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    Will03
    last edited by 11 Feb 2008, 17:23

    afraid it's already happened... it was a little while ago, I believe they are in the process of the merge

    the insider info you really should be looking for out of Canada, is Lulu Lemon, a yoga based clothing company (exploding here in Canada, crazy popular) They have announced that they will be going public, and if I can get my hands on some o dat stock, I will just retire! lol

    Check it out!

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      Krisidious
      last edited by 11 Feb 2008, 17:24

      I might play with that mouse and read those quips all night long... lol

      By: Kristoff Rand
      Home DesignerUnique House Plans

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        Alan Fraser
        last edited by 11 Feb 2008, 17:25

        My favourite 5? The modern flushing toilet...who cares whether it's a vortex or not. πŸ˜‰ The steam engine. Railways. The electric motor. Antibiotics.

        BTW. did you know that the first manned, powered, controlled, heavier-than-air flight was in Sheffield in 1848? The only trouble was that it used a steam engine, as the internal combustion engine hadn't been invented, so it's development potential was rather limited.

        Here's a few varied and mildly interesting Liverpool World records...mostly achievements rather than inventions.

        First Grammar School (1522)
        First recorded cargo from America (1648)
        First lending library (1758)
        First lighthouse to use parabolic reflectors (1763)
        First public use of Ether as an anaesthetic (1776)
        First US consul...James Maury (1790)
        First School for the Blind (1791)
        First School for the Deaf (1825)
        First public railway...and fatality (1830)
        First scheduled transatlantic service (1840)
        SPCA, later RSPCA founded (1841)
        First Medical Officer of Health (1847)
        First Rugby Club (1857)
        Received the surrender of the last Confederate ship, CSS Shenandoah (1865)
        (Liverpool had built quite a few of them...like the CSS Alabama)
        First under-river railway tunnel (1886)
        First overhead electric railway (1893)
        First automatic telephone exchange (1912)
        First lighthouse equipped with radar (1947)
        First bank to use a computer (1960)
        First police force to use CCTV (1964)

        3D Figures
        Were you required to walk 500 miles? Were you advised to walk 500 more?
        You could be entitled to compensation. Call the Pro Claimers now!

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          Daniel
          last edited by 11 Feb 2008, 17:25

          From the USA:
          The skyscraper
          The elevator
          air conditioning
          Rock-n-Roll

          last but not least....SketchUp!

          My avatar is an anachronism.

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            Shaun Tennant
            last edited by 11 Feb 2008, 17:26

            Canada- Invented Alex Trebek

            Whether they find a life there or not, I think Jupiter should be called an enemy planet.

            • Jack Handey
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              Will03
              last edited by 11 Feb 2008, 17:26

              I was pretty sure hes a cyborg...

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                boofredlay
                last edited by 12 Feb 2008, 10:17

                @shaun tennant said:

                Canada- Invented Alex Trebek.

                πŸ˜†

                Ohhhh. Let me catch my breath. Hmmm.

                Ok.

                Another for the USA, DISC GOLF

                http://www.coroflot.com/boofredlay

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                  John Sayers
                  last edited by 12 Feb 2008, 10:17

                  Australia has made it's mark in a few areas.

                  1. the Ute (1934), known in the US as a pickup.
                  2. the IVF freeze-thaw method for storing embryos (1983.
                  3. anti-counterfeiting technology for banknotes (1992).
                  4. Penicillin (1944)'s antibiotic properties were discovered and developed by Australian Howard Florey.
                  5. the plastic disposable syringe (1949).
                  6. ultrasound (1976), pioneered in Australia
                  7. black box flight recorders (1961)
                  8. Racecam TV sport coverage (1979).

                  When I was at boarding school in New Zealand I spend a sunday playing around in the prototype of what became The Hamilton Jet Boat and later the Jet Ski.

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                    Krisidious
                    last edited by 12 Feb 2008, 10:17

                    1. the Ute (1934), known in the US as a pickup.

                    I knew there was a reason I loved Australia...

                    By: Kristoff Rand
                    Home DesignerUnique House Plans

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                      sorgesu
                      last edited by 12 Feb 2008, 10:19

                      Ohh, this is right up my alley. I specialized in weird topics for my oral speeches in high school: I did one on the history of the toilet:
                      the first flush was over 2000 years ago in Crete:

                      The Brassiere is named after Phillipe de Brassiere but he never patented it and the patent instead went to an engineer named Otto Titzling. (watch how you pronounce that) His marketing managaer was Hans Delving. (never mind)

                      I did onE on the history of Swearing too, shall I get started?

                      Susan Sorger
                      Former Seller Hand Rendered Entourage
                      Former Canadian Authorized Training Centre, SketchUp

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                        boofredlay
                        last edited by 12 Feb 2008, 10:19

                        Hell yeah.

