European Reacts: The Best Invention From Each US State

[@european-reacts]

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[@tammycenter8757]

Bourbon was invented in Kentucky but it is not the best invention from here. The Gas Mask was invented in Kentucky. This should have been what the guy put on the list. Also the cheeseburger was actually invented in Kentucky but the restaurant did not patent the idea. A guy from Colorado ate at the place and then went home and opened his own place where he started selling cheese burgers and filed for a copywrite on the recipe. It was granted to him. He stole the idea and this was proven many years ago when a hand written recipe in the restaurant's recipe book from Kentucky was shown to predate the Colorado Restaurant by 10 years.

[@MelanieCreates]

I love your accent.

[@I_want_White_Cheddar_Popcorn]

​@@tammycenter8757and for WV, Mothers Day is also a big thing, and WV made it

[@tricitymorte1]

You have no idea how popular Ranch dressing is in the US if you're not impressed that it was invented in Alaska. People use it on everything: salads, sandwiches, dips, etc. Hidden Valley is still one of the most popular brands.

[@hanklewis769]

amen

[@ms7953]

​@@hanklewis769 EVERYTHING!

[@sanguinembwun6475]

I will admit I had to look up Portuguese cooking for this comparison. But ranch in the us is as popular as piri piri sauce apparently is in Portugal! It’s served in pretty much every restaurant and with pretty much every dish! I’m not sure if piri piri sauce is actually that popular in Portugal but it’s the closest thing I could find on the internet!

[@richneedre48]

😂😂OMG he's right my sister keeps some in her pocket book!😂✌️✌️

[@richneedre48]

​@sanguinembwun6475 SUPER large Portuguese population. In my area of Boston MA. some of my Ju jitsu instructors came from Brazil recently...and Portuguese feasts (st.anthony I believe) every summer in my area ...and yes I LOVE Portuguese food!!

[@OddBallPerformance]

DaVinci was the first to conceptualize a helicopter-like flying machine (air screw) but he never actually built a machine that could fly. He was also probably not the only person to have a vision of said concept. The actual machine, the Helicopter, was invented in the U.S.

[@The_Viscount]

Anyone can come up with an idea. Making it work is another matter.

[@vidpie]

Texas, handheld calculator = Texas Instruments "Jack St. Clair Kilby was an American electrical engineer who took part, along with Robert Noyce of Fairchild Semiconductor, in the realization of the first integrated circuit while working at Texas Instruments (TI) in 1958. Kilby was also the co-inventor of the handheld calculator..." In other words, two companies, one in Texas and one in California, working independently, came up with the integrated circuit.

[@paulbooth8516]

Texas Instruments; is tied into the modern, Taiwan chip industry

[@stevesnow315]

Jack Kilby was from Great Bend, Kansas. He came up with the idea for the integrated circuit while everyone at Texas Instruments was on vacation.

[@The_Viscount]

I'm a little miffed that they chose roller blades for Minnesota. We are home to the Mayo Clinic: one of the best hospitals on Earth. We have foreign heads of state come to Mayo to get treatment on a regular basis. The number of medical devices, tools, and procedures invented in Minnesota is staggering. First open heart surgery, first artificial heart and lung machine (life support), the first wearable pacemaker... Part of Minnesota is called Medical Alley.

[@tye8876]

As a native Minnesotan, thank you for posting your comment. I could not agree more.

[@ashleydixon4613]

Agreed! Mayo Clinic is definitely a good pick for MN. My folks drove up there from central Arkansas in the early 80’s when Mom was diagnosed with a fairly rare disorder and needed to see a specialist. (I was just in elementary school.) They stayed up there for a week, and were very impressed all around.

[@timfeeley714-25]

Ironically they showed roller skates!

[@glahtiguy]

They sort of mentioned 3m in passing, but way WAY undersold how many things we take for granted that were created by 3m. The company has over 35,000 granted patents.

[@GoldenDragon007]

As an Oklahoman, I would have preferred that he listed the shopping cart as our best invention over the scourge that is the parking meter.

[@OkiePeg411]

I would too. It was invented in OKC

[@dawsonteal3341]

Or the flight pressure suit.

