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Good things America has given the world

Discussion in 'Alley of Dangerous Angles' started by Vermillion, Dec 6, 2002.

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    The guarantee of individual liberties, and that whole "innocent until proven guilty" thing come to mind.

    Technology: Television, telephone, computers, the Internet, the assembly line

    As for elements of pop culture: Michael Jordan, the Les Paul guitar, Muppets, Ice Cream, Levis
     
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    Elvis? :D
     
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    Sly and the Family Stone
     
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    I wasn't implying that you did mention communists :rolleyes: just saying i was going to ignore it. Oh and please look up who invented what before you actually claim americans did rallymama, trust me you may be surprised. Alexander Graham Bell was Scottish after all :D .
    Oh and thats just the first one, go look. And for anyone else interested, go find everything that the Scottish have invented, you will be amazed:D. Don't post them here though if you're going to, this is America's hour ;) .

    Just a minute, two people think the telephone was invented by Americans so far.... :toofar: :nono: Please be sure it's american before you post :book:

    [ December 10, 2002, 00:08: Message edited by: Vermillion ]
     
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    Yeah Jack!
    Are we funckin' now?!!!
    Gotta love Sly!
     
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    Vermillion, everyone claims Bell as one of their own! He moved around so much I think Tuvalu is the only country in the world that can't lay claim to inventing the telephone.

    I forgot to mention earlier... Saffire, the Uppity Blues Women! How could I have forgotten them? Oh, and while we're talking about brilliant artists from Chicago, let's add Charlie Trotter to the list too. Oh, and on the subject of American cuisine- All those west-coast fusion chefs that turned the "nouvelle" joke into a serious cuisine, and more especially southern food like barbecue, fried green tomatoes, southern-fried chicken. Shrimp etouffe, gumbo, jambalaya from Louisiana. Old Bay seasoning from the north-east.

    [ December 10, 2002, 15:19: Message edited by: Sprite ]
     
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    come on guys this whole american love is killing me.
     
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    oh. Alright then. Here goes...

    AMERICA SUCKS!
    breathing again? Good.
    America RULES!
    Oh, you stopped breathing again? I could have loads of fun with this... :D
     
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    [​IMG] Sprite, trust me, go look him up. In fact, I have a couple of new thread ideas :)
     
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    Starbucks and Crispy Creme donuts! :roll:
     
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    Vermillion, as a proud descendent of clan MacLaren, and MacFarlane by marriage, I'm not arguing with you. ;) I'm just saying that it might be a bigger battle than you want to take on!
     
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    [​IMG] robert t ironside :)
     
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    George Carlin
    Denis Leary
    Ben & Jerry's

    Nope, sorry, that's ours.

    Like Crown Royal, basketball is a Canadian thing. It was first played in a YMCA in Springfield, Massachussetts but was invented by James Naismith, who was Canadian.

    [ December 11, 2002, 03:16: Message edited by: JohnnyRTFM ]
     
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    Native americans and their simplistic life which should be guiding us all.

    *now where is my tomahawk* :1eye:
     
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    I got to remove the internet from the American thing too, apparently it was a student in England somewhere that made the break through with computers communicating over telephones lines, I got told last night and more info should be following. I do know that it was developed after that for use in the pentagon and the US military, well I should see soon, hopefully those links should be in my inbox soon :)
     
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    [​IMG] I guess nobody mentioned Chuck Norris yet? DELTA FORCE!
     
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    Bob Dylan. Stevie Wonder. The Simpsons.

    Walt Whitman.

    Potatoes. (came from North America, at least) Wheat belt.

    Jazz. Bluegrass.
     
