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Originally posted by JeremySF
Okay, I'm jumping on the bandwagon and I'm boycotting American products! But, I don't think I'll stop there. If you're a man of your word, you should boycott EVERYTHING American.
So, what else I'm going to boycott besides McDonald's (which is easy since I don't eat there anyway)?
Let's see....
telephones
lightbulbs
computers
The Internet
cars
safety airbags
air conditioning
film
Viagra
Calculaters
Pacemaker (oh, wait, that's Canadian)
Mobile phones
Blue Jeans
Coca-cola
Credit cards
TV
Well, shit, that's a start. Can anyone help me add to my list?
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Thomas Alva Edison patented the light bulb in 1879 (three years after the telephone), but it was not a new invention. Various working versions of the lightbulb had been around for a good 50 years. A British inventor named Joseph Swan unveiled a carbon filament light bulb in New Castle, England, a full ten years before Edison's patent was issued.
Several sites in the Yahoo! Alexander Graham Bell category claim that the clever Scotsman invented the "electrical speech machine," or the telephone, in 1876. But he certainly benefited from the research of others before him, including a German inventor named Phillip Reis, who worked on early prototypes in the 1860s. But here's the difference -- Bell's phone actually worked.
Mobile phone was invented by Canadian Martin Cooper.
First computer invented by Englishman Charles Babbage.