[@libertybell8852]

I REFUSE to claim the "yield sign" though lol

[@tammycenter8757]

The cheeseburger was actually invented in Kentucky at Kaelin's restaurant. but the restaurant did not copy write the recipe. A guy from Colorado ate at the place and then went home and opened his own place where he started selling cheese burgers and filed for a copywrite on the recipe. It was granted to him. He stole the idea and this was proven many years ago when a hand written recipe in the restaurant's recipe book from Kentucky was shown to predate the Colorado Restaurant by 10 years.

[@pyronuke4768]

The TV is debated since its inventor was born in Utah, grew up in Idaho, returned to Utah for college, and eventually moved to California where he actually built it. If you're looking for a different invention from the state, then Idaho has nuclear power (kinda). While it wasn't the first state to build a nuclear reactor, the town of Arco was the first city to be entirely powered by one.

[@Summit900]

Arco, not Ashton.

[@pyronuke4768]

@@Summit900 yes, thank you for catching that. I knew it was Arco but I have no idea why my brain decided to be dumb and say Ashton.

[@Big_Tex]

Another commenter mentions this but by far the most important thing invented in Texas is the integrated circuit (chip). Invented by Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments, he won the Nobel Prize in physics for that in 2000. (He also invented the handheld calculator, thus creating the first consumer mass market for integrated circuits.). Btw I once was about 4 feet away from Kilby and was surprised to see he seemed 7 feet tall (but when I looked it up later it said he was 6-6 🤣)

[@Gypsynik]

Leonardo Da Vinchi drew concepts for the Helicopter and the Tank amoung other things. However he never actually invented them.

[@umaiar]

Tennessee whiskey, such as Jack Daniels, does meet all the legal requirements to be called bourbon. The big differences between Tennessee whiskey and bourbon are a charcoal filtering process before it's put into barrels for aging, and it can only be made in Tennessee. Bourbon can be made in any state. If someone outside of Tennessee follows the Tennessee whiskey process, they've made bourbon.

[@sharians-bluesky]

Nathan "Nearest" Green, also.

[@pc2555]

I learned from moving to kentucky a few years ago that bourbon can only be made in kentucky due to its unique limestone content in the water. Was that some state propaganda?

[@umaiar]

@@pc2555 I've heard many people repeating the idea that bourbon must be made in Kentucky, but it's not true. Cascade Hollow Distillery in Tennessee, who makes the George Dickel Tennessee whiskey, sells bottles labeled as bourbon that meet the Tennessee whiskey regulations. I've even bought a few bourbons made here in NY, including one from Manhattan.

[@thnecromaniac]

​@@pc2555completely, that limestone is hella common in and around Missouri.

[@sector986]

Real bourbon comes from Kentucky. And jack Daniel’s is rather mid. Blantons and eagle rare and other Kentucky bourbons are far better.

[@taun856]

A few other items from Oklahoma that deserve consideration: The shopping cart, the Yield Sign, The flight pressure suit which later developed into the modern Space suit, Voice mail and a man named Ed Roberts is credited with inventing the first Personal Computer.

[@libertybell8852]

Thank you!! The parking meter??!! They just couldn't give us one of our better ones, just to crap on OK, I swear! 😂😂😂

[@OkiePeg411]

Oklahoma is also where Nexrad radar was invented. You can imagine...its a weather radar. Texas is also where Dr pepper was invented...in Waco Texas. Theres a museum there about it.

[@kreiner1]

That was a bit harsh to us. Everyone hates parking meters.

[@libertybell8852]

​​@@kreiner1exactly! There are other items that would have been better, such as Nexrad, the shopping cart..flight pressure suit..

[@declanmueller2652]

Yes, Wyoming has always been sparsely populated. The state, as of the 2020 census, has 2.3% more people than it has ever had. I looked this up to give you a more familiar idea of its size: about 2.7 times the size of Portugal, and half the size of Spain.

[@TrueThanny]

Leonardo drew concept art that was basically a big screw shape pointed upwards, with the idea that it would rotate and channel air downwards. He never built anything like the drawing, and it wouldn't have really worked if he did. While his drawing fits the name "helicopter" better (literally "spiral wing"), it wasn't really much like the working aircraft that became called helicopters later on.

