Talk:List of United States inventions

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somebody needs to fix these links, i'm fixing a few, but i'm not doing a good job of it, but it's better than nothing 68.55.186.70 00:35, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

Needs somebody to go through and check as I have found a number of items on this list that incorrectly attribute inventions to americans, when they were infact invented by others. I have deleted those I have found. Also some sources are needed especially for those items without a wiki article. 130.246.132.26 15:15, 20 December 2006 (UTC)


I am a little curious about the following inventions and WHY they are not listed:

  • First Steam-Powered Iron Clad Ship
  • None-lighter than air aircraft flight (aka the airplane -- NOT the hot air baloon)
  • Telephone
  • Vacuum tube
  • Transistor (source of debate -- Lilienfeld or Shockley?)
  • Internet (ARPAnet - DoD) -- yes, it was American and no, I am not talking about the http/html protocol done by Lee.
  • First TCP/IP network
  • Non-lethal Heat Raygun (DoD)

The transistor had a lot of German input. It wouldn't really be accurate to call it "American." Ehinson56 21:14, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

Lilienfeld had applied for three patents early on. However, there is no evidence that he ever created such a device. Yet some stuff I read indicates that he might have had created the device while in he US and Canada at a later time. This seems to be a source of debate at the moment.

I found no evidence that Thomas Blanchard, who invented a kind of lathe in 1818, was from Middlebury, Connecticut. Bradford E. Smith's compilation of vital records of Middlebury, Connecticut, lists no Blanchard among residents in Middlebury, and the United States Census records (<Ancestry.com) list no Blanchard in Middlebury from 1810 to 1930. Instead, he was apparently from Worcester County, Massachusetts (see other Web sites describing Blanchard such as <http://inventors.about.com/cs/inventorsalphabet/a/machine_3.htm> and <http://www.americanprecision.org/hof2004pressrelease.html>. Robraff 05:01, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

this article read like it was copied straight from a badly written and researched did you know book.

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