COUNTRIES INVENTIONS
Added on: 22nd Jan 2016
GLASSES (ITALY)
All the way from Emperor Nero of Rome to the mid 1200’s when they
began to resemble modern eyewear, glasses have been a proud
invention of Italy/Rome.
TOILET PAPER (CHINA)
The first documented use of toilet paper dates back to
The 6th century in China.
KEROSENE LAMP (POLAND)
Modern kerosene lamps were first constructed in 1853 by
Polish inventor Ignacy Łukasiewicz.
VOLKSWAGEN BEETLE (GERMANY)
Volkswagen Beetles were developed by Hitler because he wanted
to manufacture a cheap, affordable car for his roadways.
ELECTRIC MOTOR (HUNGARY)
Apart from early electrostatic devices created by Scottish monks,
the experiments of Hungarian physicist Ányos Jedlik with
electromagnetic coils led to the first modern electric motors.
FILM (FRANCE)
While you can thank Canada for the big screen, you can thank
France for the movie itself. The Lumière brothers were the
first filmmakers in history.
POSTAL CODES (UKRAINE)
Although cities like London were indeed divided as early as the
mid 1800’s, the idea of extending these divisions to rural areas
wasn’t fully realized until its implementation in the Ukrainian
Soviet Socialist Republic in 1932.
SPEEDOMETER (CROATIA)
You can thank Croatian Josip Belušić for the fact that you know
how fast you are going.
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