[@lindydepue9035]

Andre, you make all the videos so much fun to watch! Your English is excellent & easy to understand. As far as pausing is concerned, I love that as well! Keep the videos coming since I really look forward to your comments & questions.

[@european-reacts]

You made my day!

[@lindydepue9035]

You make my every day! ❤

[@moosefromsky3986]

Surprised he didn't have honorable mentions for Illinois. Barbed wire, the first cell phone, the profession of denistry, and the mechanical fishwasher also was invented in Illinois along with the zipper, cast steel plow, and the pinball machine. More: Blood banks Vacuum cleaner (manually powered) And for sweet tooths, chocolate brownies were also invented in Illinois.

[@moosefromsky3986]

*the mechanical dishwasher not the fishwasher Can't believe I missed that

[@WJones-jf8mf]

I’m from the town who invented barb wire. Our high school teams are crows or called barbs

[@Jac2587]

What about the first nuclear reactor?

[@brentflora8965]

Chicago, the testbed of the Democrats for rigging elections!

[@aengusdedanann181]

he said cotton candy for tn we made tow trucks and the touch screen also cast iron skillets!

[@sandygrunwaldt1780]

I giggled when you were trying to say Connecticut only because my husband is German and still has problems saying certain words 😂😂

[@patrioticz2858]

16:00 was made for the gold paners and miners because they needed tougher clothing

[@melissanewton7475]

I’m disappointed they picked Facebook for Massachusetts. It might be massively influential, but there’s so many things that aren’t embarrassing. Like the electric clock, spreadsheets, marshmallow fluff, and, oh yeah, the telephone. Though the most important might be chocolate chip cookies.

[@eddiec5202]

the telephone easily the most important inventions of the state of Massachusetts

[@Master_Yoda1990]

Who invented the telephone and when and where it was invented is highly contested.

[@natorgator4969]

Ngl, still better then a damn Segway

[@rodneysisco6364]

This is great to counter the too common perception that everything in America was invented in either New York or California .

[@kreiner1]

Man, why did they pick the parking meter. We don't like that one either. I'm calling this out, Oklahoma was the only one everyone would hate. We invented shopping carts, the yield sign, or NEXRAD the latest generation of weather radar. This has saved so many lives. So give a little love for the Sooner State.

[@libertybell8852]

This is what I'm saying!! ❤ 😂😂 Damn! It was just mean. Lol!!! Everyone always hates on Oklahoma.

[@brentflora8965]

Go through Oklahoma on HWY 40 (with outta state plates) & toll bills from OK. will beat you back home!

[@feralon9570]

I love that you pause and speak and ask questions. I think your accent is adorable and you ask good questions. It's nice to see people being genuinely inquisitive. I like your channel!

[@whenisdinner2137]

I would argue the transistor is the single most important invention in human history

[@melissanewton7475]

The hearing aid is awesome, but I would give Alabama the Saturn V rocket. The rocket that got us to the moon, in fact, the only rocket to get people beyond low earth orbit. (Fun fact they are so big, they had to build a highway to move them from Huntsville, AL to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.)

[@armysapper12b]

Levis were invented for miners, they needed better pants that would last longer and protect them.

[@cheryla7480]

Alaska did not invent the kayak. The meaning of the word Kayak means “ hunters boat “ and it was invented by the aboriginal peoples of Siberia, Greenland, Canada and Alaska ( long before the US purchased Alaska from Russia )The Thales ( Inuit ) and Aleut peoples over 4000 years ago.

[@CZH3982]

Good one, thank you!

[@jovetj]

15:40 The Reuben sandwich, vise-grips, frozen TV dinners, raisin bran, and Kool-aid were all invented in Nebraska. The emergency 911 system was first implemented in Nebraska.

[@TearsOfLa]

Fun fact from an Idahoan: The worlds first full scale nuclear reactor was built in Arco, Idaho. EBR-1 was the first large scale nuclear reactor that produced more enegry than it consumed.

