HeartThais Posted January 21, 2009 Report Share Posted January 21, 2009 Name an American Invention! You can't think of any American inventions? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Central Scrutinizer Posted January 21, 2009 Author Report Share Posted January 21, 2009 If we took the technology there'd be nothing left....name a Thai invention...go on' date=' I dare you! [/quote'] Name an American Invention! Mekong, You must be joking. Just about everything you use for your modern life and for your comfort is an American invention. It's one of America's biggest contributions to the world and history, and continues to be so. America is inventive: American Inventions and Discoveries 1. Sextant 2. Franklin stove 3. Lightning rod 4. Glass harmonica 5. Flatboat 6. Bifocals 7. Ocean current mapping 8. Steam locomotive 9. Cotton gin 10. Wheel cypher 11. Rumford fireplace 12. Self-propelled amphibious vehicle 13. Refrigeration 14. Filtered coffee pot 15. Circular saw 16. Interchangeable parts 17. Dental floss 18. Woodworking lathe 19. Milling machine 20. Reaping machine 21. National parks 22. Lock-stitch sewing machine 23. Threshing machine 24. Wrench 25. Revolver 26. Combine harvester 27. Electric telegraph 28. Ether anesthesia 29. Grain elevator 30. Rotary printing press 31. Vulcanized rubber 32. Safety pin 33. mechanized Street sweeper 34. Potato chip 35. Clothespin 36. Spectrum analysis 37. Hairbrush 38. Condensed milk 39. Elevator passenger safety system 40. Rolled toilet paper 41. Burglar alarm 42. Can opener 43. Modern oil well 44. modern water tower 45. Repeating rifle 46. modern pin tumbler lock 47. Breakfast cereal 48. four-wheeled roller skates 49. Spar torpedo 50. Web rotary printing press 51. Urinal 52. motorcycle 53. paper clip 54. barbed wire 55. Vacuum cleaner 56. Paper bag 57. Clothes hanger 58. Fire hydrant 59. Hand mixer 60. Railway air brake 61. Jeans 62. Fire sprinkler 63. QWERTY 64. Electric dental drill 65. Mimeograph 66. Spray gun 67. Telephone 68. Synthesizer 69. Phonograph 70. District heating 71. Cash register 72. Hearing aid 73. Machine gun 74. Electric chair 75. Electric Christmas lights 76. Electric fan 77. Electric iron 78. Fountain pen 79. Photographic film 80. Gas station fuel dispenser 81. Skyscraper 82. Dr. Pepper 83. Coca Cola 84. Dishwasher machine 85. Diner 86. Slot machine 87. Phonograph disc record 88. Kinetoscope 89. Telautograph 90. Drinking straw 91. Revolving door 92. AC motor 93. Paper towel 94. Smoke detector 95. Escalator 96. Ferris wheel 97. Radio 98. Zipper 99. Tractor 100. Volleyball 101. Cotton candy 102. Comic book 103. Flashlight 104. Disposable safety razor 105. Assembly line production 106. Air conditioning 107. Airplane 108. Teddy bear 109. Tea bag 110. Crayons 111. Windshield wipers 112. Automatic transmission 113. AC power plugs and sockets 114. Monopoly board game 115. Fly swatter 116. Ice pop 117. Electric washing machine 118. Paper shredder 119. automobile self starter 120. road surface markings 121. Fast food restaurant 122. Electric traffic light 123. Regenerative circuit 124. Single-sideband modulation 125. Gas mask 126. Cloverleaf interchange 127. Supermarket 128. Polygraph 129. Wirephoto 130. Band-Aid 131. Bulldozer 132. Masking tape 133. Cotton swab 134. Gas chamber execution 135. Battery eliminator 136. Liquid-fuel rocket 137. Bread slicer machine 138. Jukebox 139. Kool-Aid 140. Recliner 141. Drive Through 142. Ice cube tray 143. Bubble gum 144. Electric razor 145. Iron lung 146. Air Traffic Control 147. Applicator tampon 148. Sunglasses 149. Frozen food 150. Particle accelerator 151. Hubbleâ??s law 152. Car audio 153. Discovery of Pluto 154. Pressure sensitive tape 155. Runway lighting Iâ??m just into the 1930s now. Is this enough, or shall we list the American inventions of the modern day as well? Ninety percent of everything you use in your daily life was â??inventedâ?? by an American. America is a very inventive nation. We invent through necessity. If there is a problem, we figure out the solution that best fits our needs. Then it spreads throughout the rest of the world in use. Part of it is the fact we are so diverse a country with people coming to the US over the past couple of centuries from around the world. Yankee ingenuity is another. Thereâ??s a problem. Find a practical solution. We, Americans, usually do. If thereâ??s a need, we usually will figure out a way to fulfill it. Many Americans have made fortunes doing just that. It is part of our culture. Okay, here are some more inventions and discoveries made by Americans. Your entire modern lifestyle is as good as it is due to American inventions, inventors and American discoveries, and inventions and discoveries funded by American companies and/or the American government. Iâ??ve bolded the inventions that likely you use daily or frequently, or come in contact with. 156. Bathysphere 157. Chocolate chip cookie 158. Radio astronomy 159. Power steering 160. Drive-in theatre 161. Frequency modulation 162. Modern Trampoline 163. Franchising 164. Parking meter 165. pH meter 166. Stock car racing 167. Programming languages 168. Chair lift 169. Shopping cart 170. Xerography 171. Fiberglass 172. Nylon 173. Scrabble 174. Astatine 175. Neptunium 176. Deodorant 177. Defibrillator 178. Curium 179. Americium 180. Slinky 181. Microwave oven 182. Flying disc â?? the Frisbee 183. Correction fluid â?? White Out 184. Mobile phone 185. Instant camera 186. Supersonic aircraft 187. Hair spray 188. Cat litter 189. Video game 190. Berkelium 191. Radiocarbon dating 192. Ice resurfacer â?? the Zamboni 193. Californium 194. Credit card 195. Disposable diaper 196. Sengstaken-Blakemore tube 197. Golf cart 198. Einsteinium 199. Fermium 200. Barcode 201. Artificial heart 202. DNA structure 203. Heart-lung machine 204. Apgar scale 205. MASER 206. TV dinner 207. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation 208. Radar gun 209. Crosby-Kugler capsule 210. Mendelevium 211. Nuclear submarine 212. Videotape 213. Polio vaccine 214. Integrated circuit 215. Barbie doll 216. Satellite navigation system 217. Combined oral contraceptive pill 218. Laser 219. Lawrencium 220. Electret microphone 221. Jet injector 222. Light-emitting diode 223. Computer mouse 224. Lung transplantation 225. Heart transplantation 226. Artificial turf 227. Kevlar 228. Hypertext 229. Minicomputer 230. Compact disc 231. Airbag 232. Hand held calculator 233. Apollo Lunar Module 234. Virtual reality 235. Wide-body aircraft 236. Taser 237. Wireless local area network 238. Optical fiber 239. Personal computer 240. Liquid crystal display 241. Microprocessor 242. E-mail 243. C programming language 244. Video game console 245. Recombinant DNA 246. Catalytic converter 247. Personal watercraft â?? the jetski 248. Operating system 249. Heimlich maneuver 250. Seaborgium 251. Digital camera 252. Ethernet 253. Hepatitis B virus vaccine 254. Magnetic resonance imaging â?? MRI 255. Spreadsheet 256. Human-powered flight 257. Polar fleece 258. Space shuttle 259. Paintball 260. Graphic User Interface 261. Internet 262. Voicemail 263. Firewall 264. Galileo spacecraft 265. Optical space telescope â?? the Hubble 266. Global Positioning System 267. Embryonic stem cells 268. PageRank 269. Virtual globe 270. Microwave Anisotropy Probe 271. Personal transporter â?? Segway 272. iPod 273. Robotic vacuum cleaner 274. NASA X-43 - attaining speeds in excess of Mach 9.8 275. SpaceShipOne - experimental air-launched suborbital spaceplane that used a hybrid rocket motor 276. Mars Exploration Rovers 277. HPV vaccine 278. Three-dimensional model rendering 279. Composite aircraft Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeartThais Posted January 21, 2009 Report Share Posted January 21, 2009 Thais have an amazing ignorance of what Farangs make here. The other day a taxi driver asked me what my university salary was. He guessed at 300,000 baht a month! I told him to divide that by 10 and he'd be closer to the number. He seemed very surprised. "Why so little?" he asked. Plenty of university lecturers have been asking the same thing, which is why many have left to go elsewhere. Why so little? People are drawn here to more than just the money. A business colleague of mine who grew up in BKK once described it as the best city in the world for unambitious people to live not so uncomfortably. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted January 21, 2009 Report Share Posted January 21, 2009 I know very few long term expats who planned to stay here so long when they came. But things happen ... like wives, families etc. When the current Thai govmt university salary was set in the 1990s, it was quite a nice amount to live on. However, it has yet to be increased. Even so, the salary one makes in teaching in the US does not provide for the same standard of living. Teachers' pay sucks everywhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
allistar Posted January 21, 2009 Report Share Posted January 21, 2009 I guess Mekong forgot about the Ipod. About every third post of his in tech. is about the Ipod/Iphone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cavanami Posted January 21, 2009 Report Share Posted January 21, 2009 I guess Mekong forgot about the Ipod. About every third post of his in tech. is about the Ipod/Iphone. Hey, the guy is on it! Good for him, makes my life easier!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
waerth Posted January 21, 2009 Report Share Posted January 21, 2009 Dear Cent .... the Compac Disc was a dutch/japanese invention .... Philips and Sony! I wonder how many more "inventions" you attribute to the US in your list were actually invented elsewhere .... History The compact disc is a spin-off of the much less successful Laserdisc technology. In 1979, Sony and Philips Consumer Electronics set up a joint task force of engineers to design a new digital audio disc. The task force, led by prominent members Kees Schouhamer Immink and Toshitada Doi (å??äº?å?©å¿ ), progressed the research into laser technology and optical discs that had been started by Philips in 1977.[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact_Disc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cavanami Posted January 21, 2009 Report Share Posted January 21, 2009 So the Dutch were in on the CD / DVDs...OK, time to move on as the Dutch have moved on! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
waerth Posted January 21, 2009 Report Share Posted January 21, 2009 And about the telephone (and no these claims involved people from many nationalities, not just Americans .. ): The modern telephone is the culmination of work done by many individuals, all worthy of recognition for their contributions to the field. Alexander Graham Bell was the first to patent the telephone, an "apparatus for transmitting vocal or other sounds telegraphically", after experimenting with many primitive sound transmitters and receivers. However, the history of the invention of the telephone is a confusing collection of claims and counterclaims, made no less confusing by the many lawsuits which attempted to resolve the patent claims of several individuals. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invention_of_the_telephone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cavanami Posted January 21, 2009 Report Share Posted January 21, 2009 I used to sell a pile of phones to my Dutrch friend in Germany as the Bunderpost Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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