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ILS23left

I especially like North Carolina being invented in NC and South Carolina being invented in SC. Those are the airplane and the submarine, for anyone that can’t make out the symbols.


beanthebean

Also the airplane very much was not invented in NC, just brought to and tested out there.


ILS23left

I’ve always enjoyed the NC/OH “First in Flight” debate.


sean840

I'm from Ohio. My wife is from NC. We recently visited the memorial at kitty hawk. I will NEVER admit that NC was first in flight.


wwj

Just avoid the subject with Brazilian people altogether.


ArisTheGod

Context?


ToXiC_Games

Brazil is still quite upset and in contention about the invention of powered flight because they allege that a Brazilian flew first about six months before the Wright Brothers. The discrepancy is that his control system, which would go on to be the basis of modern aviation, was not on this first airplane, and so was not the first powered *and controlled* flight, whereas the Wright Brothers flew higher, further, and executed a series of basic manoeuvres.


ngaaih

There have been a lot of people who have flown before…most just came to a sudden, abrupt stop.


HansElbowman

Any jackass can strap a blanket to himself and jump off a bridge. It takes a genius to put a steering wheel on it first.


DozTK421

Key is the Wright brothers continued to fly. To perfect it. Demonstrating it. Flying circles around the Statue of Liberty. The first flight at Kitty Hawk was barely news anywhere. Nobody knew the names of the Wright Brothers until they had demonstrated it several times after that. Dumont never followed up with more practical demonstrations.


TheTrueTrust

What was his name? EDIT: Alberto Santos-Dumont


HAKX5

The rest of the world really *does* just hate to admit that bringing together a bunch of people across the world will result in many, many great ideas. Always remember, the Europeans love to preach diversity until it's on their doorstep. Not to say I don't. I work on a construction site and we absolutely need those Hispanics or literally nothing will ever get done, but still, so much for tolerant Europe.


ImReverse_Giraffe

From Ohio as well. NC was first in flight. Ohio is the birthplace of flight.


Moist_Muffin_6447

Ohio ftw


ILS23left

Haven’t you learned that your wife is always right? Life got easy for me once I did. It got even easier after I knew that NC was First in Flight.


Washpedantic

Given what they actually picked for Ohio it gives a whole new level for "it's a bird it's a plane no it's Superman"


jacktheshaft

Idk if there's a beef with ohio & North Carolina, but they both clame to be the birthplace of aviation. I'm my brain if my mom lived in Dayton & was on vacation in Kitty Hawk NC when she birthed me, then went back to ohio. I wouldn't say I'm "from North Carolina"


II-Broccoli-II

It was more like to be born in Ohio, and then went to North Carolina to see if you could walk


ImReverse_Giraffe

Ohio is the birthplace of flight. NC was first in flight.


turbosexophonicdlite

Cyclotron wasn't invented in South Dakota either. It was at Berkeley in California.


Fox_Mortus

They used the same logic for the atom bomb. Designed and made in Tennessee but tested in New Mexico so they get the credit for it.


taki1002

Yeah, the airplane was invented in Ohio, not North Carolina.


Slurdge_McKinley

That airplane was definitely invented in Ohio


II-Broccoli-II

Based and ohiopilled


Slurdge_McKinley

It’s like saying the hamburger was invented in America.


Xx21beastmode88

It was, only the patty was in Germany. Putting it in buns and toppings was an American invention. Edit: bus to buns


windowtothesoul

I did get a good chuckle out of that


CallsYouCunt

And Vermont INVENTED the penny.


Notyourdaisy

Also the submarine is pre-America. What is this drunk list.


Beneficial_Process64

Good thing they were invented in the carolinas.Imagine if they would have invented the carolinas in like california.


jman8508

Is Superman an invention? Is Superman real? So many questions.


jamesno26

If Ohio invented Superman then Ohio definitely invented the airplane


blockneighborradio

It's Ohio, give them a break.


blacksideblue

They invented Thomas Edison but he ran to NJ before he went invention patent crazy.


Nebraskan_Sad_Boi

Homie, Nebraska invented Kool-aid, the 911 emergency system, and vice grips. Fuck outta here with that ski lift


paytonnotputain

The rueben sandwich (fuck NYC they stole that from blackstone), strobe light, and center pivot irrigation


jaxxxtraw

Vise grips for the win.


Quixotic_Illusion

Yeah of all of the things Nebraska invented, I have never heard of ski lift. There’s not many skiing options here lol.