[@ScrtyGrd]

About Wyoming. Part of the reason no one likes living here is the wind. The worst wind is during the winter and colder months. With wind gusts around 50 to 60 MPH (80 to 96 KPH) it gets pretty crazy and cold at the same time. Like on the 16th of Jan, it was -10F (-23C) in town of Lusk. I'm not sure what the wind speed was that day.

[@doctor8342]

They got the cotton gin for Georgia, and they mentioned anesthesia invented by Crawford Long I think is more important I mean anyone that has had surgery should be damn happy that this was invented.

[@MichaelGalok]

Thomas Edison's workshop is open to the public. You can go in there and see all of the crazy looking machinery they used to manufacture lightbulbs and you can go inside the very first motion picture theater and listen to the first audio recording ever made

[@tomorrowhowever7488]

The story of the Edison/Tesla war is fascinating.

[@libertybell8852]

Yes, Thomas Edison was a JERK! 😂 it was also Edison that did that horrible experiment with the elephant and electric current. Awful. Tesla worked for him for a time and had every reason to HATE Thomas Edison.

[@patrioticz2858]

5:20 the Iphone was the first "smart phone". I read his autobiography and the first prototype that could of went to market was taken by him and then thrown in a fish tank, a couple bubbles came up, and then he said "see that? You can make it smaller"

[@Fermifire]

The thing with the iPhone is that it opened the floodgates for Android and other tablet/computer like phones.

[@timmmahhhh]

A fun one from Illinois is the Ferris Wheel developed for the 1893 Columbian exposition by Pittsburgh engineer George Ferris. I understand the Spanish term for it is Rueda de Chicago, the Chicago Wheel.

[@carchick7545]

Ohio has tons of inventions like Rock and Roll and aviation

[@elizabethlovett4318]

I wish the one for Michigan wasn't also something linked to its decline. Love that you're sharing your thoughts so much in these reactions. It's okay to pause a lot for your thoughts as long as you backtrack. It's only annoying to share thoughts on something in the video if you don't pause and talk over the video. I'm watching you because you're not American and I want your thoughts for these videos on Americans no matter what it is. Plenty of people in the US assume the rest of the world doesn't like us (probably propaganda from our own government) so it's always refreshing and surprising that non-Americans would think nicely of us. You're doing great and thank you for sharing your thoughts, they mean so much! I don't know if Wyoming ever had more people than it does now, but I do know that when a state has less people than others, it can be for any multiple or combination of reasons: Few job opportunities. Crime. The location isn't habitable. Has more nature reserves, conservations and parks than people (good, the US needs that). Better education is elsewhere. And maybe a lot more.

[@AC-ni4gt]

Utah also did the television. Not many people realize that. A man named Philo T. Farnsworth did it. You can look it up.

[@lilsammywasapunkrock]

This is a weird one, but Farnsworth was a genius and dabbled in so many different sciences and technologies it's ridiculous. In his later years, he had a lab in the university of Utah basement and while attempting to build his own nuclear reactor, he blew up the basement. Farnsworth was born in Idaho (where he drew out the idea of television) and then his family moved to beaver UT as a teen. He worked to get funding for the television and was hired by RCA who wanted him to build an operational television system in their studio in California. And as a side note, professor Farnsworth in Futurama was loosely based on Farnsworth.

[@AC-ni4gt]

@@lilsammywasapunkrock somehow doesn't surprise me. Mario Cappechi, a Nobel Prize winner, experimented with the genetics of flies in University of Utah.

[@vidpie]

Philo T. Farnsworth was a farmboy who came up with the notion of televison as he plowed a field. "Farnsworth dreamed up his own idea for electronic-rather than mechanical-television while driving a horse-drawn harrow at the family’s new farm in Idaho (around 1920). As he plowed a potato field in straight, parallel lines, he saw television in the furrows. He envisioned a system that would break an image into horizontal lines and reassemble those lines into a picture at the other end. Only electrons could capture, transmit and reproduce a clear moving figure. This eureka experience happened at the age of 14."

[@pyronuke4768]

I have no idea why Utah is so eager to take the TV away from Idaho. Philo was technically in California when he was able to get his idea to work practically.

[@lilsammywasapunkrock]

@@pyronuke4768 probably because he lived in Utah nearly his entire life, experimented and built almost every component of the television in Utah before actually making it work in California and never returned to Idaho? It was "invented" in Idaho, meaning he knew the idea worked there, but it was never built there either.