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    Shaker design, Coke, electric light, a couple of good movies, John Locke, David Thoreau, Raymond Chandler, Dashiel Hammet and Dorothy Parker (some more readable authors) ... a lot of stuff to wonder about :shake:
     
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    From Time's list of 100 most important people of the century:

    Leaders and Revolutionaries:

    Margaret Sanger (made birth control legal)
    Theodore Roosevelt
    Franklin Delano Roosevelt
    Elanor Roosevelt (a trend here? : ))
    Ronald Regan (let the debate begin)
    Martin Luther King

    Artists:

    Martha Graham (dance artist, school founder)
    T.S. Eliot
    Louis Armstrong
    Marlon Brando
    Rodgers and Hammerstein (Oklahoma!)
    Frank Sinatra
    Lucille Ball(I Love Lucy, first female studio head
    Bob Dylan
    Aretha Franklin
    Jim Henson
    Steven Spielberg
    Bart Simpson (what?)
    Oprah Winfrey (insert criticism)

    Builders and Titans:

    Henry Ford (no explanation needed)
    Charles Merrill (Merrill, Lynch)
    Willis Carrier (air conditioning)
    William Levitt (afordable housing)
    Leo Burnett (pioneer of t.v. advertising)
    Ray Kroc (I can smell the outrage, McDonald's)
    Pete Rozelle (NFL football)
    Sam Walton (Wal-Mart)
    A.P. Giannini (banker, helped Italy's workers)
    Stephen Bechtel (Hoover Dam, nuc power etc)
    Walt Disney
    Juan Trippe (Pan-Am founder)
    Walter Reuther (key in union movement)
    Thomas Watson Jr. (built IBM)
    Estee Lauder (beauty as business)
    Bill Gates

    Scientists and Thinkers

    The Wright Brothers (flight)
    Robert Goddard (rocket scientist)
    Jonas Salk (polio vaccine)
    Edwin Hubble(proves univers is expanding etc)
    Philo Farnsworth (television)
    James Watson ("secret to life" genetics)

    Heroes and Icons

    Helen Keller (altered perception of disabled)
    Charles Lindbergh (flew across Atlantic)
    Bill Wilson (started 12 step program)
    The American G.I. (insert snide comment)
    Jackie Robinson (broke the color barrier)
    Billy Graham (hmmm)
    Rosa Parks (civil rights)
    Marilyn Monroe (sex symbol)
    The Kennedys
    Muhammad Ali
    Bruce Lee (yep, born in California)
    Harvey Milk (first openly gay in political office)

    http://www.time.com/time/time100/index.html

    From LSU:

    Calculating Maqchines and Computers:
    Platform scales 1830 Thaddeus Fairbanks
    Cash register 1879 James Ritty
    Comptometer 1885 Dorr E. Felt
    Adding machine 1888 W. Burroughs
    Mechanical computer 1928 Vannevar Bush
    Automatic digital computer 1944 Howard Aiken
    Electronic digital computer 1946 J.P. Eckert
    J.W. Mauchly
    Electronic pocket calculator 1972 J.S. Kilby
    J.D. Merryman
    Supercomputer 1976 J.H. Van Tassel
    Parallel computing 1979 Seymour R. Cray, Jr.
    David Gelernter

    Cloth and Clothing:
    Cotton gin 1793 Eli Whitney
    Rubber vulcanization 1839 C. Goodyear
    Sewing machine 1845 Elias Howe
    Shoe welt stitcher 1874 C. Goodyear, Jr.
    Zipper 1893 W.L. Judson
    Rubber heel 1896 H. O'Sullivan
    Cotton-picking machine 1936 John and Mack Rust
    Nylon 1937 W.H. Carothers

    Communications:
    Typewriter 1829 W.A. Burt
    Telegraph 1837 S.F.B. Morse
    Morse code 1838 S.F.B. Morse
    Rotary printing press 1846 Richard M. Hoe
    Web-fed rotary press 1865 William Bullock
    Telephone 1876 A.G. Bell
    Phonograph 1877 Thomas Edison
    Microphone 1878 D.E. Hughes
    Linotype 1883 O. Mergenthaler
    Fountain pen 1884 L.E. Waterman
    Flexible roll film 1884 George Eastman
    Halftone engraving 1886 F.E. Ives
    Monotype 1887 Tolbert Lanston
    Kodak camera 1888 George Eastman
    Movie projector 1893 Thomas Edison
    Telephotography 1904 Arthur Korn
    Audion 1906 Lee De Forest
    Superheterodyne radio circuit 1918 E.H. Armstrong
    Sound motion pictures 1922-26 T.W. Case
    Iconoscope 1923 V. Zworykin
    Loudspeaker 1924 C.W. Rice E.W. Kellogg
    Image dissector 1928 P. Farnsworth
    Frequency modulation (FM) 1933 E.H. Armstrong
    Xerography 1942 Chester Carlson
    LP record 1948 Peter Carl Goldmark
    Polaroid camera 1948 Edwin Land Walter H. Brattain
    Videotape 1956 Charles Ginsberg Ray Dolby

