I was wondering what HAVE Americans invented?

Question

What I mean by inventions does not include "Rock & Roll". lol. I mean for example the Germans came up with the right formula that makes the medicine "Asprin". Correct me if I'm wrong.

Thanks for all of you who replied seriously. Joey, I didn't ask any sort of question about my spelling. I'm glad everyone else could understand my questions & comments.

Answer 1

Here is a list that is way too long to post here!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_inventions
It includes the submarine,
lightning rod
cotton gin
spray gun
coffee pot
steam boat
iron plow
reaping and threshing machines
sewing machine
vulcanized rubber
telegraph
burglar alarm
oil well
repeating rifle
barbed wire
typewriter
mimeograph
telephone
phonograph
incandescent light bulb
dishwasher
escalator
gasoline powered car
safety razor
zipper
airplane
assembly line
hydrofoil
television
frozen food
defibrillator
chair lift
nylon
digital computer
atomic bomb
polaroid camera
electric guitar
polio vaccine
optical fiber
bar code
space shuttle
artificial heart
laser
hearing aid
electric fan

... and there are many more. I wonder if the folks with negative answers about the USA make use of any of these American inventions? Especially if there are "none that they would be interested in."

Answer 2

Yes, they invented the potty and the bathtub. They may even have invented the bidet, though some say that was the French. Also, they invented toilet paper and things like rice pudding, and custard. They invented the Bible and many of the other known books, such as 'Catcher in the Rye'. Also, they invented Rye. Americans invented the modern cow, and the Railway Platform. Also, circumcision and the 'one-at-a-time' method of extracting teeth. Other American inventions include: The Dollar The clock The sausage The rifle The vote cigarettes false teeth horseshoes tattoos Sink plugs Butt-plugs underwear string chocolate Chips Cookies Chocolate Chip Cookies Putting the trash out Cat flaps Hat-stands Handstands Cartwheels Bunny hops Knees up Mother Brown (that may have been the British) ummm. All sorts. Oh yes - razor blades. and shaving. and shaving down there. ( I think some other countries maybe invented that too, or maybe they just don't have that situation). There are many other things, which I shall make up shortly.

Answer 3

What Have Americans Invented

Answer 4

Telegraph I'm not to sure you didn't invent steam boats nor did you invent a screw driven boat. Machine gun is arguable considering if British people can turn American surely it can work the other way round. The first refrigeration system was built In Britain not the US. Rubber the type that goes on tires was made by a British inventor. We all know how america got to the moon cough NAZI German scientist.

Answer 5

well henry ford created the assembly line for cars.....the light bulb....
and tons of things by Albert Einstein .....
Dr. Jack G. Copeland implanted this Jarvik-7 heart in Michael Drummond on August 29, 1985. Drummond lived with the Jarvik-7 for a week before an organ transplant. It was the first authorized use of an artificial heart as a bridge to organ transplantation.
Dr. Robert K. Jarvik had developed the heart during the late 1970s, working with many other researchers. It consists of two ventricles (the heart's lower chambers) with air chambers and six titanium valves. It attaches to the patient's natural auricles (the heart's upper chambers).
and lots more...look it up on google.com

Answer 6

I'm glad you included the last part "correct me if I'm wrong": It's "I was wondering, what have THE Amercians invented?"

I think it would take a team of English teachers to correct the next sentence. It's spelled Aspirin.

We have not invented much- besides the automobile, the telephone, the television, the steam engine which industrialized the free world. Oh, and ibuprofen, which is better than Aspirin.

Germany did invent, however, some drop dead gorgeous women. Oh yea, and the Holocaust.

Answer 7

Americans "invented" a free enterprise economic system supported by a democratic government. No one had such a system before and it became the template for the rest of the world. There is a reason why America is the wealthiest country in the world and why most everyone else has tried to emulate it.

It is the free enterprise system that has lead to so many inventions & techological innovations in this country. If you invent something everyone wants, you can get rich!

Answer 8

Ninety percent of microphones used today are based on the ingenuity of James Edward West, an African-American inventor born in 1931 in Prince Edwards County, VA. If you’ve ever talked on the telephone, you’ve probably used his invention.
Dr. James E. West and a colleague, Gerhard Sessler, developed the mic (officially known as the Electroacoustic Transducer Electret Microphone) while with Bell Laboratories, and they received a patent for it in 1962. The acoustical technologies employed became widely used for many reasons including high performance, acoustical accuracy and reliability. It is also small, lightweight and cost effective.

Answer 9

American applications for patents account for more than any other country in the world. So we are the inventing gurus. How about Alexander Bell, he invented the telephone. Thomas Edison the Light bulb. Computers, nuclear fission, etc etc. Not hard to find them. Also, Americans have won 6 Nobel prizes this year alone for Chemistry, Medicine, Physics, etc.

Answer 10

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but, so I don't get reported for not being an answer..here is a comment> Hippocrates was left historical records of pain relief treatments, including the use of powder made from the bark and leaves of the willow tree to help heal headaches, pains and fevers.

By 1829, scientists discovered that it was the compound called salicin in willow plants which gave you the pain relief.

The active ingredient in willow bark was isolated; in 1828, Johann Buchner, professor of pharmacy at the University of Munich, isolated a tiny amount of bitter tasting yellow, needle-like crystals, which he called salicin. Two Italians, Brugnatelli and Fontana, had in fact already obtained salicin in 1826, but in a highly impure form. By 1829, [French chemist] Henri Leroux had improved the extraction procedure to obtain about 30g from 1.5kg of bark. In 1838, Raffaele Piria [an Italian chemist] then working at the Sorbonne in Paris, split salicin into a sugar and an aromatic component (salicylaldehyde) and converted the latter, by hydrolysis and oxidation, to an acid of crystallised colourless needles, which he named salicylic acid."

Henri Leroux had extracted salicin, in crystalline form for the first time, and Raffaele Piria succeeded in obtaining the salicylic acid in its pure state.

The problem was that salicylic acid was tough on stomachs and a means of 'buffering' the compound was searched for. The first person to do so was a French chemist named Charles Frederic Gerhardt. In 1853, Gerhardt neutralized salicylic acid by buffering it with sodium (sodium salicylate) and acetyl chloride, creating acetylsalicylic acid. Gerhardt's product worked but he had no desire to market it and abandoned his discovery.

Felix HoffmanIn 1899, a German chemist named Felix Hoffmann, who worked for a German company called Bayer, rediscovered Gerhardt's formula. Felix Hoffmann made some of the formula and gave it to his father who was suffering from the pain of arthritis. With good results, Felix Hoffmann then convinced Bayer to market the new wonder drug. Aspirin was patented on March 6, 1889.
So, it is perhaps the most international invention of all time..