What things were invented without government help?

by RJ~PWCM~JLA Posted 2012/08/18 00:38:09

Related Topics: Engine, Rocket, Airplane, Coffee, Pictures, Camera, Gasoline, Press, Mass, Elevator, Dollar, Conditioning, Picture, Printer, You didn't build that, Government, Television

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Here's my back-of-the-envelope list. Please add to it!

When it's done, we'll print it out and send it to Mr. You Didn't Build That. On a laser printer. Via FedEx.

(Can't wait for the Libbys to "announce" that someone who invented something on this list once received a government dollar somewhere along the way!)

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Air conditioning

Airplane

Braille

Cotton gin

Electricity generation

Electricity transmission

Elevator

Escalator

Film camera

Gasoline and other petroleum distillates

Gunpowder

Integrated circuit

Internal combustion engine

Kevlar

Laser

Light bulb

Liquid-fueled rocket

Mass production

Morse code

Motion pictures
Mr. Coffee

Nylon

Penicillin

Phonograph

Photographic processes

Printing press

Radio (AM)

Radio (FM)

Roll film

Steam engine

Steel making

Telegraph

Telephone

Telescope

Television

Transistor

Vacuum tube
Vulcanized rubber

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RJ~PWCM~JLA 2012/08/19 02:22:03

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Ahhh, I see the Liberals have found this post!
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Jack Sprat to Htcbm1 2012/08/19 03:45:40

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Well said, thank you.

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zeldamaster17 2012/08/18 16:12:56

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UGH WHEN WILL YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT THE TERM LIBERAL MEANS?!?!?!? Anyway, let's see, the TV was stolen by the government and sold to the germans- Oh, that's a conspiracy? Bleh, whatever...

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kudabux to zeldama... 2012/08/19 01:03:31

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So now you cons rewrite history? The first electromagnetic transmission (TV) was invented and patented by a German. Period. End of story.

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zeldama... to kudabux 2012/08/19 01:34:28

Well if you wanna get technical... Nevermind, we're just not gonna go down the road of discussing Nikola Tesla. That always gets peoples' panties in a bunch when you question that rip off Edison.

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kudabux to zeldama... 2012/08/19 14:39:02

Technical? Truth!

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RG to kudabux 2012/08/19 04:26:11

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Who cares - it wasn't the government!

Wine presses
Olive presses
Arrow heads

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RJ~PWCM... to RG 2012/08/19 12:35:25

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Good ones, thanks! Helped me think of some more:

The winemaking process
The champagne process
The beermaking process
Distillation
Glassmaking
Corks
Agriculture
Glue / adhesives

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RG to RJ~PWCM... 2012/08/19 15:43:00

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Coffee mill
Pepper mill
Salt and Pepper shakers
Needle
Sewing machine
Crochet hook
Knitting needles
Washing machine
Clothes pins
Gas stove
Wood stove
Soap
Spinning wheel
Autoclave
Surgical instraments
Bunson burner
Test tubes
Xray machine
Axe
Shovel
Crow bar
Garden tools
Paper
Ink
Fountain pens
Printing press
Augar
Block and tackle
Rope
Harnesses
Milking machine
Milk Separator
Hair clippers and combs, toothbrush, dental floss, mirror

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RJ: You will need a lot of paper to compile the list. This is a great, fun post you started! Incredible----where was the government------you mean people were self sufficient at one time?
Ice tongs

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RJ~PWCM... to RG 2012/08/19 15:46:00

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Great additions, thanks! And thanks for the compliment!

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RG to RJ~PWCM... 2012/08/19 15:54:03

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You are welcome.

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SW to RG 2012/08/20 12:35:08

Hahah ok Rocks... dirt... um... the wheel.... So what? Even in those times there were smaller city states which helped all of those things. Before that the "government" was the extended family. People found they could do more if they worked together... but all that progress is lost on todays "I did it all by myself on an island in a vacuum..." libatariards.

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Allbiz - PWCM - JLA 2012/08/18 13:26:47

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The wheel.

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RJ~PWCM... to Allbiz ... 2012/08/18 19:24:10

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Yep!

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RENEGAD... to Allbiz ... 2012/08/18 19:27:00

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Great, first al gore now we will have obama saying he invented the car. See that guy had help too, someone built that hammer and chisel,

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Allbiz ... to RENEGAD... 2012/08/18 19:54:32

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He bought those with his welfare check.

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SW to RENEGAD... 2012/08/19 00:14:34

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When did he say that? BTW Al Gore never said he invented the internet. Nor did Obama say people didn't build their own businesses. Funny how all the criticisms from right-wingers tend to involve putting words in peoples mouths.

