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ErroneousBosh a day ago

You didn't invent microwaves. Well, your lot invented the klystron. Know what a klystron is? No? Well there you are.

But I bet you know what the cavity magnetron - invented in Scotland - is. You probably used one today already.

Cellular phones were invented in the UK and Finland. The US didn't even have them until the first couple of generations were obsolete here.

Transistors were invented in Germany, although they were made practical in the US, I'll them that.

gyanchawdhary 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

You are wrong

rascul 15 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> Cellular phones were invented in the UK and Finland. The US didn't even have them until the first couple of generations were obsolete here.

That was before Martin Cooper's cell phone in 1973?

philjohn a day ago | parent | prev [-]

also jet engine

discovered penicillin

ErroneousBosh a day ago | parent [-]

Tarmac, the breech-loading rifle, the first practicable television system even if it wasn't very good, pneumatic tyres...