Great American Inventions

[Eric Potts]

Do you like pizzas ; do you like burgers.

Well..............

5 Reasons Why We Love Burger King's NY Pizza Burger - Slashfood

 

[auschr]

do you like cheese burgers


do you like donuts

 

[skipper734]

It's not a long list.

 

[Guerrero]

Pointy white hats with eye holes?

 

[KNC]

Modesty

 

[8ace]

 

[beorhthelm]

funny, because most food that are considered american arent. yet the fried chicken (come on its lovely), gumbo and jambalaya which are good are overlooked.


greatest American invention would be the transistor.

 

[Norman Potting]

The internet, computers, ......er maybe not.

Drive by shooting, crack cocaine, creationists, blue on blue fire, Sarah Palin....

Thats more like it!

 

[Insel affe]

friendly fire

 

[RexCathedra]

Lend-Lease....

 

[Gully]

OK, so I cheated a little bit and used the internet to find a few, how about these:

Morse Code
Ironing board
Urinal
Zipper
Artificial turf

Think that is enough!

 

[SpidersLegs]

friendly fire

Beat me to it!!

 

[biggles]

barack obhama , not a bad invention,(not really much use either) will never forget his "i am gonna kick some butt rant" at the bp oil spill fiasco

 

[Alex Alex Dawson oo! oo!]

greatest American invention would be the transistor.

Possibly, had it been invented in America.
I seem to remember from the Physics module of my degree that the first transistor (semi-conductor) was patented by a Julius L..........? from somewhere in Eastern Europe in the 1920's.

 

[Harry H]

Dumb,big titted,ready to shag anybody cheerleaders.Wahaaayyyy.

 

[beorhthelm]

Possibly, had it been invented in America.
I seem to remember from the Physics module of my degree that the first transistor (semi-conductor) was patented by a Julius L..........? from somewhere in Eastern Europe in the 1920's.

wikipedia tells us Julius Edgar Lilienfeld filed a patent in Canada in 1925 and German Oskar Heil follwed in 1934. neither produced an actual implementation. we dont see one untill 1947 by William Shockley at Bell Labs, so lets give it to the US. consider the earlier patents owners as "discoverers" if you like.

 

[Alex Alex Dawson oo! oo!]

wikipedia tells us Julius Edgar Lilienfeld filed a patent in Canada in 1925 and German Oskar Heil follwed in 1934. neither produced an actual implementation. we dont see one untill 1947 by William Shockley at Bell Labs, so lets give it to the US. consider the earlier patents owners as "discoverers" if you like.

Bell didn't invent anything novel, they developed and commercialised a semi-conductor device invented by others.

Analogus to Bristol Labs developing penicillin in the 1940's and Beecham (ie GSK) developing a stable salt of the MRSA resistant antibiotic called pseudomonic acid, the invention patent of which is held jointly by my wife and one other.