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Red Branch to SW 2012/08/19 02:44:21

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Oh yes he did,

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SW to Red Branch 2012/08/20 12:35:54

Got a clip or a transcript of him saying that? Didn't think so.

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Jack Sprat to SW 2012/08/19 03:51:28

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No, actually aL Gors only said he didn't say that, and to not let our lying ears make us believe that what we heard, he didn't say, oddly being a known liar, he is easy to believe, like the ocean "rising 22ft" because of MMGW he made $100 million on.

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RENEGAD... to SW 2012/08/19 04:30:56

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Bend it the way you want, Guess you do like the doorknob, Read the rules before you try.

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Barefoo... to SW 2012/08/19 12:58:41

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Funny how y'all turn a deaf ear......... Al Gore "During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet."

Apparently you are a product of his improvements in our educational system.

And yes no matter how obama tries to back spin it and of course I will also acknowledge the help from his little minions like yourself it there...it was both seen and heard...he said it.

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SW to Barefoo... 2012/08/20 12:37:00

Did he say "Invented?" No. He helped with the funding for the original ARPnet. He didn't say he "invented the internet." But conservatives like to twist the words of liberals around because they can't argue with their actual words.

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Jack Sprat to RENEGAD... 2012/08/19 03:49:25

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Oddly of $800 billion to "fix" their bridges, he only let them have $80 billion 40% of which was lost to government red tape. Hey, there's an invention only the Gov could come up with, well them and robbers.

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Jack Sprat to Allbiz ... 2012/08/19 03:47:26

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I presume these are liberal members of government confiscating someone's invention.

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Pedro Doller ~POTL-PWCM~JLA 2012/08/18 07:33:33

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Reading
writing
arithmetic
alphabets
peanut butter
pornography
prostitution
ski jumping
water skiing
first airplane
Oprah Winfrey (I think)
obesity
barbecue
baseball
golf
lawn mower
snow shovel
sun glasses
mouth wash
Chlorine bleach
neck tie
zipper

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RJ~PWCM... to Pedro D... 2012/08/18 10:32:51

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great, thanks!

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SW to Pedro D... 2012/08/20 12:40:15

Reading... actually government has a LOT to do with the standardization of Language which helped reading (which is taught primarily at public schools nowadays). The Oxford English Dictionary is a government funded project and has been for ever. --same with writing.

Arithmitic --really? Public universities and schools never helped out with that ever? hahaha!

Yes also masturbating (which is what is list is really) was invented before government too. So what.

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Red Branch to SW 2012/08/20 14:00:17

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You really are clueless.
The govt did not invent any of those 3. It perpetuates them in schools, locally funded schools, like the school districts, but it did not invent them.

However, applying the same logic to your onanism habit, Clinton's surgeon general advocated masturbation, some state legislatures have introduced legislation that requires teaching kids about oral sex to reduce teen pregnancies.

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bpf 2012/08/18 04:48:34

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A.C. motor would take days to put everything down that was invented without the help of the government

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AL 2012/08/18 03:45:34 (edited)

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LOL! THE GOVERNMENT DIDN'T DO THAT! It was really the TAX PAYERS IN THE PRIVATE SECTOR (THAT FUNDED THE GAVERNMENT) that did everyone of THOSE THINGS INSTEAD

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RJ~PWCM... to AL 2012/08/18 10:33:14

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Yep

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☆GrayBear☆ (Ursus Americanus) 2012/08/18 03:39:20

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I see you put up the short list...... LOL!

Government doesn't invent anything except more ways to separate you from your money and to control what you do.

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AL to ☆GrayBe... 2012/08/18 07:49:13

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How many Green energy Companies has Obama wasted our tax money on now?

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☆GrayBe... to AL 2012/08/18 12:44:07

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We only know about the ones that have failed spectacularly, there's no telling how many others.

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AL to ☆GrayBe... 2012/08/18 19:27:57

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Do you think it odd that all the ones we all know about, gave money to Obama to run for office then as well?

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☆GrayBe... to AL 2012/08/18 20:45:21

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No, not odd at all, it's just the Chicago Way......

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AL to ☆GrayBe... 2012/08/18 20:51:08 (edited)

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You bet! The good old, I'll fill your pockets-If you kick back some to me in return! Only the way Obama did it, it all looks legal at first sight anyway! In other words its very hard to prove in any court of law!

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☆GrayBe... to AL 2012/08/18 20:53:07

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He learned from the best.

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AL to ☆GrayBe... 2012/08/20 19:35:22

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You would think Romney and Ryan would get a clue and start making that waste public about now as well

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☆GrayBe... to AL 2012/08/21 07:35:59

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Yeah, he needs to take a tougher line. I'm waiting for the October surprise, maybe even compliments of Sheriff Joe..... Wouldn't that be killer?!

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