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Originally posted by Joe Sixpack
The two inventors behind Viagra, the anti-impotency drug that has taken the world by storm, are both Englishmen, it emerged today.
Peter Dunn and Albert Wood, both of Sandwich, Kent, are named as the inventors of the process by which sildenafil citrate - the chemical compound that is Viagra - is created.
THE LONDON EVENING STANDARD (ENGLAND), JULY 15, 1998
In 1885, German mechanical engineer, Karl Benz designed and built the world's first practical automobile to be powered by an internal-combustion engine. On January 29, 1886, Benz received the first patent (DRP No. 37435) for a gas-fueled car.
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she's at work at the moment, but one of those viagra guys is my girlfriends cousin, i'm not sure which. that's how i knew.
he got a big rise when he discovered it
john logi baird invented the televison in britain, either a french or german invented the first car (it depends what you call a car)
the first computer and the internet was also discovered/invented in britain and i'm not sure about the rest.