[@rcrawford42]

The CSS Hunley was the first SUCCESSFUL submarine attack. Bushnell's "Turtle" attempted to fix bombs on British ships in -- I believe -- New York harbor during the American War of Independence.

[@lorrainea.9023]

The photos in the video leave something to be desired - Electric typewriter (pic shows a manual that it replaced), in-line skates (shows 4-corner wheel skates that in-lines replaced). He could have at least shown the actual invention!

[@rcrawford42]

Steam powered tractors are AMAZING. They're huge, and almost perfectly silent -- I was five feet away from one driving by me, and mostly what I heard were the rattle of some chains.

[@ptorq]

Jack Daniels product is "Tennessee Whiskey", but the standards for "Tennessee whiskey" and bourbon are similar. They're meeting all the requirements for bourbon, plus a couple of additional things (one of which is making it in Tennessee). The law doesn't say you CAN'T do those things when making bourbon, so if they wanted to label it bourbon they could legally do so.

[@ploppill34]

'Donuts is a game changer" 😄

[@spawnedreplacement]

Your English really is fantastic. And don’t worry Connecticut is a hard one for most Americans as well lol. Oh one more thing. Arizona is beautiful, but hot. Born and raised there and still to this day I have the best memories of looking out my window growing up and having the entire Sonoran desert spread out before me❤

[@josephy2]

Mississippi inventions: Pine Sol (All-purpose cleaner) in 1929 and root beer (soft drink) in 1898.

[@originaldcjensen]

As long as you don't mix them up.

[@Dixie_N0rmis]

Monster trucks come from Missouri. So are automatic fire alarms. Both deserved to be mentioned more than ice cream cones imo.

[@danmanak]

Ok, at the beginning of this video I first thought Alaska would be the fish wheel, but then I remembered that the Inuit/Eskimos actually invented "sunglasses" to shield their eyes from snow blindness..the sun gets so bright up here overhead, and reflecting off of the pure snow and ice that there's really no way to avoid it blinding you unless you have eye protection. I'm at 1:52, let's see what they say. And yes, I know it's dark in the winter here. But way up north there's still snow and ice during the summer.

[@mauruhkatigaming4807]

A fun, lesser invention from Minnesota: water-skiing. Invented on Lake Pepin. The real, serious answer is probably one of the many medical discoveries made at the Mayo Clinic. Stuff like cortisone or open-heart surgery.

[@anthonycochran6492]

18:03 Just to clear things up Kittyhawk is on the coast of "South" Carolina 21:00 This "Fact" is also correct. There was a submersible in 1775 that was used by the Americans in the Revolutionary War. It was called the "Turtle", and carried out several failed attempts to affix explosives to anchored British warships. It is regarded as the fist submarine ever used for military purposes.

[@nolenhughes1775]

I am from NC. Specifically, just north of Asheville, in the western part of the state. It is mountainess, and the cold and chance for snowy weather has actually excited a lot of people. We used to have proper winters, but most of the time now we just get a dusting of snow. Currently is 34*F outside, it should honestly be 10-15* cooler outside. We used to get snow at least once a week, now we are lucky for once a month in December, January, and February.

[@jacklewis5452]

The transistor is considered one of the most important inventions in history. Before that, we used HUGE Vacuum tubes. But Illinois is the home of the following: The first controlled nuclear reaction occurred under the football field at the University of Chicago (you can see it in the movie Oppenheimer). The first cellphone was created by Motorola and the first cell system was in Chicago. The first skyscraper was invented and built in Chicago. The zipper, the dishwasher, the brownie, the ferris wheel, the vacuum cleaner, pinball machine, and barbed wire and lots of other things.

[@rcrawford42]

Hey! I used to comment on Ward Cunningham's C2 wiki! Nice to see him get credit for it.

[@chuckmoseley3771]

Enjoyed the show from Florida.

[@glennbeattie6172]

You have no idea how cold it gets in America. Many places like Wyoming are very difficult to live in because of meters and meters of snow and cold in the winter.

[@mildredpierce4506]

Pre-computers, Texas Instruments made the best calculators.

