Which country invented more things?

If you had to guess, which of these countries has invented more things?

Great Britain 6
Germany 7
United States 10
Japan 3
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  • ospry

    In terms of everyday conveniences, Britain

    In terms of luxury items and entertainment, the United States

    In terms of weird fetish porn and vending machines where you can buy used panties, Japan

    In terms of ungodly levels of sadistic cruelty devised specifically to rid the world of Jews, Germany

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    • To be fair, Germany invented a helluva lot of things under Nazism that have been beneficial to society.

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      • ospry

        Yeah, but until Germany can stop shitting on Israel and decrying the Jewish people as vile hellspawn unworthy of life in every goddamn EU conference, I still regard the entire country and anyone who views it favorably as a piece of shit anti-semite

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        • Yaidin

          I don't know what education you've followed to think Nazi Germany still exists. It's banned in Germany

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        • Maybe because Israel is indeed shit? The people are fine though.

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          • LloydAsher

            Is it? Palistine lost their wars. You lose you dont get to be a state. Tale as old as time.

            Doesnt help when your governing body puts rocket launchers on schools and hospitals. Hamas has done more to set back palistine than Israel intervention.

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          • ospry

            Like its neighbors aren't exponentially shittier. And fucking Germany (well, most of ass-tarded Europe) can't guzzle enough jizz from the dicks of Israel's fanatical, terroristic neighbors eagerly enough

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            • Clunk42

              I am reminded of what Pope Pius X said when asked by Herzl about Zionism:

              "We cannot give approval to this movement. We cannot prevent the Jews from going to Jerusalem – but we could never sanction it. The soil of Jerusalem, if it was not always sacred, has been sanctified by the life of Jesus. As the head of the Church I cannot tell you anything different. The Jews have not recognized our Lord, therefore we cannot recognize the Jewish people."

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            • Actually, I totally agree on that one. The countries surrounding it are way shittier. But that still doesn't make Israel good.

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    • RoyyRogers

      Albert Einstein was a German.

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      • LloydAsher

        Smart too. If only germany wasnt so xenophobic, they would of gotten a nuke first.

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  • 1WeirdGuy

    Some arab told me the other day they invented the toilet I told him shitting in a bucket of his drinking water doesnt count

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    • malaparte

      the flush mechanism used in toilets was invented by Ismail al-Jazari. His ethnicity is uncertain, though some claim that he was an Arab.

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  • AsterBean

    Countries don't invent things, people do.

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    • LloydAsher

      Go back far enough and you lose the individual. All you can pick apart is the rough area where it was first invented. Via finding a really crappy "first" version. Or drawings depicting the first version.

      We know China invented gun powder because of scrolls depicting a spear shooting fire.

      Simple inventions were mostly invented independently from other cultures. Like spears and fire. Or more sophisticated tools like abacuses (calculators)

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  • wigz

    Ron Popeil. Nuff said.

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  • Tommythecaty

    The US liked to employ Germans to create, just change that file to “not an ardent nazi” lol.

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    • LloydAsher

      Better the nazis work for us than the soviet union. Granted we could of executed them after their usefulness but that would dissuade future potentially useful monsters from joining us.

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      • Tommythecaty

        Better than for the Soviet Union, most likely true.

        Though the Soviets lack the scope and ability to use these things to their advantage in the scary way America does. They remind me of the radical Islamic groups, made out to be the boogeyman. But they simply haven’t, and will never, get their shit together effectively enough to warrant the label.

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        • LloydAsher

          Honestly yes. Even our other enemies when they run into the problem of maintaining their high end crap. You need infistructure and logistics to keep your shiny weapons functional. China "could" be closing the gap, but corruption is something to be aware of. We see it in russias performance and their salvaged reserve tanks and APCs.

          China is also facing a problem of getting richer... that's a legitimate problem for china as that means that their money goes shorter than it used to. Their population is getting used to being in the middle class, the status quo. In case of war is the average chinese guy going to throw his life, his parents legacy, and the entire financial safety of his family down the drain? Perhaps but as long as that remains a viable thought propaganda will be a major issue for them in case of war.

          Not that america is uniquely special or anything. Just that we grew organically into our position. We didnt industrialize rapidly, throwing tradition by the way side. We are about as well adjusted to being this powerful as you can be by throwing ourselves into any war with a smidge of self intrest. Sure that kills thousands of soldiers but that experience far outweighs the blood cost expenditure.

          Where as russia seems to have never learned from its prior mistakes and is just patching their war effort in a reactionary way. Numbers stopped being a factor when smart weapons were invented. Though I suppose their rigorous hierarchy is biting them in the ass more than any tech. Much like Arab states who also are incompetent in war. In a stable hierarchy you can trust your underlings to not usurp your rule.

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  • LloydAsher

    If we are talking about patents hands down the usa. So many valves and industrial components.

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  • RoyyRogers

    Many of our great scientists were Germans. Like Albert Einstein for example. I would say historically the number of inventions made would be more between JAPAN and Germany. Japan is considered one of the major technology capitols of the world.

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  • normal-rebellious

    United States invented more things because it's about inventions an American can call American. Japan didn't invent so much since it's a traditionalist nation, and Germany's not inventing much since German things are already invented, the cheese steak's American, USA even invented its own cheese (invented on purpose), because it's not British cheese which is American cheese's origin. Great Britain's concerned with inventing new styles of music and is fiercely making meat-based money as war with vegans since they don't want tallow in their £5 notes! That was Great Britain's invention and it's a problem with vegetarians.

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  • raisinbran

    U.S:
    Gas powered automobiles, airplanes, lightbulb, computers, plastics, skyscrapers, basically everything you see in the modern world.

    Britain:
    The toilet, I think?

    Germany:
    Printing press, radar system, helicopter, rockets, electron microscope, etc.

    Japan:
    Bullet train, jet skis, laptop, 3D printing, emojis, a toilet that squirts water in your butt

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    • Germany invented the automobile though, and the jet engine, the diesel-engine, the printing press, the bicycle, the cathode-ray tube which laid the foundation for screens, and the Haber-Bosch process. I'd argue they give America a run for their money when it comes to inventions.

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    • LloydAsher

      The bidet was a French invention

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    • 1WeirdGuy

      Also the telephone and discovered dna and invented vaccines.

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      • raisinbran

        Yep, everything good and bad.

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