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08-06-2016 , 05:40 PM

#22951

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Electricity (or physics more generally), communication, transportation, biology, chemistry...

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08-06-2016 , 05:44 PM

#22952

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yeah I know he was Italian, I was asking when

Didn't he invent the Ariel Screw (early helicopter) or am I confusing him with Da Vinci?

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08-06-2016 , 05:47 PM

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We should nail down the nationality imo.

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08-06-2016 , 05:49 PM

#22954

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Italian, British, French, German seem like plausible non research nationalities imo

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08-06-2016 , 05:53 PM

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who was christian huygens? i dont know why that name popped into my head but i cant wiki it and it's annoying me

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08-06-2016 , 05:56 PM

#22956

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never heard of him

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08-06-2016 , 05:58 PM

#22957

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Originally Posted by iversonian

who was christian huygens? i dont know why that name popped into my head but i cant wiki it and it's annoying me

Did some stuff with clocks I think

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08-06-2016 , 07:16 PM

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Cricket was invented around that time I think, but you'd have totally sports-fixated to call sport invention a historic event though I guess it was an event in history.

Maybe we need clarification on what is meant by 'historic event'.

I think nationality is a good step but maybe add Poland and Netherlands to that list.

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08-06-2016 , 07:20 PM

#22959

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Was the inventor born in Italy, Great Britain, Germany, France, Poland or The Netherlands?

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08-06-2016 , 07:25 PM

#22960

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0. Historical event
1. Happened earlier than 1900
2. Happened earlier than 1750
3. Happened between 1400 and 1750
4. Did not happen in the 1500s
5. Was not part of a military conflict
6. Happened in Europe
7. Does not involve the birth of someone, the death of someone, marriage of someone or the rise of someone to power
8. Invention or scientific discovery of some kind
9. Did not happen in the 1400s
10. Not in the field of mathematics, astronomy, or optics
11. Invention
12. Invented between 1600-1689
13. Inventor presumably born in Italy, Great Britain, Germany, France, Poland or The Netherlands

NO RESEARCH

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08-06-2016 , 07:27 PM

#22961

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presumably huh

kinda rules out Galileo imo since I'm pretty certain that he was born in Italy

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08-06-2016 , 08:58 PM

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was it wacky inflatable balloon men?

Haha I was going to say this for the last game

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08-06-2016 , 09:01 PM

#22963

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Originally Posted by iversonian

i saw a qi episode about scottish inventions once. haggis and whiskey were not invented there.

This may not be a fact but will be phrased as such:

Whiskey is Irish. Whisky is Scottish.

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08-06-2016 , 09:03 PM

#22964

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pfft

everything is Irish or racist to you

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08-06-2016 , 09:06 PM

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Inventing a sport is an historical event imo.

"Presumably" gives this theory more weight.

But I still think its unlikely and shouldn't be focussed on right now

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08-06-2016 , 09:07 PM

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Originally Posted by xander biscuits

pfft

everything is Irish or racist to you

Racism itt

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08-06-2016 , 09:46 PM

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Originally Posted by rtspurs

This may not be a fact but will be phrased as such:

Whiskey is Irish. Whisky is Scottish.

it's the same stuff. if you two can't get along, that's not my problem.

and the way i heard it was scotland and japan... but that makes less sense.

btw, whiskie was invented in italy.

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08-06-2016 , 09:47 PM

#22968

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thinking asking about technology is very reasonable now. think it's like 50/50 with the last answer.

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08-06-2016 , 09:47 PM

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or it was invented very early in 1600s. trying to think of an inventor you might say that about...

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08-06-2016 , 09:54 PM

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was something invented of which there is a physical specimen you can point to and say, here is a X (as opposed to say a process or some other abstract thing)?

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08-06-2016 , 10:02 PM

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Originally Posted by iversonian

it's the same stuff. if you two can't get along, that's not my problem.

and the way i heard it was scotland and japan... but that makes less sense.

btw, whiskie was invented in italy.

Oh we get along great with the Scots.

Just a pedantic point I guess.

If you want more insight, the Irish language name for whiskey is "Uisce beatha" (pronounced Ishka baha, literally translating to "Water of Life") which is probably the origin of the word whiskey.

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08-06-2016 , 10:10 PM

#22972

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other non-technological stuff might be government processes, literary things, money/finance related?

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08-06-2016 , 10:11 PM

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Originally Posted by iversonian

trying to think of an inventor you might say that about...

How about one not notable enough to have his birthplace listed in wikipedia, or even have his own wikipedia page.

That's how I interpreted it anyway.

I think we should focus on the invention, not the inventor.

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08-06-2016 , 10:14 PM

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thing is, most major technological breakthroughs require you to be teh smart, which means that you're usually famous. that's what's throwing me for a loop and thinking it might not be that.