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    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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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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    how about rock&roll, venture bros, star wars??
gimme a minute while i compile a more thorough list.
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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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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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"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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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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How about any positive contributions?? im sure they have managed to stumble onto some good deeds...
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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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The photoelectric cell used in solar panels.

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Lots and lots and lots of technological gains.
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Jazz is a positive contribution.
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The lightbulb was invented by a Dutch company, Philips.
 
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US will be rembered for the moonshot. That is their one undisputed contribution to civilization.
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    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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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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I think Thomas Edison improved the light bulb, but didnt invent it.
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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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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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