What have your people given the world?
By urbandekay
@urbandekay (18278)
3 responses
@veganbliss (3895)
• Adelaide, Australia
11 Jan 12
Recently, in the words of one of your visiting celebrities, we heard "culture? Australians have no culture!". We are not well known for artistic works around the world - of course we think they're great, but you'll need to pop over & see what you think for yourself!
Science & inventions... it's easier to give you a web page to view at your leisure:
http://australia.gov.au/about-australia/australian-story/austn-inventions
How about dear old England? Ask an Afghan civillian what England has given to the world & you would get the response "cricket - cricket will solve all the world's problems". Heard that one on the news last week!
@urbandekay (18278)
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12 Jan 12
So that's where the rotary clothes line comes from
all the best urban
@urbandekay (18278)
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13 Jan 12
They are very popular in UK, due to our land pressure, dwellings are tiny and so are gardens. And despite the popular misconception it doesn't rain quite all the time and it is quite windy which is good for drying
all the best urban
@veganbliss (3895)
• Adelaide, Australia
12 Jan 12
Are they still used in England? Isn't it a little too wet for most people to dry their clothes outdoors? Or are people being forced to do so nowadays due to those power hungry clothes dryers indoors?
@cdparazo (5765)
• Philippines
12 Jan 09
The most popular inventions from the Philippines are:
1. Incubator - by Fe del Mundo whose studies let to the development of incubator and jaundice relieving machine.
2. Karaoke - by Roberto del Rosario
3. Moon Buggy - design was conceptualized by Eduardo San Juan. Lunar rover or moon buggy was the car used by Neil Armstrong and other Apollo astronauts when they first explored the moon in 1969.
4. Videophone - by Gregorio Zara
5. Discovery of Erythromycin - by Dr. Abelardo Aguilar
6. First single-chip graphical user interface accelerator - by Diosdado Banatao that makes computer a lot faster. He also developed the First Windows accelerator chip being used by Intel.
7. Super Bunker Formula-L - Rudy Lantano Sr. invented a revolutionary fuel half-composed of water. 'The mix burns faster and emits pollutants, 95 percent less than those released to the air by traditional fuel products.'
8. Natural Gas Vehicle - developed by Dept. of Energy.
9. coconut oil-fueled power generator - by Felix Maramba
10. Carbonless paper - by Johnson Fong
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@urbandekay (18278)
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12 Jan 09
Thank you, that was interesting to read, I knew none of that and had presumed Karaoke was Japanese.
all the best urban
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@betsyraeduke (2670)
• United States
15 Jan 09
errrr......Is there going to be a test on this?......I hope not.....
I didn't study!!!