extensive drawings. The British war office rejected the idea at the time, but De Mole made several more proposals to the British War Office in 1914 and 1916, and formally requested he be recognised as the inventor of the Mark I tank. The British Royal Commission on Awards to Inventors eventually made a payment of £987 to De Mole to cover his expenses; promoting him to an honorary corporal.
1912 - Self-Propelled Rotary Hoe - At the age of 16 Cliff Howard of Gilgandra invented a machine with rotating hoe blades on an axle that simultaneously hoed the ground and pulled the machine forward.
1913 - Automatic totalisator -The world's first automatic totalisator for calculating horse-racing bets was made by Sir George Julius.
1928 - Electronic Pacemaker - The heart pacemaker had a portable apparatus which 'plugged into a lighting point. One pole was applied to a skin pad soaked in strong salt solution' while the other pole 'consisted of a needle insulated except at its point, and was plunged into the appropriate cardiac chamber'. 'The pacemaker rate was variable from about 80 to 120 pulses per minute, and likewise the voltage variable from 1.5 to 120 volts.' The apparatus was used to revive a potentially stillborn infant at Crown Street Women's Hospital, Sydney whose heart continued 'to beat on its own accord', 'at the end of 10 minutes' of stimulation.
1930 - Clapperboard - The wooden marker used to synchronise sound and film was invented by Frank Thring Sr of Efftee Stdios in Melbourne.
1934 - Coupé utility - The car body style, known colloquially as the ute in Australia and New Zealand, combines a two-door "coupé" cabin with an integral cargo bed behind the cabin—using a light-duty passenger vehicle-derived platform. It was designed by Lewis Brandt at the Ford Motor Company in Geelong, Victoria. The first ute rolled off the Ford production lines in 1934. The idea came from a Geelong farmer's wife who wrote to Ford in 1933 advising the need for a new sort of vehicle to take her 'to church on Sundays and pigs to market on Mondays.
1938 - Polocrosse - Inspired by a training exercise witnessed at the National School of Equitation at Kingston Vale near London, Mr. and Mrs. Edward Hirst of Sydney invented the combination polo and lacrosse sport which was first played at Ingleburn near Sydney in 1939.
1940 - Zinc Cream - This white sun block made from zinc oxide was developed by the Fauldings pharmaceutical company.
1943 - Splayd - The combination knife, fork and spoon was invented by William McArthur after seeing ladies struggle to eat at barbecues with standard cutlery from plates on their laps.
1948 - Rotary Clothes Line - The famous Hills Hoist rotary clothes line with a winding mechanism allowing the frame to be lowered and raised with ease was developed by Lance Hill in 1945, although the clothes line design itself was originally patented by Gilbert Toyne in Adelaide in 1926.
1952 - Lagerphone - The lagerphone is a musical instrument made by nailing beer caps onto a stick. The first recorded witnessing of this instrument was at an amateur's night near Holbrook, New South Wales. During the 50s it was popularised by the Heathcote Bushwackers as an alternative to the American wobbleboard.
1952 - Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometer - The atomic absorption spectrophotometer is a complex analytical instrument incorporating micro-computer electronics and precision optics and mechanics, used in chemical analysis to determine low concentrations of metals in a wide variety of substances. It was first developed by Sir Alan Walsh of the CSIRO.
1953 - Solar hot water - Developed by a team at the CSIRO led by Roger N Morse
1955 - Distance Measuring Equipment (DME) - Invented and developed by Edward George Bowen of the CSIRO, the first DME network, operating in the 200 MHz band, became operational in Australia.
1956 - Pneumatic broadacre air seeder - Invented and patented by Albert Fuss in 1956, the lightweight air seeder uses a spinning distributor, blew the seeds through a pipe into the plating tynes. It was first used that same year to sow wheat near Dalby in Queensland.
1957 - Flame ionisation detector - The flame ionisation detector is one of the most accurate instruments ever developed for the detection of emissions. It was invented by Ian McWilliam. The instrument, which can measure one part in 10 million, has been used in chemical analysis in the petrochemical industry, medical and biochemical research, and in the monitoring of the environment.
1957 - Wool clothing with a permanent crease - The process for producing permanently creased fabric was invented by Dr Arthur Farnworth of the CSIRO.
1958 - Black box flight recorder - The 'black box' voice and instrument data recorder was invented by Dr David Warren in Melbourne.
1960 - Plastic spectacle lenses - The world's first plastic spectacle lenses, 60 per cent lighter than glass lenses, were designed by Scientific Optical Laboratories in Adelaide.
1961 - Ultrasound - David Robinson and George Kossoff's work at the Australian Department of Health, resulted in the first commercially practical water path ultrasonic scanner in 1961.
1965 - Inflatable escape slide - The inflatable aircraft escape slide which doubles as a raft was invented by Jack Grant of Qantas.
1965 - Wine cask - Invented by Thomas Angove of Renmark, South Australia, the wine cask is a cardboard box housing a plastic container which collapses as the wine is drawn off, thus preventing contact with the air. Angroves' original design with a resealable spout was replaced with a tap by the Penfolds wine company in 1972
1970 - Staysharp knife - The self-sharpening knife was developed by Wiltshire.
1971 - Variable rack and pinion steering - The variable ratio rack and pinion steering in motor vehicles allowing smooth steering with minimal feedback was invented by Australian engineer, Arthur Bishop.
1972 - Orbital engine - The orbital internal combustion process engine was invented by engineer Ralph Sarich of Perth, Western Australia. The system uses a single piston to directly inject fuel into 5 orbiting chambers. It has never challenged the dominance of four-stroke combustion engines but has replaced many two-stroke engines with a more efficient, powerful and cleaner system. Orbital engines now appear in boats, motorcycles and small cars.
