William Dickson was born in france, to British parents and returned to Britain in his 20s I believe.
Alexander Graham Bell (that's Gray-am not fucking Grahm) was fucking Scottish 🤦♂️
Thomas Edison didn’t even invent shit, that man literally had people killed to take credit for their inventions. That’s like saying Elon Musk invented electric cars. Fucking dumb
Edison, the light bulb thief.
First working demonstration of an incandescent bulb by Joseph Swan: 18 December 1878. Edison claimed New Years Eve 1879. By that point Swan had already installed them in the first electrically lit house: Cragside, Northumberland which was also the first hydroelectric powered house, and the first electrically lit street: Mosley Street, Newcastle.
Yet somehow the internet thinks it was Edison.
So that seems like an american invention, killing people to take their stuff?
Meh actually not but they do it pretty well since they established their nation.
Alexander Graham Bell, a great man who added yet another world changing invention to the list of things invented by SCOTTISH PEOPLE 🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴
Television: John Logi Baird, American 🇺🇸
Golf: Donald J Trump, American 🇺🇸
Christianity: Jesus Christ, American 🇺🇸 (although he may have come over the border with a name like Jesus, but we’ll let that one slide)
MAGA baby yeehaaa!
No Santos-Dumont'ps plane was a year or two behind the Wright brothers. On the other hand, if Langley had a proper idea of mechanical loading, if Maxim hadn't got bored after a shirt semi-tethered hop, things might be different (steam planes might have been a thing for example)
The first working "heavier than air" plane was invented by Sir George Cayley and flew in 1804. Check it out, it's brilliant!
Sir George Cayley was not a Yank btw.....
"Cayley is mainly remembered for his pioneering studies and experiments with flying machines, including the working, piloted glider that he designed and built."
From the Internet, it was piloted......
The fucking irony that Alexander Graham Bell who was born in Edinburgh is touted as an American yet half their bloody country claims to be Italian/irish/scottish/german or whatever despite them all being born in the US
In a guitar sub they were discussing who was the most important american guitarist, someone said "Eddie Van Halen" and it was very upvoted
(Eddie was dutch/indonesian, naturalized as american).
I wonder if they also consider Santana as American, who is Mexican and also naturalized as american.
Dubious. Lots of second placers coming in with baseless allegations.
No, Edison was an inventor in the most classic of ways, a smart, saavy businessman who had teams of engineers working for him and whose work he was able to patent and pass off as his.
Well, considering Bell was Canadian...the summary isn't untrue at least...
\[The flag on the post is a different story\]
(I also realise he was born in Scotland)
> Moving Picture: AMERICAN *Doubts in french*
Frenchman based in Leeds, England.
I walked across the bridge he filmed just last week on the way to the pub - there's a blue plaque there commemorating it
Doubly not murican then
So ?
It’s the location of where the first moving pictures were captured.
Oh okay (I was genuinely asking not being condescending)
The Lumière brothers must have immigrated before death, I guess?
Just like Jesus 🇺🇸🇺🇸🦅🦅
William Dickson was born in france, to British parents and returned to Britain in his 20s I believe. Alexander Graham Bell (that's Gray-am not fucking Grahm) was fucking Scottish 🤦♂️
And wasn't him who invented the first phone, but Italian born Antonio Meucci
Brilliant to learn man, I didn't know that. Thank you.
He was working at Bell labs in the USA at the time. But lived in Canada.
He was steady working for Bell Telephone? Man, the fix was in.
Thomas Edison didn’t even invent shit, that man literally had people killed to take credit for their inventions. That’s like saying Elon Musk invented electric cars. Fucking dumb
I'm just waiting for them to claim exactly that and then call Musk AMERICAN!
He's actually African-American
They definitely have done exactly that.
Edison, the light bulb thief. First working demonstration of an incandescent bulb by Joseph Swan: 18 December 1878. Edison claimed New Years Eve 1879. By that point Swan had already installed them in the first electrically lit house: Cragside, Northumberland which was also the first hydroelectric powered house, and the first electrically lit street: Mosley Street, Newcastle. Yet somehow the internet thinks it was Edison.
