95% World Inventions are British

[bearice]

Quote from OldTrader:

In terms of internation patent filings, the British aren't even close. The US is the top country in 2010, and each of the last 5 years according to this report. The US dwarfs the British in patent filings, nearly 10 times as many. The British are Number 7 on the list. Here's the link:

Many Americans are basically British.

Majority of republicans are Germans and people from Ireland.

 

[bearice]

Food recipes is the most important invention in human history and Mothers dominate food recipe invention.

 

[OldTrader]

Quote from CrackPipe:

a patent isnt an invention though is it.

Put that crackpipe down bonehead.

BTW, for the rest of you, let's have a few facts to prove your assertions. Right now, the only fact in this thread is that the US leads the world in international patent filings. Britain is No. 7.

OldTrader

 

[Bob111]

Quote from hoffmanw:

Maybe British people have innovated a lot of things, but most inventions actually come from ancient China: soccer, ice cream, iron casting, compass, pizza, paper, golf, mass production, math, bureaucratic system, banking, currency notes, animation, crossbow, printing, guns (yes, it came from China), machinery, rockets, alcoholic drinks (beers), sausage, etc.... Maybe you have never watched History TV cable channel.

add pasta and many other things..

http://www.minnesota-china.com/education/emSciTech/inventions.htm

bearice-define invention

periodic table of elements

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitri_Mendeleev

 

[reid5525]

Quote from SnakeEYE:

The majority of the world speak american version of English.

If you are in an english speaking foreign country ( Canada, Australia, New Zealand, English speaking Caribbean countries and many others), how do you tell the American. By his accent, you can't miss him. He is the only one that speaks that way.
English speaking countries got the English language from the Englishman. What's different is they all speak English with their unique accents.
All those countries were once colonies of England, including America.

 

[CrackPipe]

Quote from OldTrader:

Put that crackpipe down bonehead.

BTW, for the rest of you, let's have a few facts to prove your assertions. Right now, the only fact in this thread is that the US leads the world in international patent filings. Britain is No. 7.

OldTrader

Kind of irrelevant how many patents you have (which ARE NOT inventions) seeing as america is bankrupt. Everything will be up for sale by next weekend - including your precious patents.

FYI:
A patent is a set of exclusive rights granted by a state (national government) to an inventor or their assignee for a limited period of time

An invention is a better or more effective composition, device, or process.


Therefore, just because a country has a large amount of patents, that does not imply they have the largest number of inventions. It could simply be reflective of the state that grants them.

Equally that as many inventions may not have had patents applied for in the UK, especially in the pre war years when most inventions came about, as greedy american consumerism wasn't the cancer that sweeps the world as it is now.

Lets be objective here.

 

[CrackPipe]

Quote from reid5525:

If you are in an english speaking foreign country ( Canada, Australia, New Zealand, English speaking Caribbean countries and many others), how do you tell the American. By his accent, you can't miss him. He is the only one that speaks that way.
English speaking countries got the English language from the Englishman. What's different is they all speak English with their unique accents.
All those countries were once colonies of England, including America.

You're right. Also, dont forget they also mispronounce words.

Data:
Day-ta = RIGHT
Daa-taa = WRONG

Route:
Roo -t = RIGHT
Row -t = WRONG

 

[bearice]

The British explorer Christopher Columbus discovered America and invented the potato.

Without British there would be no America today.

But who discovered Obama and allowed him to reach USA presidency?

 

[test_user]

Quote from CrackPipe:

?? eh??

Spain has had a few I bet, but Africa has zip. Not one thing. Lets face it apart from sport, Africans have achieved jack shit. Name one famous building, invention, artist, technology, movie, design, thought etc that has came out of Africa.

To me that kind of disproves your theory.

Seems to me the hotter the conditions, the more lazy a man is.

It has been proven it is the COLD weather that forces man to be more creative and geared towards finding solutions as generally, its harder to survive a cold climate than a hot one.

Hey, but that's the same exact thing I said. I meant that Spain and Africa didn't invent anything. You completely misinterpreted what I wrote

 

[bearice]

Quote from SnakeEYE:

The majority of the world speak american version of English.

There are reputed British schools all over the world because British had colonies in many countries. I doubt there are American schools in other countries.

My education is from one of the best British schools in the world that is the reason nobody can defeat me in a debate or argument thanks to my Mother.

I think majority of the world speak British version of English.