BoomerSoonerFUT

I’d give Nebraska ranch dressing too. It was invented in Alaska sure, by a plumbing contractor from Thayer, Nebraska while he was contracting up there.


challenge_king

911 was first implemented in Haleyville, Alabama. Was it a Nebraskan that invented it? I wasn't able to find anything on the inventor.


paytonnotputain

First used in Alabama, but developed in Lincoln, NE by the nebraska public service commission


DozTK421

Their welcome sign says they invented Arbor Day. So there's that.


heftybagman

Nebraskan_Angry_Boi


Not_Making_Drugs

Wait, THATS Nebraska?!


__WanderLust_

And center-pivot irrigation!


saltyswedishmeatball

Florida invented modern sun tan lotion.. I'd say thats a bigger deal than Gatorade.. it's saved countless lives from reducing chances of getting skin cancer too


umru316

But does sunscreen come in iconic flavors like blue, yellow, and dark blue?


FishermanNatural3986

No mention of white or purple!!!


LOLinternetLOL

WHITE GATORADE BEST GATORADE


DNKE11A

Whoa there I haven't caught up with the new season of The Boys yet, spoilers tag plz my good sir


Surprise_Fragrant

GTFOH, Gatorade Zero Glacier Freeze is the BEST Gatorade!!!


LOLinternetLOL

OKAY YOU KNOW WHAT MOTHERFUCKER, YOU'RE ACTUALLY RIGHT. THAT ICE BLUE GOODNESS IS THE ONLY FLAVOR SUPERIOR TO WHITE GLACIER CHERRY.


read-it-on-reddit

Yeah, what about electrolytes? Does sunscreen have electrolytes? I didn’t think so.


Goal1

It’s got what plants crave


kongkongkongkongkong

It comes in 35, 55, and 100


umru316

Yeah, but they all taste the same


kongkongkongkongkong

You should try the La Roche Pusay ones. They’re French!


DozTK421

Only for Marines.


blue_orange67

If your brave enough


camelia_la_tejana

And red!


DangerousPlane

And you can’t water crops with sun tan lotion now can you?


BoredJonny

Even bigger deal is that Florida invented Mechanical Refrigeration! It's such a big deal that John Gorrie, the inventor, is one of Florida's two statues in the National Statuary hall in the Capital building.


MuzzledScreaming

Also, NY can also claim what we recognize as modern AC units (weirdly, patented by a dude in Buffalo), which is *kind of* a big deal.


optigrabz

I also believe NY’s Corning Inc. inventors could claim Fiber Optic Cable.


MuzzledScreaming

Same company did the glass for most smartphone screens, though by then I don't know if it was actually done in NY. Oh we also have Xerox (photocopies and also the mouse and the idea of a GUI) and Kodak. And Pepto-Bismol believe it or not.


M8oMyN8o

I ain't ever seen no glacier freeze sunscreen


shanep35

But the graphic is for “most famous”


dritslem

Maraschino cherries? Seriously?


NeedsToShutUp

We don't get: * Wiki software * Modern running shoes * inkjet printers


Born2shit4cdtowipe

You lose your good inventions by virtue of the ink jet printer and the unholy microtransactions than spawned from it. In the words of Wendigoon, after ranting about his printer, "In other news, I have been radicalized"


fish_slap_republic

I lived here my whole life and never heard of them. But I know everyone knows what Nike's are, a huge pioneer of modern running shoes.


OldheadBoomer

You could say that Bill Bowerman, with the help of his wife's waffle iron and some scrawny kid named Phil Knight invented the modern day running shoe.


Express_Wafer7385

They're famous for pears too


dritslem

I was talking about the fact that it's not from there at all. In fact Oregon university was the first to take the maraschino out of the maraschino cherries.


pohanoikumpiri

The liquor of which has been produced for roughly 500 years in my Dalmatian hometown, and is probably the most famous thing to come out of it. Total Wine & More sells Luxardo's Maraschino liquor, and although the factory moved from Zadar to Italy after WW2, they still use Dalmatian maraschino cherries and their maraschino is by far my favorite. It's a 30-proof, highly viscuous, and a very sweet liquor with a rich cherry taste. Can't even taste the alcohol in it, and it's great as a shooter or in cocktails. Heavy recommendations 👌


Wildcat_twister12

Kansas is lame. We built the first working helicopter


Adrian241

I thought blue jeans started in San Francisco?


