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Offline loser

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« Reply #30 on: August 20, 2002, 04:22:44 PM »
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I had a bad case of peniccilin once. I'm glad the Candians invented a vaccine for it.

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bastage!     :D
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Offline midnight Target

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American Inventions:
« Reply #31 on: August 20, 2002, 04:23:45 PM »
Light Bulb
Telephone
Morse Code Telegraph
Artificial Heart
Peanut Butter
The desktop computer - Altair
Sewing Machine
Mass Production with interchangable parts - Eli Whitney
AIRPLANE!
phonograph
Film projector


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Re: American Inventions:
« Reply #32 on: August 20, 2002, 04:43:35 PM »
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Telephone


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Will you guys quit it!!

Bell wasn't an American when he invented the phone, he was a Scot.

However I will give you aerosol cheese spray and AH in exchange. ;)
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Offline CyranoAH

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« Reply #33 on: August 20, 2002, 05:03:05 PM »
The Telephone wasn't invented by bell, people, it was an Italian...

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Offline Nashwan

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« Reply #34 on: August 20, 2002, 05:12:32 PM »
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American Inventions:
Light Bulb

Joseph Swann, 20 years before Eddison.
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Offline midnight Target

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Re: Re: American Inventions:
« Reply #35 on: August 20, 2002, 05:22:28 PM »
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Will you guys quit it!!

Bell wasn't an American when he invented the phone, he was a Scot.

However I will give you aerosol cheese spray and AH in exchange. ;)  


Dammit! Bell was just as much an American as Einstein!!!! :mad:
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« Reply #36 on: August 20, 2002, 05:27:20 PM »
On the Maxim Biplane's third test run, on July 31, 1894, with Maxim and a crew of three aboard,
the engines and boilers were coaxed to deliver greater and greater pressure until,
when exceeding 42 mph, the whole structure took to the air.
It lifted with such force that it broke the restraining track and flew about 200 feet
--then crashed and damaged the plane.

here

Ha! see told ya. OK he was born in the US but became a British citizen, we even knighted him.

Anyone know what nationality William S. Henderson was? He filed a patent for a powered aircraft in 1843... thats 60 years before the Wright brothers, I think both these guys beat the Wright brothers for 'inventing' powered fight.

Gatso

BTW to the US for inventing peanut butter.  :)
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« Reply #37 on: August 20, 2002, 05:32:14 PM »
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The 1890s were filled with failed attempts to fly, but Ader and Maxim came
as close as anyone to success. Then the Wright brothers made repeated
successful flights in 1903, but they rode on so much experience with failure.
They were serious, clear-headed men who methodically sorted out all
the things that failure had revealed.


That is from the same site Gatso
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Offline gatso

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« Reply #38 on: August 20, 2002, 05:37:39 PM »
Or even!

In 1804, a British inventor, George Cayley, built the first successful glider. His original craft was a small model. A later full-sized glider carried his coachman, going unwillingly, across a valley. He founded the study of aerodynamics, and was the first to suggest a fixed wing aircraft with a propeller.

Even earlier than Hendersons patent. What constitutes 'inventing' anyway.

MT, OK they were first to do it repeatedly but they were not the first.  :p

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Offline Thrawn

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« Reply #39 on: August 20, 2002, 06:20:58 PM »
Americans invented...diamonds made from people!!  :eek:

http://www.lifegems.com/

Cripes that's creepy.
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« Reply #40 on: August 20, 2002, 07:35:55 PM »
What constitutes 'inventing' anyway

In this case, I would say getting off the ground in one piece. And back on it in one piece.  I can throw a chair out into the street, and it would be flight, of a sort, But, not really the same thing.
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« Reply #41 on: August 20, 2002, 07:38:07 PM »
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What constitutes 'inventing' anyway

In this case, I would say getting off the ground in one piece. And back on it in one piece.  I can throw a chair out into the street, and it would be flight, of a sort, But, not really the same thing.



do it!   lol

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Offline Kieran

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« Reply #42 on: August 20, 2002, 08:10:12 PM »
So if I put up a website that says an American took out a patent for a powered aircraft in the 1700's, could I link to it and say "There!"? ;)

When I look in the Encyclopedia Britannica, it says the Wright Brothers invented the first successful powered aircraft, though it admits there were others that lay claim to that distinction.
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« Reply #43 on: August 20, 2002, 08:38:21 PM »
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BTW whats the most significant thing you bloody useless Yanks have ever come up with? Just wondering. ;)  


A little thing called the Declaration of Independence  :p

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Offline gatso

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« Reply #44 on: August 20, 2002, 09:46:01 PM »
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In this case, I would say getting off the ground in one piece. And back on it in one piece.


Cayley, Maxim and many others beat you to it then.  All had succesful landings, some powered some unpowered. Quick.. rewrite the encyclopedia Britannica  :D

Gatso
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