[@hectorsmommy1717]

I am pleasantly surprised they went with the blender for Wisconsin. Most of these mention Harley Davidson motorcycles but the blender is more useful to the average person.

[@ONE2ONE3]

Dr. Pepper was created in my hometown of Waco, Texas. We have the Dr. Pepper museum here that show the entire history of Dr. Pepper with the original equipment used to make the drink dating back to 1885. The Museum is the original building built specifically to bottle Dr. Pepper and was bottled there until the 1960s. Dr. Pepper was created by a pharmacist named Charles Alderton who moved to Texas from New York and studied medicine at the University of Texas, he died in 1941 at the age of 83.

[@lindiharris-axon8167]

Have you visited New England? While there, my son kept asking for Dr. Pepper when we went out to eat. Without fail, the answer was, "We don't have Dr. Pepper. We have Root Beer, though, and we're told it tastes semilar. I'm like, what? They taste nothing alike, lol.

[@ONE2ONE3]

@@lindiharris-axon8167 Root Beer doesn't takes anything like Dr. Pepper, LOL I have never been to New England but maybe 1 day, Dr. Pepper in other states and countries actually taste different outside of central Texas because it's made and bottle by Coke, the bottles even look different inside of central Texas, Dr. Pepper in central Texas is made and bottle by Dr. Pepper/Seven Up, INC and when the drink was getting popular they didn't have the ability to mass produce it and ship it around the world so they asked Coke and Coke agreed

[@luistigerfox]

I still take issue with videos saying Minnesota's best inventions are things like roller-blades or post-it notes. I would say the closed-cabin commercial airliner, electronic autopilot, or the black box flight recorder are good choices. Or mechanical freight cooling systems for trucks and trains. Or open heart surgery, or the blood pump/oxygenator later used for said surgeries, or prosthetic heart valves. Additionally there's Recon Robotics, with the tactical throwable micro-robot. Ziagen would also be one I'd put on the list ahead of rollerblades, being one of the most important AIDS treatment medications. Anyway, thanks for reacting to another video. It's pretty neat seeing your opinion on things.

[@jeffhampton2767]

He never even mentioned that electricity was invented in New York and without that we would have had nothing

[@golfr-kg9ss]

This was a fun video and I learned a few things. I think DaVinci gets credit for the idea of the helicopter but the guys built the first successful helicopter.

[@EliasExists]

Yep first helicopter that could lift you

[@NarestWhal]

The narrator just completely passed up on the fact that the first (not directly wire connected) computer network was made, or you know the beginings of an interconnected web of computer THE INTERNET

[@aengusdedanann181]

Oh come on! Tennessee made tow trucks, the touch screen and cast iron skillets

[@KMS548]

The bigger invention that comes from Oregon is the computer mouse

[@geraldharvey8979]

Another great video! Thank you!

[@jvdixie]

Arkansas’ favorite invention is cheese dip. First made at Mexico Chiquito in North Little Rock Arkansas around 1935.

[@robertflores2282]

Yes, we invented the Atomic Bomb, some might call New Mexico the mad scientist of the US being that there are very important national labs in the state.

[@jwilliams1285]

The process of refrigeration was invented in Apalachicola Florida by a doctor trying to keep his patients cool. You can thank that guy for air conditioning and your refrigerator

[@knightspearhead5718]

Leonardo came up with the idea for the airplane not the helicopter but his big ideas never came to fruition Jazz is responsible for what modern day music is Edison wasnt the only one with the idea for the light bulb but he's the one who perfected it

[@Zealyx]

Arkansan here. The invention of “Talkies” is cool and all, as it has made a small/moderate impact on humanity, but I would’ve gone with the good ole Arkansas Toothpick, the legendary Bowie Knife.

[@fortnite7038]

Fun Fact about Maine. we are known for having excellent donuts and many different locally owned donut shops, but i have never once heard anybody claim that donuts came from maine. most everywhere online points to nyc, england, or rome. don’t know how that one slipped though the cracks. earmuffs were invented here though.