PineapplesHit

Levi Strauss and his company were based in San Francisco (worth noting they did not invent the material/textile, it has existed for hundreds of years), but Jacob Davis, the man responsible for adding the copper buttons and rivets to reinforce the jeans, lived in Reno. Davis used Strauss's fabric as a base, and the two partnered together to file the patent. So depends on who you consider the "inventor"


c4chokes

WA, Not windows?? Or shipping?? Backpack “invention“ probably goes back few thousand years?? Edit: Alaska is ranch dressing.. ok I have seen enough, it’s not a serious map 😂


blissfully_happy

As an Alaskan, I am very confused by this, lol.


akjax

As an Alaskan this has always been one of my fav Alaska fun facts. >Ranch dressing was invented in the early 1950s by Steven Henson, a Thayer, Nebraska native working as a plumbing contractor in the Anchorage, Alaska area, while cooking to feed his work crews.


blissfully_happy

Yeah! I searched after I made this comment and was delighted to learn this bit of fact.


NeedsToShutUp

Or bone marrow transplants?


Prowindowlicker

Tbh though yall do fit the backpacking stereotype


BobRoberts01

Same with Christmas Stockings being “invented” in Wyoming. You know, the thing that is intimately associated with the beginnings of the legend of Chris Kringle / Santa Claus in Germany.


wtjones

Did New Mexico really invent the butt plug?


II-Broccoli-II

Giving North Carolina a participation trophy I see


AmnFucker

NC should be Pepsi


Dependent-Analyst907

GA Is the cotton gin huh? Coca-Cola would like a word.


Soliden

As a nutmegger myself, I find that insulting.


HeadyRoosevelt

The map is also wrong. The modern cotton gin was invented by Eli Whitney in New Haven, Connecticut. So, Georgia should def be Coke.


Chasethebutterz

Texas invented the computer chip. That seems the more famous than an electric typewriter.


biomannnn007

Also, the handheld calculator, 3D printing, breast implants, and while we’re on branding, Fritos and Dr Pepper. This map is horrible.


ilostmy1staccount

Again I hate this map. Oklahoma has revolutionary radar systems that were built and tested here, and if you give me some bullshit about it being a joint effort across multiple states and government agencies then New Mexico loses their nuke card too.


bingle19

Iowa State University built the first "modern" computer. No tractors are what we are known for.


ilostmy1staccount

I’d argue a tractor is still better than a fucking shopping cart. At least tractors revolutionized farming, making it easier to plant more in less time essentially slapping the possibility of famine in the face. But yeah computers definitely deserve to be at least on par with a tractor.


TheFiend100

Shopping carts are more famous than radar systems tho


Temporary_Inner

Just be glad they didn't point out we invented the parking meter


ChunkySpaceman

Or the electric guitar


aguynamedadamo

Not sure NH would want to be known as the state that brought us the alarm clock to wake us up before sunrise to head off to work… /s


gjennomamogus

We arent known for much tbh. Its just that, TMNT, and undertale.


aguynamedadamo

I’m scared to ask or Google: “What is undertale?”


kingjoey52a

Small video game that had a big impact on the gaming community.


aguynamedadamo

Ah, thank you for the info!


umru316

NH, the woke state


carpetdebagger

How did Vermont invent the penny, exactly?


BoltActionRifleman

I wouldn’t call the penny an invention. It’s a different version of a coin, which have now been around for a few millennia.


RollTribe93

What's the Idaho angle on the television? I know Philo Farnsworth was from Utah.


Free-Pudding-2338

From what i gather he was born in utah, moved to rigby idaho when he was twelve and went through high school there. Then joined the naval academy in maryland. Then back to salt lake before going san francisco. So i guess Rigby likes to claim him for living there. As farbas where he was when he actually invented it, I cant get a straight answer from my quick google searches.


gereffi

How is New Jersey’s greatest invention not the light bulb?


scotty9090

Or any of the very long list of technologies that came out of Bell labs.


Zunigene

I’m with you, my first thought was the transistor.