                        http://www.coroflot.com/boofredlay

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                          Ross Macintosh
                          last edited by 12 Feb 2008, 10:19

                          Canadians Frederick Banting & Charles Best discovered insulin in 1922. Estimates show there are more than 15 million diabetics living today who would have died at an early age without insulin.

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                            sorgesu
                            last edited by 12 Feb 2008, 10:21

                            YOu asked for it "Gadzooks" (God's Hooks), "sblood" (God's blood)

                            A CURSE: "may you grow like an onion, with your head in the ground"

                            Susan Sorger
                            Former Seller Hand Rendered Entourage
                            Former Canadian Authorized Training Centre, SketchUp

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                              tomsdesk
                              last edited by 12 Feb 2008, 10:21

                              Kansas City inventions include:

                              Teflon, Eskimo Pie, M&M candy coating, the jazz jam session, the swing sound in jazz music, Wishbone salad dressing, the McDonald's Happy Meal, the multi-screen theater concept.

                              Proud of:

                              That "melts in your mouth, not in your hands" coating it pretty amazing...and tasty!

                              http://www.tomsdesk.moonfruit.com/
                              2.5D Trees & Shrubs!

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                                Anssi
                                last edited by 12 Feb 2008, 10:21

                                Inventions claimed to be Finnish:
                                Sauna
                                Women's right to vote (1906)
                                The Molotov Cocktail
                                The mobile phone (Nokia is a Finnish company that originally made rubber boots and car tyres)

                                Anssi

                                securi adversus homines, securi adversus deos rem difficillimam adsecuti sunt, ut illis ne voto quidem opus esset

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                                  Will03
                                  last edited by 12 Feb 2008, 10:23

                                  Tom,

                                  I hate to correct you, but the multiplex is a Canadian invention...
                                  http://www.histori.ca/minutes/minute.do?id=10229

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                                    Daniel Bouchard
                                    last edited by 12 Feb 2008, 10:24

                                    Other canadians inventions;

                                    • Lightbulb (first patented) - Henry Woodward (1874)
                                    • Garbage bag (green plastic) - Harry Wasyluk and Larry Hanson (1950s)
                                    • Snowblower - Arthur Sicard (1927)
                                    • Snowmobile - Joseph-Armand Bombardier (1937)
                                    • Anti-Gravity Suit Invented by Wilbur Rounding Franks in 1941
                                    • Electric Car Heater - Thomas Ahearn invented the first electric car heater in 1890
                                    • Kerosene Invented by Doctor Abraham Gesner in 1846
                                    • Music Synthesizer Invented by Hugh Le Caine in 1945
                                    • Walkie-Talkie Invented by Donald L. Hings in 1942
                                    • Wireless Radio Invented by Reginald A. Fessenden in 1900

                                    and one of the best!

                                    • zipper - Invented by Gideon Sundback (1913)

                                    And I think then all of these inventors was under 14 years old!!! πŸ˜† πŸ˜† πŸ˜†

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                                      tomsdesk
                                      last edited by 12 Feb 2008, 10:25

                                      Will, I stand corrected...

                                      "North America's first two-screen theatre, The Elgin Theatre was created in 1957 by Nat Taylor in Ottawa, Ontario, when he expanded the 20 year old facility. Taylor is credited as inventor of the multiplex or cineplex, and later founded the Cineplex Odeon Corporation, opening the 18-screen Toronto Eaton Centre Cineplex, the world's largest at the time.[1]

                                      Stanley Durwood of American Multi-Cinema (now AMC Theatres) pioneered what would become the multiplex in 1963 after realizing that he could operate several attached auditoriums with the same staff needed for one through careful management of the start times for each movie."

                                      ...sorta. (I actually thought I'd get static about the Happy Meal, so proud are we :`)

                                      http://www.tomsdesk.moonfruit.com/
                                      2.5D Trees & Shrubs!

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                                        Gaieus
                                        last edited by 12 Feb 2008, 10:26

                                        Some inventions by Hungarians (not all developed in Hungary - we all know of "brain-draining"...)

                                        • safety matches
                                        • dinamo
                                        • carburator
                                        • soda water
                                        • helicopter
                                        • ball pen
                                        • the basics of modern informatics (computering)
                                        • vitamine C
                                        • the "BASIC" progamming language
                                        • diesel and gas turbines
                                        • the "Zeppelin"
                                        • the nuclear reactor and later - though in "team work" - the atomic &hydrogene bombs (well, not to be very proud - or at least happy - of/with it...)
                                        • the automatic telephone centre
                                        • stereo radio broadcasting
                                        • transformator (among others)
                                        • micro-groove record player
                                        • holography
                                        • and last but not lest: the Rubic cube...

                                        Gai...

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                                          CadFather
                                          last edited by 12 Feb 2008, 10:26

                                          in italy we know the telephone was first 'conceived' by Antonio Meucci..very interesting.. look it up

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