Slovakia
Helicopter - Ján Bahýľ - he's invented it, but failed to attract investors for the development and manufacture of helicopter, so his idea was stolen by two french guys which are known as helicopter creators nowadays.
Radio - Jozef Murgaš
Parachute - Štefan Banič
Camera lens - Jozef Maximilián Petzval
Fun fact: Did you know that Slovakia was known as "European tiger" (european equivalent to Asian tigers) in economy and had highest GDP before start of economy crisis in 2009?
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No but the chech got Tesla... its kinda like is there anything you haven't invented.
Well the chinese list is gonna be pretty long as far as countries go, since arabia is not exactly a country.
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How can one be Croatian if he was a son of Serbian priest, and his mother was a daughter of another Serbian priest, and he was born in Austria-Hungary and died in the USA. The only Croatia he ever knew of was geographical term for a part of Austria-Hungary and later Kingdom of Yugoslavia.
Tesla was an American of Serbian descent.
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I'm guessing whatever these guys invented/discovered. But without even looking at the list as far as I know John Atanasoff made the first computer, we even have a programming competition names after him. :D
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Games played with curved sticks and a ball can be found in the histories of many cultures. In Egypt, 4000-year-old carvings feature teams with sticks and a projectile, hurling dates to before 1272 BC in Ireland, and there is a depiction from c.600 BC in Ancient Greece where the game may have been called kerētízein or kerhtízein (κερητίζειν) because it was played with a horn or horn-like stick(kéras, κέρας) In Inner Mongolia, the Daur people have been playing beikou, a game similar to modern field hockey, for about 1,000 years
Most evidence of hockey-like games during the Middle Ages is found in legislation concerning sports and games. Similar to Edward's proclamation was the Galway Statute enacted in Ireland in 1527, which banned certain types of ball games, including hockey.
from Wikipedia
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This topic can only lead to measuring of e-peens with a lot of untrue data used as proof. After all, all the great things were invented by individuals, not by nations, so there's nothing for any of us to be proud of, just because we were randomly born in some or another part of the world.
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So I was just having one of my random thoughts between studying and thought this one might be interesting. What are some of the cool/weird/important/stupid/everyday use/funny/etc. inventions and discoveries of your nation? Feel free to share some you find interesting enough.
I'll start, so you have an idea of what I am thinking about.
Czech
Everyday use: contact lenses, nylon, all kinds of medicine, blood types
Interesting: lightning conductor, ship propeller
Cool: semtex, the word "robot"
Funny: sugar cubes
Fun fact: Did you know it was a Czech person who saved McDonalds from going bankrupt/disappearing and made it what it is today?
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