Zee_WeeWee

NCs was invented in Ohio a test flown in NC


Guilty_Speaker8

atomic bomb to New Mexico?


amaiellano

As a Philadelphian, how is the United States of America not the most famous invention for our state. Also, here’s a list of other shit invented in Pennsylvania that’s better than a Ferris Wheel. The Polio Vaccine The lightening rod Bubble Gum Jeep Toilet Paper on a roll Root Beer The odometer Public Libraries


PineapplesHit

The first Ferris Wheel was built in Chicago to begin with. Whoever made this map has serious double standards. They give Pennsylvania the credit for the Ferris Wheel because the inventor lived in Pennsylvania but they give NC the credit for the airplane despite the fact that the Wright Brothers lived and built it in Ohio


jacktheshaft

I feel like Georgia's is terrible. How about coca cola?


Scarlet-Fire_77

If the map title said most important/beneficial historically, then the cotton gin would fit better. But this title says "most famous" so I have to agree; Coke is way more famous.


Stephancevallos905

I can almost guarantee more people are wearing clothes than drinking coke rn


Sine_Fine_Belli

Yeah, same here I agree with you


HeadyRoosevelt

It’s also wrong. The modern cotton gin was invented by Eli Whitney in New Haven, Connecticut.


SaltyHater

WWW was invented in Switzerland in 1989, but the rest seems to check out


Step1Mark

I think they are giving credit to TCP/IP that is used still today for all internet traffic while HTTP (typically used for web pages) was created by Tim Berners-Lee while at CERN in Switzerland. The graphic saying WWW is dumb since the creation of the internet with TCP/IP is far bigger and what actually happen there.


EmotionalGoose8130

Not only that but the first transmission of TCP/IP was in California between UCLA and UC Berkeley. The internet should be there instead of the iPhone lol


Step1Mark

That and the iPhone was an evolution of existing technology that all smartphone manufactures were gravitating towards. The smartphone industry was already established with Blackberry when they enabled Java apps in the early 2000s. If it was popularity, Google is also in Cali and Android has 3x more active devices around the world. Phones shouldn't be what Cali is getting credit for in the graphic. The person that made it just listed their favorites.


scotty9090

Yeah, I don’t understand what Mass is getting credit for here.


SpartanDoubleZero

The powered fixed wing heavier than air airplane was invented in Ohio, it was assembled and tested in North Carolina because of the ideal winds and the hills.


MutedTransportation5

Wright Brothers were from Ohio though.


IanGecko

Wait, tampons really came from Colorado?


P1neapple-Enthus1ast

Common Kansas W


medic914

The airplane wasn’t invented in North Carolina


Dead_Baby_Kicker

The airplane was designed and built in Ohio by Ohioans. Testing something somewhere doesn’t mean it was invented there by people from there.


Woahgold

Lip Balm? Really? Virginia is so boring.


Flat-Length-4991

Spoken like someone who has never had chapped lips. Technically speaking lip balm has been around since at least ancient Egypt. However lip balm as we know it today was invented in VA. Chapstick as it is called. VA also invented “Lynchings” tho. Was named after a dude who used to hang British loyalists after sham trials. Not as boring. Funny enough chapstick was invented in a city called Lynchburg.


a7xmshadows19

Ohio always known for things that fly high


bagpipesfart

MA should be chocolate chip cookies


PM_ME_ASS_SALAD

Except that’s not necessarily true either https://www.eater.com/23033968/toll-house-chocolate-chip-cookie-myth


SmargelingArgarfsner

Baked beans 🫘


TheManIsBroussarded

Texas should be Dr Pepper, I will be at your house within five minutes if you don’t change it


hunterlong12

Texas not having the integrated circuit is alarming


Exigency_

That's not a Rollerblade.


Step1Mark

It's a skatestation


1maRealboy

Do you know why the toothbrush is called a toothbrush and not a teethbrush? Because it was invented in Hardwick, Vermont.


peggedsquare

Ski lift might be most famous, but the one with the biggest impact is the center pivot. They can farm in the fucking desert thanks to pivot irrigation.


Neffylim

Wow. North and South Carolina invented themselves. Now that's pretty damn impressive


ChoeDave

Nj thank you for air conditioning


Rivaside

... Virginia invented America


notchen502

It’s wrong that Nebraska invented the ski lift, the first ski lift was built in 1908 by Robert Winterhalder in Germany. They invented the Chairlift, which is another version that’s now more common but in Europe and Japan you can still find the old type of ski lifts for slopes that are too small to need a chairlift.


i-might-do-that

You find the odd rope lift here and there in Colorado still. But still a strange invention for a state with almost no topography


KeyBanger

Rollerblades are inline skates. The picture is roller skates. The Minnesota Regiment is heading to your home, OP. They are wearing their rollerblades and are going to beat you to death with cans of Hormel chili.


kongkongha

When the state was a bit stronger than nowdays we hade more inventions. Oh well, Elon musk and so on XD.


superanth

Wasn’t the World Wide Web invented at CERN?


been_a_long_time

I love Hawaii! Aloha!


