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    Motor racing
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    Quote Originally Posted by Meat Puppet
    Alot of New Zealand people actually just invented there stuff in Britain so there

    What it was, I'm not going to tell you. But I'm sure sometime in my life I've heard such facts, on many occassion.

    duhh
    we're essentialy the same people so you can share the credit for the inventions.
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    Disc Brakes - Frederick William Lanchester
    Durand
    Cat Eyes - Percy Shaw
    Portland Cement - Joseph Aspdin Cordite - Sir James Dewar, Sir Frederick Abel
    Corkscrews - H.S. Heeley
    Crossword Puzzles - Arthur Wynne
    Depth Charges Diving Equipment/Scuba Gear - John Smeaton, William James, Henry Fleuss
    EKG (Underlying Principles) - Various
    Electric Motor - Michael Faraday Electromagnet - William Sturgeon
    Fax Machine - Alexander Bain
    Gas Mask -John Tyndall and others
    Dew-point Hygrometer - John Frederic Daniell Holography - Dennis Gábor
    Internal Combustion Engine - Samuel Brown
    Internet
    Jet Engines - Sir Frank Whittle Kelvin Scale - Lord William Thomson Kelvin
    Metal Lathe - Henry Maudslay invented the first in 1797.
    Lawn Mower - Edwin Beard Budding
    Lightbulbs - Humphry Davy, Sir Joseph Wilson Swan, James Bowman Lindsay Locomotive - Richard Trevithick
    Power Loom - Edmund Cartwright
    Little Nipper Mousetrap - James Henry Atkinson
    Penicillin - Alexander Fleming
    Penny Farthing - James Starley
    Periodic Table - John Newlands Periscope - Sir Howard Grubb
    Polyester - John Rex Whinfield and James Tennant Dickson
    Puckle Gun - John Puckle
    Radar Locating of Aircraft - Sir Robert Alexander Watson-Watt
    Radio (Underlying Principles) - James Clerk Maxwell Rubber Bands - Stephen Perry
    Rubber Masticator - Thomas Hancock
    Seed Drill - Jethro Tull
    Seismometer - James Forbes
    Seismograph - John Milne, Sir James Alfred Ewing, Thomas Gray
    Sewing Machines - Thomas Saint
    Shrapnel - Henry Shrapnel
    Steam Engine - Thomas Savery, Thomas Newcomen, James Watt Steel Production - Sir Henry Bessemer
    Submarine - William Bourne,
    Spinning Jenny - James Hargreaves
    Spinning Frame - Richard Arkwright
    Spinning Mule - Samuel Crompton
    Television - John Logie Baird
    Thermos - Sir James Dewar Toilet Paper - British Perforated Paper Company
    Torpedo - Robert Whitehead 1866
    Umbrella (steel-ribbed) - Samuel Fox
    Universal Joint - Robert Hooke (also Iris Diaphragm, Balance Spring) Vacuum Cleaner - Hubert Cecil Booth
    Viagra - Peter Dunn, Albert Wood, Dr Nicholas Terrett
    Wacky Inventions - Arthur Paul Pedrick
    Waterproof Fabric - Charles Macintosh

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    Quote Originally Posted by ShlupQuack
    Unless he stole the idea, he invented it.

    Not that I actually care.
    Atually the ancient egyptians invented the lightbulb. It was a glaspot which ths would put different gases in and would glow. They found one at the bottom of the Nile.

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    Humour.
    Humour: America has the Jews - the rest of the world has the British.
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    English?


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    telepathy!!!
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    If it ain't made in the USA I'm not buying it.

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    almost nothing is made in usa any more you moron! also the final fantasty series isnt!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Giga Guess
    The Spice Girls!

    What...?
    It is true and it was a sucess until Geri got out of it!

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    Did you know that we made Americans and Australians. We used to send our prisoners over to America until they revolted so we sent them Down-under
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    Radiohead, although I'm sure it's already been said.

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    The British invented...

    The biggest blunder in their history, which resulted in: America.

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    Does anybody know who invented the wheel?

    And supposedly, the British have not yet discovered the toothbrush.

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