2. USA
“Like mother, like daughter” –I guess we could say.
241 years and some pennies ago, the United States, the number two on our list of countries that have invented the most things in all human history achieved emancipation from motherland England, and has not wasted any time since then. Even though they haven’t been able to catch up with dear ol’ England’s invention rate, they have done an outstanding job in trying to set themselves aside from their parents, and here’s a list of some of the most interesting stuff they’ve come up with in the last 200 years:
Modern Suspension Bridge, Potato chips, Condensed Milk, Machine Gun, Phonograph, Electric Light Bulb, Photographic Film, Skyscraper, Disc Record, Mousetrap, Cotton Candy, Airplane, the electric traffic light, Liquid-Fuel Rocket, Frozen Food, Sun glasses, Chocolate chip cookie, Ruth Wakefield, modern day digital computer, Nylon, Pantyhose, Microwave Oven, Nuclear Bomb, the microwave oven, Credit card, Disposable Diaper, Nuclear Submarine, Integrated circuit, first LASER, Magnetic stripe card, light emitting diodes for lighting and image displays, Compact Disk, Kevlar, Lunar Module, Email, Personal Computer, The first the mobile phone, Space Shuttle, Internet Protocol Suite, operational GPS, DNA computing, CMOS image, Jet Propulsion, computer mouse, Java Script, Mars Rovers, The Torino.