[@zeehero7280]

Bourbon is whiskey made from Corn

[@thatbroad5848]

Wyoming. The w is pronounced. Most of the land in many western states belongs to the federal government. And Wyoming in particular is high desert. Freezing windy winters and parched very hot summers. It’s fairly ugly throughout the areas people are able to go.

[@Master_Yoda1990]

Wyoming isn't high desert, it's mainly grassland and prairie. Wyoming is home to The Red Desert which takes up only 10% of Wyoming.

[@msjrockqueen2011]

I'm not sure about the helicopter, but I know that Da Vinci had plans drawn out for a "flying machine;" the man really was ahead of his time. I used to be mad that the Wright Brothers got all the credit, but they do deserve credit for being the first to actually fly a plane. 🛩👴

[@JKM395]

Really good catch on this one. I knew the ones from Florida because I grew up here, but many of the others were a complete surprise. Good video. Have a great day, yall.

[@alexp1873]

California: lasers, internet, Apple computers, Hollywood movies, fast food, Disney

[@Big_Tex]

Fast food is a bit of a stretch, McDonalds did not invent fast food. Fast food’s been around since at least Ancient Rome, and White Castle and other places predate McD’s in the US.

[@bobair2]

The transistor was invented in Murry Hill ,New Jersey on December 23 1947 by Walter Brattain and John Bardeen and an improved version in 1948 by William Shockley. Facr checking prevents fiction.

[@TheCsel]

Throughout the 19th and 20th several people developed weapon technology with the idea that it would make war so costly that nations would never go to war. The machine gun and nitroglycerine explosives for example. However in those cases they turned out to be failures and only escalated warfare. However the Nuclear bomb has succeeded where the previous weapons failed (at least so far). Mutually Assured Destruction has for the first time in world history eliminated full scale war between world superpowers. (at least so far)

[@robinsmith2815]

Just passed your video onto my friends here in the USA. Hope you get a few more followers. Hope to see you here in America one day to visit. Best Wishes from Cajun Country in Louisiana.

[@EliasExists]

Connecticut has some fun ones as well that may or may not change some of the other things on the list. The frisbee, the first *functional* helicopter, subway was born here, mint flavored toothpaste, Colt .45 revolver and colt firearms in general (Samuel Colt lived here), sewing machines, portable typewriters, payphones, Polaroid cameras, submarines, vacuum cleaners, nuclear subs, the dictionary, public libraries, lollipops, colored tvs, and ESPN. Also Some unproven but reputable claims were that the oldest still running, if not the first, hamburger is from a local joint that still operates to this day, Gustave Whitehead possibly not being the first to make a functional airplane but possibly being the first to fly with his machine in which he supposedly glided in for 300 ft, and Connecticut also has one of the earliest examples of the pizza box in 1936, made for the widely believed best pizza place in the country Frank Pepe’s. All those essays I had to write on Connecticut inventions paid off here

[@ryanmaurer1377]

As a Tennessean, Cotton Candy is not our peak invention. Tennessee also invented the Dumpster, Mountain Dew, Mini Golf, the Touchscreen Monitor, IdleAire, VeinVeiwer, Typewriter Ribbon, the TOW TRUCK, and the first Self-Service Grocery Store (Piggly Wiggly). Cotton candy is delicious though.

[@ryanmaurer1377]

Not to mention Bush's brand beans. We were also heavily involved in the Manhattan Project (Atomic Bomb).

[@BenBourassa]

12:22 yeah the most famous bourbon would probably be Maker’s Mark

[@user-neo71665]

Dean Kamen invented the segway and was also killed by the segway. He was working on an all terrain model that went out of control and drove over a cliff. I think you might be mixing up Montana with Wyoming.

[@revgurley]

All Floridians give thanks to Mr. Carrier, the inventor of air conditioning, each Thanksgiving. (I'm only sort of joking)

[@TheSteamLocomotive]

Indiana had the first running automobile in the United States. Charles H. Black, Indianapolis in 1891.

[@rbb9753]

Also, a reliable method for mass producing safe insulin. EDIT: Oh, and the Gatling gun.

[@pyrovania]

I would love to see a list of inventions for each country.

[@brentflora8965]

SIM, obrigado por mostrar este video de estado por estado, as envençoes q foi realizado em cada lugar!