1972 - Instream analysis - To speed-up analysis of metals during the recovery process, which used to take up to 24 hours, Amdel Limited developed an on-the-spot analysis equipment called the In-Stream Analysis System, for the processing of copper, zinc, lead and platinum - and the washing of coal. This computerised system allowed continuous analysis of key metals and meant greater productivity for the mineral industry worldwide.
1974 - Super Sopper - Gordon Withnall at the age of 56 invented the Super Sopper, a giant rolling sponge used to quickly soak up water from sporting grounds so that play can continue.
1978 - Synroc - The synthetic ceramic Synroc that incorporates radioactive waste into its crystal structure was invented in 1978 by a team led by Dr Ted Ringwood at the Australian National University.
1979 - Digital sampler - The Fairlight CMI (Computer Musical Instrument) was the first polyphonic digital sampling synthesizer. It was designed in 1979 by the founders of Fairlight, Peter Vogel and Kim Ryrie in Sydney, Australia.
1979 - RaceCam - Race Cam was developed by Geoff Healey, an engineer with Australian Television Network Seven in Sydney. The tiny lightweight camera is used in sports broadcasts and provides viewers with spectacular views of events such as motor racing, which are impossible with conventional cameras.
1979 - Bionic ear - The cochlear implant was invented by Professor Graeme Clark of the University of Melbourne.
1980 - Dual flush toilet - Bruce Thompson, working for Caroma in Australia, developed the Duoset cistern, with two buttons, and two flush volumes as a water-saving measure, now responsible for savings in excess of 32000 litres of water per household per year.
1980 - Wave-piercing catamaran - The first high speed, stable catamarans were developed by Phillip Hercus and Robert Clifford of Incat in Tasmania.
1981 - CPAP mask - Professor Colin Sullivan of Sydney University developed the Continuous Positive Airflow Pressure (CPAP) mask. The CPAP system first developed by Sullivan has become the most common treatment for sleep disordered breathing. The invention was commercialised in 1989 by Australian firm ResMed, which is currently one of the world's two largest suppliers of CPAP technology.
1983 - Winged Keel - Ben Lexcen designed a winged keel that helped Australia II end the New York Yacht Club's 132 year ownership of the America's Cup. The keel gave the yacht better steering and manoeuvrability in heavy winds.
1984 - Frozen embryo baby- The world's first frozen embryo baby was born in Melbourne on 28 March 1984
1984 - Baby Safety Capsule - Babies in a car crash used to bounce around like a football. In 1984, for the first time babies had a bassinette with an air bubble in the base and a harness that distributed forces across the bassinette protecting the baby. New South Wales public hospitals now refuse to allow parents take a baby home by car without one.
1986 - Gene shears - The discovery of gene shears was made by CSIRO scientists, Wayne Gerlach and Jim Haseloff. So-called hammerhead ribozymes are bits of genetic material that interrupt a DNA code at a particular point, and can be designed to cut out genes that cause disease or dangerous proteins.
1989 - Polilight forensic lamp - Ron Warrender and Milutin Stoilovic, forensic scientists at the Australian National University in Canberra, developed Unilite which could be set to just the right wavelength to show fingerprints up well against any background. Rofin Australia Pty Ltd, developed this product into the portable Polilight which shows up invisible clues such as fingerprints and writing that has been scribbled over, as well as reworked sections on paintings.
1991 - Buffalo fly trap - In 1991 the CSIRO developed a low-tech translucent plastic tent with a dark inner tunnel lined with brushes. When a cow walks through, the brushed flies fly upwards toward the light and become trapped in the solar-heated plastic dome where they quickly die from desiccation (drying out) and fall to the ground, where ants eat them.
1992 - Multi-focal contact lens - The world's first multi-focal contact lens was invented by optical research scientist, Stephen Newman in Queensland.
1992 - Spray-on skin - Developed by Dr Fiona Wood at Royal Perth Hospital
1993 - Underwater PC - The world's first underwater computer with a five-button hand-held keypad was developed by Bruce Macdonald at the Australian Institute of Marine Science.
1995 - EXELGRAM - The world's most sophisticated optical anti-counterfeiting technology was developed by the CSIRO.
1995 - Jindalee Radar System - Developed by Scientists at the CSIRO, the Jindalee Radar System detects stealthy aircraft and missiles by searching for the turbulence generated by such vehicles.
1996 - Anti-flu Medication - Relenza was developed by a team of scientists at the Victorian College of Pharmacy at Monash University in Melbourne. The team was led by Mark von Itzstein in association with the CSIRO. Relenza was discovered as a part of the Australian biotechnology company Biota's project to develop antiviral agents via rational drug design.
2000 - Wi-Fi - Using the mathematical formulas known as Fourier transforms, John O'Sullivan, Graham Daniels, John Deane, Diethelm Ostry and Terry Percival, working under the CSIRO and another organisation, Radiata, developed the first wireless transfer of data in a local area network.
2002 - Scramjet - On July 30, 2002, the University of Queensland's HyShot team (and international partners) conducted the first ever successful test flight of a scramjet. This test was conducted at the rocket range in outback South Australia called Woomera.
2003 - Blast Glass - A ballistic and blast resistant glass system was invented by Peter Stephinson. Unlike conventional bullet proof glass it incorporates an air cavity to absorb the shock wave of explosions, and was effective in protecting the Australian Embassy in the Jakarta bombings of 2004.
 
