1) Invented the automobile

France : Nicolas Joseph Cugnot in 1769
(first self-powered road vehicles using steam
engines)

First combustion engine designed by Dutch 
physicist, Christian Huygens

First internal combustion engine designed and
built : Francois Isaac de Rivaz (Swiss)

First practical automobile designed and built
by Karl Benz (Germany)

2) Invented Aircraft

1799 : Sir George Cayley invented the concept of 
the fixed-wing aircraft (England).

1903 : Wright Brothers, First manned, powered
heavy-than-air flight (12 sec). (USA)
(But perhaps it was : Richard Pearse of New 
Zealand. Lot of controversy on that subject)

3) Invented Submarines

First plans draw in 1578 by a British 
mathematician.

First submarine built in 1620 by a Dutch inventor 
: Cornelius van Drebbel

4) Invented Television, Radar, Infrared, Radio

Watson-Watt was the Scottish physicist who 
developed the radar locating of aircraft in 
England. Radar was patented (British patent) in 
April, 1935

Guglielmo Marconi, Italien, first wireless 
telegraphy patent in England in 1896. Then Telsa
get US patent in 1900 just before Marconi.
December 12, 1901, Marconi for the first time 
transmitted and received signals across the 
Atlantic Ocean.

You can't invent "infrared" : they simply are...

5) Discovered ELECTRICITY (Ben Franklin anyone?)

Actualy Franklin only proved that static 
electricity and lightening are the same :
"However, the experiment did not make Franklin the 
discoverer of electricity.

The ancient Greeks knew about electricity. Thales 
of Miletus, who died around 546 B.C., discovered 
that static electricity could be made by rubbing 
amber with wool. The word "electron" originated in 
a Greek word for amber.

Scientists in Europe experimented with electricity 
long before Franklin."

It was Alessandro Volta in 1800 who made the first 
battery. (Italy)

6) Invented ANIMATION

Paul Roget (France)in 1828 invented the 
thaumatrope

7) Discovered Penecillin

Alexander Fleming (Scotland)

Development of first vaccines : Louis Pasteur

9) Invented Computers

Pascal's adding machine
Fondamental concept : Charles Babbage (England)
The "Colosus" was built in 1943 in England 
(near-computer). USA built a comparable calculator 
only in 1946.
First programming langugage : Konrad Zuse 
(Germany)

Concept of first mordern computer and computer 
science : Alan Turing (England)

>  and the INTERNET! 

Internet was not really invented : it's the result 
of several factors : networking (connecting 2 
computers together), the actualy network protocol 
used for internet (TCP/IP), the actual network 
application used on internet (SMTP, FTP, HTTP,...)

While TCP/IP was developed in USA and the first
base of the current internet started there 
(ARPANET/milnet), current protocols were developed 
by various people from all around the world.
For example, the HTTP/HTML (or if you prefere, the 
web) were created at the CERN (Europeen nuclear 
research center) in Geneva.


Hope you find all this informative...

Cheers,
Yann Stettler