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Topic: America's Contributions To Society Posted: 14-Nov-2006 at 00:51 |
If for some odd reason the United States ceased to be, What major contributions to society has it made and which one would you deem most important?? please list as many as you can from space travel to medicine to engineering to anything.. , thanks.
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Posted: 14-Nov-2006 at 03:30 |
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart,The Godfather,Isaac Asimov,Bob Dylan,Carl Barks,blue jeans,the lightbulb,i-pod shuffle,Angelina Jolie,the zipper,air-conditioning,television,frozen pizzas,coca-cola,baseball caps
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Posted: 14-Nov-2006 at 04:13 |
how about rock&roll, venture bros, star wars??
gimme a minute while i compile a more thorough list.
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Posted: 14-Nov-2006 at 05:02 |
Worldwide the most impact must surely be fast food restaurants. By far the most visible US culture everywhere.
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...And Transnational Corporations
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Posted: 14-Nov-2006 at 05:55 |
i could just look this up but for why dont one of you guys tell me who gets the credit for the internet?
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Posted: 14-Nov-2006 at 06:01 |
"Were all living in America, coca cola Wunderbar- Rammstein"
Americas important asset is like someone said its food chains, but also Hollywood, Music companies, Shoe/Clothes brands.
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Posted: 14-Nov-2006 at 06:13 |
The only uniquely American contribution I can think of, off-hand anyway, is jazz. Without America jazz wouldn't have happened.
There are a number of other technological, artistic and such innovations that first happened in America, but all of those I can think of would have happened somewhere else in pretty short order.
(That's true of most of those quoted above, except for television which was a British invention - though again the BBC was only a short distance ahead in introducing TV broadcasting.)
With regard to the internet, it depends what you mean. If you really mean the Internet, it was American, though it was built on the back of a lot of international work on networks. If you mean the world-wide-web then it was invented by a Briton (Berners-Lee) working in Switzerland.
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Posted: 14-Nov-2006 at 06:18 |
How about any positive contributions?? im sure they have managed to stumble onto some good deeds...
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Posted: 14-Nov-2006 at 07:19 |
I would say the development of the semi conductor leading to
the microprocessor.
Shockley, Brattain and Bardeen are credited with the
greatest contribution to the development of semiconductors and solid state
transistors, gaining them a nobel prise in 1947.
I would say this alone is a magnificent achievement, as just
about any piece of electronics bought today will employ semiconductor
technology.
Not sure about television and the light bulb though padem.
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Posted: 14-Nov-2006 at 07:23 |
The photoelectric cell used in solar panels.
Russell Ohl, 1940
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Posted: 14-Nov-2006 at 07:44 |
Lots and lots and lots of technological gains.
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Posted: 14-Nov-2006 at 08:21 |
Jazz is a positive contribution.
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Posted: 14-Nov-2006 at 09:23 |
The lightbulb was invented by a Dutch company, Philips.
GCLE, what about the blues?
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Posted: 14-Nov-2006 at 09:51 |
US will be rembered for the moonshot. That is their one undisputed contribution to civilization.
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Posted: 14-Nov-2006 at 10:46 |
Originally posted by Consular
If for some odd reason the
United States ceased to be, What major contributions to society has it
made and which one would you deem most important?? please list as many
as you can from space travel to medicine to engineering to anything.. ,
thanks. |
I think that being able to travel to space is something we should give
Russian civilisation credit for more than American. They were the first
nation to breach the confines of earth's atmosphere, afterall.
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Posted: 14-Nov-2006 at 11:16 |
Originally posted by Aelfgifu
The lightbulb was invented by a Dutch company, Philips.
GCLE, what about the blues? |
The lightbulb was invented by Thomas Edison, in the USA, in the 1800s...
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Posted: 14-Nov-2006 at 11:20 |
I think Thomas Edison improved the light bulb, but didnt invent
it.
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Posted: 14-Nov-2006 at 13:14 |
Jazz for sure.
When I look at Europe, I see highways and cheaper building construction styles as an American contribution. Not necessarily invented in America, but probably going after the American example, wouldn't you say?
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Posted: 14-Nov-2006 at 14:26 |
Well. These are the achievements of the United States that I can recall
(1) Series manufacturing.
(2) Quite a lots of inventors, the top one being Edison.
(3) Modern democratic system.
(4) First flight.
(5) First landing on the Moon.
(6) Jazz, Blues, Rock (modern music)
(7) Science fiction (Asimov, Heinlein et al.)
(8) Comic magazines (Superman, donald duck, etc.)
(9) Animation movies (Walt Disney)
(10) Color TV and other modern technologies.
(11) Atomic bomb and nuclear reactors.
(12) Semiconductors.
(13) Intercontinental missil.
(14) Electronic digital computers.
(15) First compiler (a key technology to develop software)
(16) Windows, mouses, internet and other computer tecnologies.
(17) Genetics, genoma project.
(18) Porn movies.
(19) Fast food restaurants.
(20) Nucler submarines.
(21) Data Bases
Those are some of the more important, for good or better, that I can recall.
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