Looking at the original list by country, the list for Britian looks really small. I've read a couple of books recently and was absolutely amazed at what was invented / discovered there. I would suggest that as Britian is the country most responsible for the modern world we live in , the list could almost be greater than the rest combined
 
Looking at the original list by country, the list for Britian looks really small. I've read a couple of books recently and was absolutely amazed at what was invented / discovered there. I would suggest that as Britian is the country most responsible for the modern world we live in , the list could almost be greater than the rest combined

Actually I have had to size down the contributions of each country and stick to the most useful and everyday-use inventions (I think that Bud's list of Australian inventions illustrates what I am trying to say). But it is certainly true that proportionally to their national population British people invented more than any other country on Earth.
 
Sorry, but not true. The British are the greatest copy cats in the world, and after them the Americans, the Japanese and the Chinese.

If the British are so great inventors, why can't they build a reliable car?
Name me one other English product on the European market!

Ok, they invented the microwave for radar purposes.
But they had to steal German supplies to get radar turn round and round.

The modern microwave oven is an offspring of that invention, but the British were standing aside.

It makes little sense to invent something, and never profit from marketing it.
 
Sorry, but not true. The British are the greatest copy cats in the world, and after them the Americans, the Japanese and the Chinese.

Are you for real. I'll leave someone else to defend the americans and our friends in Aisa, surely you don't believe that statement about the British. So all the multiple inventions that allowed the Agricultural and Industrial revolutions to happen were copied. So the fact the British have by far more Nobel prize winners per capita than anyone else was because they copied someone else.

Lets look at the humble flushing toilet invented by a Brit, but I guess they may have copied someone. It went like this

1) Some Brit saw some german, french or belgian cave man digging a hole - great idea lets do that
2) The first modern flushing toilet was built by Joesph Bramath in 1778 (although Queen Liz 1 had one but it was a novelty) - but it didn't work that well - sometimes it backfired, and it stunk. It never really caught on
3) In the 1840/50s along came a Brit called Thomas Crapper (yes that was his name :wary2:) who came with up two great little features. The elevated water cistern for flushing, and the U-bend pipe that gave us the water trap at the bottom, and more importantly stopped the smell from coming out

My point is that things develop overtime and its hard to state anyone person invented the whole concept without copying someone else along the way.
 
If the British are so great inventors, why can't they build a reliable car?

Sad but probably true when it comes to mass production. But they do build some great elite cars - for example the Aston Martin. I'm not a F1 follower, but I think a lot of the top racing teams are based in the UK - so they do have some talent

It makes little sense to invent something, and never profit from marketing it.

Yes the Brits have lost there way somewhat when it comes marketing their inventions. It can be strongly agued the first electronic computer was invented in the UK (based on code breaking devises), and the World Wide Web (Tim Berners-Lee who gave it to the world for free). But beyond that the Americans have taken computers to another level and most people think the americans invented it all
 
Actually I have had to size down the contributions of each country and stick to the most useful and everyday-use inventions (I think that Bud's list of Australian inventions illustrates what I am trying to say). But it is certainly true that proportionally to their national population British people invented more than any other country on Earth.

Well, you'd better say the English could and did "nick" more than any other people on Earth. :laughing:
BTW, there is no British people. There are English, Welshmen and Scots.
The Irish aren't even British at all!
 
Penicillin - Sir Alexander Fleming
Television - John Logie Baird
The lucifer friction match - Sir Isaac Holden
The Refridgerator - William Cullen
Radar - Robert Watson-Watt
Steam Engine - James Watt
Bicycle - Kirkpatrick MacMillan

Now admit it Reinaert you wear clogs and like sniffing tulips.
 
People don't credit the islamic countries inventions, as they are basic. But without most of the ground stones that those early inventions act as, would the modern country really invent so much as we had?
 
Back
Top