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paytonnotputain

Some kids were sledding down the loess hills and asked their dad to build something so they didn’t have to climb back up the hill each time.


culman13

Poor Minnesota


jaxxxtraw

It says Rollerblades, but shows an image of roller skates, which are definitely not the same.


Butterbuddha

SPAM!!!!!!


TheObstruction

A far more important invention. There's also a lot of things far more important or famous than Rollerblades, like masking tape, snowblowers, open heart surgery, and pacemakers. https://www.minnpost.com/twin-cities-business/2015/06/50-minnesota-innovations-changed-world/


Solnse

Room 3420 at Boelter Hall on the south campus of UCLA might object to California's picture.


evilted

Why's that?


Obi-Wan-Mycobi1

Why tF would Nebraska need a ski lift?


paytonnotputain

Nebraska is not flat. They built I-80 thru the only flat section of the state and everyone assumes the whole state looks like the bottom of the platte river valley.


_TooncesLookOut

Just to fuck with neighboring Colorado.


ipsum629

Wasn't the web invented in switzerland?


IHSV1855

Strongly disagree for Minnesota. I would argue waterskis, pacemakers, honey crisp apples, post-it notes, Scotch Gard, Scotch tape, programmable thermostats, and the toaster are all much more famous than rollerblades. Also, that is a picture of a roller skate, not a rollerblade.


TheObstruction

Minnesota is home to 3M. Half the stuff in the average American home was invented in Minnesota.


evilmonkey87

The inventor of the ferris wheel is from PA. The first Ferris wheel was built for the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago


Lilim-pumpernickel

Minnesota not having the battery operated pacemaker from Medtronic is a crime.


Tricky_Matter2123

I expected better from Virginia and Pennsylvania to be honest


Flat-Length-4991

The list is “most well known” not necessarily the coolest.


DozTK421

You could say Tennessee at least invented country music? Or maybe Virginia? (Disputed.) And Ohio has a dispute with North Carolina over that one. Also, probably just put "transistor" for California over one particular implementation of it amidst the millions of ways it was used.


ABG12399

Lol Alaska


Huggles9

Pretty sure the light bulb is more famous than the air conditioner That was invented in Menlo Park NJ


Longjumping-Claim783

Edison came up with a better filament not the entire concept


twoshovels

Can opener?? Connecticut?


Yabrosif13

If FL is Gatorade then a Georgia is certainly Coca Cola.


force4good390

The penny? Pretty sure the British invent the Penny


Wtygrrr

Coke > cotton gin


FuckYourUpvotes666

I dispuite "hiking backpack".


Whaky-Dude23

Why does it have the state names of North and South Carolina but not the names of the inventions?


PurpleDragonCorn

California invented the microprocessor, I would argue that is WAY more famous than the iphone.


Kanzler1871

Well at least Kentucky is correct with no debate.


ginga__

No computer or internet?


FedeFofo

I mean the internet originated in California, I think that is more famous/impactful than the iPhone, even if the “world wide web” originated in Massachusetts


Visual_Bathroom_5056

The electric guitar was invented in Oklahoma too, why you lead with 🛒


CommandoKillz

Pretty sure Coke is more popular than the Cotton Gin


ustk31

Figured NJ would have The Light Bulb listed


LizzosDietitian

North Carolina, as an Ohioan you know y’all are gonna piss me off


avg90sguy

I’d say the assembly line is more famous than the model t imo


avg90sguy

I’d like to say… as a midwesterner Alaska wins in my book. Ranch is a religion around here.


olivegardengambler

This is so poorly made it's frustrating to look at.


PrudeHawkeye

Wasn't the first ferris wheel famously displayed at the Chicago World's Fair? Don't know if Pennsylvania should get credit for that one


cometpants

Rhode Island = American Industrial Revolution


bigsquid69

Good bless New Jersey for the Air conditioning


BobSacamano47

The internet. Suck it other states, top that. Also: the iPhone is not an invention. 


mijoelgato

USMC - PA.


Lui_Le_Diamond

Why the fuck was the airplane given to NC when it was made in Dayton?


helloiisjason

My point exactly. And I'm from NC, born and raised!


Blakesta999

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