[@ericmiles6413]

I THINK THEY MADE RUBBER BOOTS FROM THE VULCANIZED RUBBER FROM CONNECTICUT ALSO MADE MATCHES HERE IN BEACON FALLS AND SOLD PATENT TO A MAN LAST NAME "DIAMOND".

[@gnarkillgnarkill7725]

Da Vinci invented the flying screw. But he didn't really invent it. He drew it and had an idea about it. As far as I know, he never actually built anything like it that would fly.

[@jonadabtheunsightly]

The most impactful American inventions are probably cheap paper (i.e., the sulfite process, pioneered in Rhode Island), the transistor (the video says Illinois, but Wikipedia says New Jersey), and the internet (a collaborative effort among sites in several states; and note that the World Wide Web was invented later, in Europe). The assembly line and electric light bulb are also quite significant. The Hall-Heroult process (for affordably turning alumina into elemental aluminum metal) is also notable, but Pennsylvania has to share credit with France, because two people came up with it independently at pretty much the same time. My state, Ohio, claims the fixed-wing aircraft, although they went all the way down to the Carolinas to test-fly the thing for some reason. Donuts are an incremental improvement on various pre-existing sweet pastries brought over from Europe. The camera existed since antiquity; it was camera _film_ that was invented in America in the nineteenth century.

[@bballer2324ify]

hold up... back up on the submarine. the Turtle used during the revolutionary war counts as a submarine.

[@Alex-dh2cx]

You can go see the hunley in a museum in downtown Charleston.

[@cyndicook7755]

There's a model of it in the State Museum in Columbia. I couldn't imagine being underwater in that thing.

[@birch5757]

I'm pretty sure the wright brothers did their first test flight at Huffman prairie in Dayton Ohio. I love NC, but they stole the claim of flight for themselves.

[@trish7754]

I agree!

[@loufancelli1330]

He is wrong abut the airplane. It was invented in Ohio, not North Carolina. The only reason that the first flight was in NC was because the Wright brothers needed a desolate, windy place with soft ground to crash land on and that was the closest place they knew of. But it was 100% invented in Ohio.

[@yvs707]

Don't take this list too seriously. CHICAGO, IL for the transistor by William Shockley is a stretch. Makes it sound like Illinois is greatly tied to this. The dude was not from here or spend much time here. We invited the barb wire and Cynthia Ann Crawford.

[@NyxinOwl]

I had NO IDEA that Americans invented so many things that changed the world, good and bad. Thank you for sharing!

[@thestairwaystogames]

Bro I die every time he says “forget about my friends” lmaooo

[@maxdugan211]

Kellogg and Post Cereal. Michigan. There is a documentary about it

[@moose4377]

Connecticut also invented the Hamburger, which I thought they would list the cheeseburger then the hamburger

[@gabegerdes298]

Iowa has the first computer ever made. And iowa invented sliced bread.

[@european-reacts]

Amazing 🙏

[@Big_Tex]

It depends on how you define “computer”, there are other claims, but he gets credit for the first special-purpose non-programmable digital electronic computer … you kind of need all those words. But there was in fact a court ruling judging him the inventor of the computer.

[@gabegerdes298]

@@Big_Tex the first electronic digital computer was built in iowa state university in 1937 4 years before the famous eniac computer My bad 6 years

[@Big_Tex]

@@gabegerdes298if you read my comment I obviously know that, I was being more specific. The ABC Computer was not programmable nor general-purpose, which are important things to consider in the history of computers.

[@gabegerdes298]

@@Big_Tex of course it wasn't general purpose, no major breakthrough in technology is general purpose at first. They had a court case in the 70s to solve the question of what is the first computer. They settled with the ABC is the first digital computer since it's hard to determine what a computer is.

[@chaz720]

Honorable mention from Illinois: cell phones, nuclear fission, web browsers, and skyscrapers. Oh, and zippers. But I still agree with the selection of the transistor because I'm an EE.

[@cerealkiller8921]

I'm from beautiful western Pennsylvania. A rural area about halfway between the cities of Erie and Pittsburgh.

[@MelanieCreates]

The state of New Mexico is also the green chilé capital of the world, too!🌶😋