    Construction:
    Cylinder lock 1860 Linus Yale
    Carborundum 1891 E.G. Acheson
    Air conditioning 1911 W.H. Carrier

    Electricity and Electronics:
    Arc lamp 1878 C.F. Brush
    Incandescent lamp 1879 Thomas Edison
    Transformer 1885 William Stanley
    Transistor 1948 William Shockley John Bardeen
    Laser 1958 Gordon Gould
    Integrated circuit 1959 Jack Kilby Robert Noyce
    Light-emitting diode 1962 Nick Holonyak, Jr.
    Liquid-crystal display 1964 George Heilmeier
    Microprocessor 1971 Ted Hoff

    Food and Agriculture:
    Cast-iron plow 1797 Charles Newbold
    Ice-making machine 1830 Jacob Perkins
    Reaper 1831 Cyrus McCormick
    Steel plow 1837 John Deere
    Refrigerating machine 1851 John Gorrie
    Condensed milk 1853 Gail Borden
    Harvester 1858 Charles and William Marsh
    Refrigerator car 1877 G.F. Swift
    Milk test 1890 S.M. Babcock
    Quick-frozen food 1925 C. Birdseye
    Microwave oven 1947 Percy L. Spencer

    Medicine and Biotechnology:
    Cardiac pacemaker 1932 A.S. Hyman
    Polio vaccine 1954 Jonas Salk
    Oral contraceptive 1955 Gregory Pincus
    CAT scanner 1968 Allan Cormack (co-inventor)
    Nuclear magnetic resonance imaging 1971 Raymond Damadian
    Recombinant-DNA technology 1972-73 Paul Berg
    Herbert W. Boyer Stanley Cohen
    Positron emission tomography 1978 Louis Sokoloff
    Jarvik-7 artificial heart 1978 Robert K. Jarvik

    Industrial Materials:
    Babbitt metal 1838 Isaac Babbitt
    Bessemer converter 1851 William Kelly
    Aluminum reduction 1886 Charles M. Hall (co-inv)
    Bottle-making machinery 1904 Michael J. Owens

    Scientific Instruments and Devices:
    Bifocal spectacles 1760 Benjamin Franklin
    Bathysphere 1930 Charles William Beebe
    Cyclotron 1931 E.O. Lawrence
    Betatron 1940 D.W. Kerst
    Nuclear reactor 1942 Enrico Fermi
    Synchrocyclotron 1945 E.M. McMillan (co-inv)
    Maser 1953 Charles Townes
    Carbon dating 1955 W.F. Libby
    Superconducting magnetic levitation 1968 James Powell (co-inv)

    Transportation and Energy:
    Steamboat 1787 John Fitch
    Screw propeller 1804 John Stevens
    Electric streetcar 1834 Thomas Davenport
    Hydraulic turbine 1849 James B. Francis
    Elevator 1852 Elisha G. Otis
    Sleeping car 1857 George M. Pullman
    Streamlined train 1865 Samuel Calthrop
    Railway air brakes 1868 G. Westinghouse
    Car coupler 1873 Eli H. Janney
    Tesla Coil 1891 Nikola Tesla (naturalized)
    Self-powered model airplane 1896 S.P. Langley
    Airplane 1903 Wright brothers
    Gyrocompass 1911 Elmer A. Sperry
    Automobile self-starter 1911 C.F. Kettering
    Hydroplane 1911 Glenn Curtis
    Ethyl gasoline 1922 T. Midgley, Jr
    Traffic Signal 1923 Garrett Morgan
    Electricity-producing breeder reactor 1951 Atomic Energy Commission
    Solar cell 1954 D.M. Chaplin C.S. Fuller
    G.L. Pearson

    [ December 14, 2002, 02:25: Message edited by: Laches ]
     
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