Can anyone list 5 inventions to come from the U.S. we have been trying and only come up with 1,Obiesity?

Answer 1

You always claim to have inviented the Steam Engine although the first one was used in coal mines in Wales UK to drain water whilst America was still crapping in its hands and wiping it on its face.

Check out edison he was a Yankeed Doodle Dandee wasn't he?

Light Bulb perhaps.

You gys took the dorr of a fridge and put a fan inside to make air conditioning thats kinda clever not sure if its an invention though.

Native Americans probably invented a few things too but hey thats history now.

I could go on taunting you but I feel I am casting my seeds on stoney ground.

Answer 2

My dear, dear colonial friends.............
the first computer program was written by Charles Babbage in Manchester, England. The world's first programmable computer was invented by Konrad Zuse in Germany in 1941.
The television was invented by John logie Baird, a scotsman,
The internet (www) was invented by Tim Berners-lee, an Englishman.
The car was invented by Karl Benz, a German.
No-one 'invented' electricity!
The rifle was invented in the 15th Century.
Funny stories abound about inventions, for example the hypodermic needle (Dr Alexander Wood, 1858, a scotsman). the americans thought they had developed the idea so well they had made the worlds smallest hypodermic needle with the thinnest aperture, they sent this, cockily to England to brag that they were the best etc...
A few weeks later the Americans recieved their needle back with no message etc and when the asked the English why they had done this the English said 'look inside the aperture' where there was-you guessed it - the world smallest, finest hypodermic needle.
The best though is the stroy about NASA's development of a writing implement that the astronauts could use in space, they spent millions developing a pen that would work in zero gravity, upside down etc and were successful -developing the space pen! when they asked the Russians wether they had this amazing technology, they were told yes, of course, we call it a pencil!
I have nothing against the Americans but please, please stop being so blinkered and read a little bit more.

Answer 3

Internet
Credit Card
Breeder Reactor
Hydrogen Bomb
Transistor Radio
Solar Cell
Robot
Video Tape, Video Recorder
Microchip
Computer Modem
Computer Mouse
E-Mail
Floppy Disk
Optical Disk
Hypertext
Portable Calculator
Laser
Heart Pacemaker
Weather Satellite
Communication Satellite
Venus Probe
LEDs
Microprocessor
Genetic Engineering
Barcode
Space Station
Space Shuttle
Space Telescope
Molecular Transistor
Metal Rubber
Laser Printer

there are loads

Answer 4

Whoever said printing press: it was first used in China according to evidence, and Johannes Gutenberg invented movable type in the 15th century. Sorry. :-)

*extreme sarcasm mode*

1. There's a little known, very uncommon device the Americans invented, you may have heard of it. It is known as the computer.

2. Another minor invention called the sewing machine.

3. Another useless one - the artificial heart; the first authorized use of an artificial heart as a bridge to organ transplantation.

4. Transistor – John Robinson Pierce.

5. the bicycle.

Answer 5

1) Cotton Gin (Eli Whitney)

2) Telephone (Alexander Graham)

3) Lightning Rod (Ben Franklin)

4) Phonograph (Thomas Edison)

5) Incandescent Light Bulb (Thomas Edison)

Plus all of these:

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

And obesity is not an invention, but a disease or at least a physical condition. It existed long before the U.S. was around.

Answer 6

It's not a serious question really but...

to the above answerers…re ‘US’ inventions listed:

Light Bulb...: Joseph Swan (British) “received a British patent for his device in 1878, about a year before Thomas Edison”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Wilson_Swan

The computer…wrong: The Englishman Charles Babbage invented the idea of a programmable computer… http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Difference_engine

But the first computers, in the modern sense of the word, were built during WW2 by both the GERMANS http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z3 & the ENGLISH http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossus_computer

I don’t intend to go on - because I’m sure that the Americans invented quite a few things…but not as many as they always think..


No one person ever really invents anything but builds on previous ideas & discoveries.

Answer 7

They invented thousands of thing to numerous to mention

The telephone was by Philipp Reis(German), Alexander Graham Bell (Scottish), Bourseul (French) and Elisha Gray (American. They all contiributed to to what we call a telephone.

Germans invented the car about a decade before America started making them. The first mass-production model yes, invention no.

Many people (especially Scottish people) will tell you John Logie Baird invented TV. He did invent a system of transmitting pictures but they technology was frail, unwieldy and dangerous (think large wooden wheel spinning very fast with heavy glass lenses attatched. Modern electronic TV was invented at almost the same time by an American called (I believe) Farnsworth.

Answer 8

The Zipper
The Bedazzler
The Clapper
Chia Pet
Instant Coffee

Answer 9

Greetings from Savannah Ga USA The Light Bulb, Banjo, radial tires, socket wrenches, and the paint gun.

Answer 10

What about the things the U.S people put up with
like ignorant foreigners that come here blow up our buildings, kill our people, live off our tax dollars, get free health care, and talk about how great their country is but yet their sorry ignorant @sses are here talking $hit about the use U.S.

Answer 11

here`s a load of them in the below link... .

starting with... .

1752 Lightning Rod Benjamin Franklin's electricity experiments lead him to a valuable application -- the lightning rod, which when placed at the apex of a barn, church steeple, or other structure, conducts lightning bolts harmlessly into the ground.

1794 Cotton Gin Eli Whitney patents his machine to comb and deseed bolls of cotton. His invention makes possible a revolution in the cotton industry and the rise of "King Cotton" as the main cash crop in the South, but will never make him rich. Instead of buying his machine, farmers built bogus versions of their own.

1801 Steam-Powered Pumping Station The Fairmount Water Works harnesses steam power to provide water for the city of Philadelphia.

1803 Spray Gun Dr. Alan de Vilbiss of Toledo, Ohio, invented this device to replace swabs as the method of applying medication to oral and nasal passages.

1805 Amphibious Vehicle Oliver Evans' "Orukter Amphibolos" dredges the waters near the Philadelphia docks. Its steam-powered engine drove either wooden wheels or a paddle wheel. Evans demonstrated his machine in Philadelphia's Center Square, where he passed the hat for money.

1806 Coffee Pot Coffee drinkers the world over no longer have to chew their brew. Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford, invents a coffee pot with a metal sieve to strain away the grounds.