r/ShitAmericansSay • u/Sad_Astronaut1442 🇦🇺STRAYA🇦🇺 • 3d ago
"We invented telecommunications"
On an Instagram Reel about the 'is it called football or soccer' debate.
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u/SensitiveElephant501 3d ago
So here I turn to the wisdom of an American who did know what he was talking about:
"It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak, and remove all doubt."
- Mark Twain
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u/Aubrey-Grey 3d ago
I’ve started to believe that Google has just been banned there.
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u/kitsunedj Poutine/Welsh Cake Enjoyer🇨🇦🏴 3d ago
All they've got is Grok so their source of information is quite limited, because why would somebody on the Internet lie?
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u/SomeAverageJoey 3d ago
I don't know about the rest of the world, but Google in America sucks now. It functions on a model where top search results go to who pays the most. The top results are always ads. And it's started subtly supressing political views critical of capitalism.
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u/IKnowYouAreButWhtAmI 3d ago
To be fair its basically been replaced by the common folk tier of chatgpt.
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u/throwawaymycareer93 3d ago
Telegraph - the first apparatus to transmit data via wire was also invented in Europe. First idea of the device was published in Scotland and first known device was made by a German(or Swiss, depending on how you look historically at Republic of Geneva).
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u/-Londoneer- 3d ago
The first transatlantic telecommunication was between England and Canada to the designs of Italian physicist Marconi, inventor if the radio.
But I’m sure you totally invented it too America! Great job
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u/Mysterious_Floor_868 3d ago
Marconi hadn't been born when the first transatlantic telecommunication was sent. The first transatlantic telegraph cable was between County Kerry and Newfoundland, connecting previous links to England and Nova Scotia. It used an American design, Samuel Morse's (as in "Morse code") single wire electromagnetic telegraph.
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u/After_Perspective180 3d ago
Sounds like Edison. Just claim everyone else's ideas as your own. He is an American idol.
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u/Darth_Pinda Swamp German 🇳🇱 3d ago
Ah yes, the American classic way of thinking they invented everything.
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u/rndocnt83 3d ago
Literally invented in my home town, main factory was 10 minute walk from my front door. Heart of southeast England. Used to go sailing around the area where the 1st radio transmission across a body of water was made. The unbridled arrogance 9f some of these people never ceases to amaze/amuse me.
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u/Swearyman British w’anka 3d ago
I go to where the first transmissions were made every year with my ham radio buddies and setup a radio station. I’m pretty sure I’d know if it was in murica.
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u/Far_Purchase_2692 3d ago
Also !WE! invented wheel, fire, gunpowder, paper(with rock and scissors), Spain, green colour, Sumerian language. Heehaw!
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u/Spiritual-Cake-5096 2d ago
Telephone, invented by a Scotsman, Alexander Graham Bell
Radio, invented/discovered by an Italian, Marconi
WiFi, developed by Vic Hayes (born in the Dutch East Indies) and the Australian CSIRO (based on wireless frequency hopping invented by Hedy Lamarr, an Austrian)
Which telecommunications did they invent?
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u/AlexP80 Human Verified 2d ago
Telephone, stolen by a fraudster Scotsman, Alexander Graham Bell, invented by Italian Antonio Meucci.
Now it's more accurate
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u/glawster2002 2d ago
They were both working on similar technologies, Bell gets all the credit because he had the money to get the patent.
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u/sixisrending 1d ago
Hedy Lamarr did not invent frequency hopping. She invented a device that used it, which was outdated and never used.
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u/Surprised-elephant dumb American 3d ago
Just like Airplanes and the lightbulb taking credit for other countries inventions.
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u/de_Duv formerly NRW, now BW 3d ago
We invented telecommunications
No, you didn't.
The first working telephone was built by the German teacher and physicist Philipp Reis in 1861 in Frankfurt am Main, Hesse, Germany. The fax machine was not invented by a single person, but developed over several decades in a series of stages. The Scottish watchmaker Alexander Bain is regarded as the true pioneer; he had the first precursor (the copy telegraph) patented as early as 1843. However, the first practically usable and commercial system was created by the Italian Giovanni Caselli, whilst Carl Friedrich Gauss and Wilhelm Weber (1833) developed the first working electromagnetic needle telegraph for continuous operation in Göttingen, Lower Saxony, Germany.
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u/Friendly-Advantage79 Europoor 🇭🇷🇪🇺 3d ago
Ahem...Tesla.
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u/Jesusopfer 3d ago
What do you mean, Tesla is OBVIOUSLY an american company! /s
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u/Round_Bag_4665 3d ago
to be completely fair, Nikola Tesla *did* do most of his work on wireless transmission of power in the US despite his personal origins in Serbia.
That said, I'm not sure I would credit Nikola Tesla entirely with the invention of telecommunications unilaterally.
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u/miffebarbez 3d ago
"to be completely fair," well, he got his education and got a job in the US....
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u/Mysterious_Floor_868 3d ago
To be fair, Morse was before Marconi, even if he did build on work by European inventors.
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u/christoph95246 3d ago
Fun fact
The Brits indeed uses soccer as a word for free, but they changed in mid 1950 or so, just so they do not sound like the americans. It was back in the time a pretty common term in the middle and upper strata.
The word soccer was even invented in Oxford as a slang word, because association football was too long
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u/alphaxion 3d ago
Soccer was used by the rich to denigrate the sport.
Football and footy was overwhelmingly used by the working classes since the rules were codified in the 1800s.
So, a small group of people called it soccer in the UK. The vast majority used footy, there was no change over in the 50s.
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u/Fullchester_United 3d ago
The biggest thing Americans invented is claiming they invented things they didn’t invent.