Proof of American Exceptionalism

[Revoltingest]

Breakfast cereal was created by Dr. John Harvey Kellogg, in 1878 and named it granola.

You cannot win.
They'll even say that we never landed on the Moon.
Nothing was ever invented or accomplished here.

 

[Augustus]

Here is proof that America is exceptional by innovation. Americans invented (and/or) discovered the following:

• Electric generation
• Mass communication
• Sound recording
• Motion picture
• Incandescent lamp (light bulb)
• Microwave ovens
• Refrigerators
• Silicon (computer) chips
• First digital computer
• Nuclear fission

...This is just for starters.

Meh.

Mass communication existed at least as early as the printing press so, German. Nuclear fission was also some German I think.

Electric lights (and the incandescent bulb), electric generation and refrigerators were actually invented by British people.

As were:
TV
Telephone
Antibiotics
Vaccines
World wide web
Telegraph
Steam engine
Passenger trains
Electric motor
Jet engine
Tank
Bicycle
Much of the stuff that drove the industrial revolution
Programmable computers
Vacuum cleaner
Hypodermic syringe

and so forth... List of British innovations and discoveries - Wikipedia

 

[Cooky]

Meh.

Mass communication existed at least as early as the printing press so, German. Nuclear fission was also some German I think.

Electric lights (and the incandescent bulb), electric generation and refrigerators were actually invented by British people.

As were:
TV
Telephone
Antibiotics
Vaccines
World wide web
Telegraph
Steam engine
Passenger trains
Electric motor
Jet engine
Tank
Bicycle
Much of the stuff that drove the industrial revolution
Programmable computers
Vacuum cleaner
Hypodermic syringe

and so forth... List of British innovations and discoveries - Wikipedia

America itself was invented by British people.

 

[Dan From Smithville]

I would think it exceptional if the USA didn't invent so much - given their wealth - much like sporting achievements are so often related to how much money one throws at them. And likewise, many other inventions could be attributed to the dominance of other nations when they were apparently top dogs. I think you guys are in need of a hug.

I think that some of that innovation helped secure our position, but you are correct, when resources become increasingly more available, it would be a surprise that increasing innovation did not follow.

I appreciate it.

 

[Cooky]

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