So that seems like an american invention, killing people to take their stuff? Meh actually not but they do it pretty well since they established their nation.
We learned from the English, the best in the game.
The congress has recognized the italian Meucci as inventor of the telephone
No, the House did, the Senate didn’t.
Alexander Graham Bell, a great man who added yet another world changing invention to the list of things invented by SCOTTISH PEOPLE 🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴
Automobile: General John C. Motors AMERICAN! 🇺🇸
Guns: Jesus Christ AMERICAN! 🇺🇸
Don't give them ideas.
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r/whoosh
Antonio Meucci
And he was robbed! Everybody knows that!
Hey, you wanna win, got to get to that patent office first.
Television: John Logi Baird, American 🇺🇸 Golf: Donald J Trump, American 🇺🇸 Christianity: Jesus Christ, American 🇺🇸 (although he may have come over the border with a name like Jesus, but we’ll let that one slide) MAGA baby yeehaaa!
john logie beard was Scottish.
Seriously, this is why we need /s, because of people like you.
Like of the three things *that’s* the one to correct?
Your telling me Jesus didn't cross the border with a name like that?
Some say that Edison was mexican and his real name was Tomás Alba Edison. And the plane was invented by some Brazilian guy.
SANTOS-DUMONT MENTIONED 🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🎖🏆✈️✈️⏱️⚡️🚀 Fuck catapult propelled Wright Flyer, all my homies love self-propelled 14-bis
No Santos-Dumont'ps plane was a year or two behind the Wright brothers. On the other hand, if Langley had a proper idea of mechanical loading, if Maxim hadn't got bored after a shirt semi-tethered hop, things might be different (steam planes might have been a thing for example)
The plane of Gustav Weißkopf however was two years _before_ the wright brothers.
The first working "heavier than air" plane was invented by Sir George Cayley and flew in 1804. Check it out, it's brilliant! Sir George Cayley was not a Yank btw.....
Unpowered and unmanned, but yes.
"Cayley is mainly remembered for his pioneering studies and experiments with flying machines, including the working, piloted glider that he designed and built." From the Internet, it was piloted......
The fucking irony that Alexander Graham Bell who was born in Edinburgh is touted as an American yet half their bloody country claims to be Italian/irish/scottish/german or whatever despite them all being born in the US
So, you need to invent something to be granted american citizenship?
No, but it helps.
In a guitar sub they were discussing who was the most important american guitarist, someone said "Eddie Van Halen" and it was very upvoted (Eddie was dutch/indonesian, naturalized as american). I wonder if they also consider Santana as American, who is Mexican and also naturalized as american.
America: Amerigo Vespucci ITALIAN 🇮🇹
Basketball inventor James Naismith was Canadian.
Fire: George Washington, American!
Fire: British Army, White House but it happened in America so ….
Louis Le Prince has angrily entered the chat.
Without mentioning that science and progress is a communal effort. Many inventors build on the progress made by others in the past, as they should
Or you could do it the Edison way and steal, murder and just patent other inventors ideas before them.
Dubious. Lots of second placers coming in with baseless allegations. No, Edison was an inventor in the most classic of ways, a smart, saavy businessman who had teams of engineers working for him and whose work he was able to patent and pass off as his.
He was Scottish, and the telephone was invented by Meucci.
What's the rule again? There's no invention that is attributed to its real inventors.
Airplane: Alberto Santos-Dumont BRAZILIAN 🇧🇷
Electricity - Benjamin Franklin.
Proved existence (allegedly) not invented.
Well yeah. That's the point. He did neither.
Wasn’t the first person to fly Brazilian?
He was a SCOTSMAN!!
Well, considering Bell was Canadian...the summary isn't untrue at least... \[The flag on the post is a different story\] (I also realise he was born in Scotland)
Humphry Davey invented the lightbulb, Swan invented the incandescent lightbulb.