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12-05-2006, 12:58 AM
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What has Japan invented?
There are many inventions that are credited to China like gun powder, ink, printing press, porcelain...; Egyptians for mathematics and alphabet; Americans with cars, airplanes and everything else. Is there an invention that is of Japanese origin?
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12-05-2006, 01:11 AM
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12-05-2006, 01:53 AM
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Don't think Americans invented the car... I think the Japanese invented the CD though.. and of course they invented pretty much everything Japanese too! (sushi, samurai, ninja, etc..)
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12-05-2006, 03:50 AM
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I was thinking about things that are not really cultural but major inventions that the world at large uses today. Electricity, telephone, mathematics, computers, airplanes, cars... Anyway, no big deal, I was just curious.
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12-05-2006, 04:17 AM
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I think it was the Romans who invented concrete, so they can't take credit for that... apart from that I have absolutely no idea.
I recall someone saying, perhaps it was over on this board, that the West has always been very good at fundamental physics, while Japan is good at the applied variety... example: the basic principle of the LCD was invented by a Frenchman in the 1900s, but it was the Japanese who brought LCD to the masses in the form of display units you can buy at Dixons.
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12-05-2006, 05:35 AM
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12-05-2006, 08:09 AM
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ご支援あざま〜す
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12-05-2006, 08:10 AM
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Well, of course you've heard of the one and only Doctor Nakamatsu:
who claims to have invented some 2300+ contraptions et al including the now virtually useless floppy disk!
(And, you just gotta love that bowtie! ;O)
Last edited by Rob Pongi : 12-05-2006 at 09:47 AM.
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12-05-2006, 10:38 AM
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Yellow taxis!
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12-05-2006, 10:42 AM
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A serious recent example would be the blue LED. |
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