See what technological inventions the US has brought to mankind in just over 100 years

The following products or technologies were invented by Americans:

Communications:

Telephones, cell phones, the Internet, geosynchronous satellite transmissions, the Global Positioning System (GPS)

(All of the means of communication that we use today were invented in the United States)

Electrical appliances:

Televisions, radios, tape recorders, VCRs. Microwave ovens, washing machines, air conditioners, refrigerators

(In a word: basically all the electrical appliances in your house were invented by Americans)

Electronics:

Transistors, semiconductor devices, integrated circuits, chips.

(In short, almost everything inside this computer you're using right now is an American invention)

Software:

Operating systems, computer languages, compilers, all kinds of applications, games....

(like windows, and browsers you are using now)

Transportation:

4-wheelers, airplanes, liquid rockets, space shuttles, moon landings, landings on mars, cosmic exploration

Optical photocopying:

Film, video cameras, lasers, modern typesetting and printing, digital cameras, photocopiers

Petrochemicals:

Modern petrochemicals, plastics, nylon, non-stick cookware,...

Petrochemicals.

Energy:

Generators, transmission grids, atomic energy....

Energy, and now the HOTTEST: shale gas development

Invented by Americans, leading the world in technology and maturity.

The Internet, computers, cell phones, electric lights, telephones, telegraphs, phonographs, televisions, color televisions, generators, airplanes, washing machines, air conditioners, automobiles, razors, motion pictures, steam engines, radar, jukeboxes, color film, cortisone, nylons, toothbrushes, napalm, microwave ovens, contact lenses, credit cards, the anti-measles vaccine, the oral contraceptive pill, and the polio vaccine, Color videotape, cassette tape, anti-hepatitis vaccine, triangular glider, color copier, creation of genetic engineering, non-slip tires, first blood transfusion, construction of the first skyscraper, home refrigerator, first traffic light, color film, first successful hybridization of maize, stereo technology, eraser, bulldozer, radio FM, phonograph, toaster, color film, pocket book, atomic bomb, discovery of plutonium, mainframe computers, synchrotrons, electronics, panoramic movies, widescreen films, invention of environmentalism, superconductivity, first genetic surgery, Hubble Space Telescope, vacuum tubes, radios, pacemakers, lasers, industrial robots, quark models, plate tectonics, intelligent robots, general-purpose microprocessors, the first experimental fiber-optic communication system, the first small video game console, first generation of cordless telephone system, first Internet in the US Pentagon, television and telephone, world's first experimental meteorological satellite, world's first hydrogen bomb, model of the double-helix structure of DNA, the genetic material for the inheritance of life, digital television set developed by the US, world's first multimedia computer, The world wide web (World Wide Web) based on the Internet, photocopiers, plastics, radio broadcasting, etc.