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Originally Posted by Eisenhower
I was thinking... we invented the light bulb, telephone, television, radio, video games, basketball, baseball, football ( all the important one's! ) computers  , the internet for cryin'-out-loud, and we've been to the moon & back, and the list goes on... this country's suh-weet! |
Well the T.V was an evolution started be a German call Paul Nipkow.. it was kind of a scanning disc image... then a Scotsman By the name of John Logie Baird is well remembered for building the Mechanical T.V... he also invented the first Colour picture tube.... also in the 1920's Charles Frances Jenkins invented his version of the Mechanical T.V... which he called radio vision.
CRT was invented by a German called Karl Braun in 1897... and it goes on really.
Radio... Guglielmo Marconi (Italian) in 1895 Recieved his first radio signal, 1899 flashed the first wireless signal across the English Channel... Granted Mahlon Loomis was the first to demonstrate the possibility of wireless communication... but Nikola Tesla (Croatian) is credited as being the first to patent Radio technology 1943.
And Football... well i guess you mean "American Football".. a modified version of Rugby really which was invented by William Webb Ellis.
Basketball Was a Canadian guy called James Naismith.
The guy that started all the Computer stuff off was a German called Konrad Zuse who basically invented the first freely programmable computer... in 1936
And the Lightbulb... well there is a list before it gets to Edison (Edison basically improved the design and made the first Bulb to last over 1200 hours) but that wasn't until 1880.. electric Light was invented by an english guy called Humphry Davy in 1809
Warren De La Rue invented the first type of tube lamp in 1820
Scotsman James Lindsay invented a prototype Bulb in 1835
German Henricg Globel invented the first true Lightbulb in 1854.
but the others i'll give you...