Brit Reacts to The Best Invention From Each US State

[@SirFloofy001]

8:22 the cotton gin allowed cotton to be cleaned on a large scale. Each puff of cotton can contain hundreds of seeds, and each plant can hold a few dozen puffs of cotton. You used to comb through and remove all the seeds by hand which was extremely time consuming which made cotton (especially clean cotton that can be run through a loom, seeds left in cotton can jam and even damage loom's) expensive. Cotton gin's allowed cotton to be cleaned extremely quickly by machine and was one of the most importing contributors to the industrial revolution, right next to the printing press and steam engine.

[@MWSin1]

It's biggest impact is creating the industry that ultimately led to the American Civil War.

[@madduck2323]

So funny you mentioned that. I always say the only thing I can remember from high skool is that Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin. 😅

[@youplayzz7922]

It also affected African American slavery! Since the whole process became a lot easier for Slavers to make money, it actually caused a higher demand for enslaved labor. 😬

[@madduck2323]

@@youplayzz7922 in case you haven’t noticed, that’s the way it’s always been. We are all enslaved and it’s about to get even worse.

[@youplayzz7922]

@@madduck2323 sorry I don't get what you mean. Can you elaborate?

[@MrMattf727]

vulcanizing rubber made it where rubber didn't just crumble away as it was used. it gave it flexability. SUPER important invention

[@UrbanGardeningWithD.A.Hanks14]

Thank God they have vulcanized condoms, or I'd be broke!

[@tboned70]

The Olmec discovered and cultivated Rubber,.....

[@raychauvette1467]

@@tboned70That’s not what he’s saying, rubber itself was invented and discovered far before this. Originally it was white, until vilcanization was discovered by adding carbon in the US. This gave the tire more elasticity and made it less brittle.

[@ReivecS]

Cotton candy was actually invented by a dentist because he wanted to reduce the damage that hard candies were doing and make a soft alternative.

[@greggorybingham1032]

I’m from Indiana. We came up with the first color movie projector, the original design of the Gatling gun used in the American Civil War (Before Gatling tweaked it to fire more than 3,000 rounds per minute, the original only fired 352 rounds per minute.), we started Movie Theater Popcorn made by the Orville Reddenbacher Popcorn Company, modern gaming when Castle Wolfenstein came out on the Apple 2 platform, and Wonder Bread.

[@adgato75]

Oh shit i didn't know we did Castle Wolfenstein. Go Hoosiers !

[@KevinVenturePhilippines]

The Gatling gun was invented by a dentist in New York from North Carolina, maybe later put together in Indiana.

[@bibliothecaire]

And seatbelts and Chuck Taylor shoes.

[@elishavarivka8923]

Wow, thanks for that. I didn’t know all those neat things about one of my fellow Midwestern states. Thanks for explaining all those neat things that Indiana invented.

[@paulawitham3579]

Also Crest toothpaste was invented at Indiana University.

[@shelbyhodge6100]

I am from Oklahoma and even though the parking meter is a widely used invention, I believe that the shopping cart, buggey, or trolley, whatever you like to call it is a more important invention.

[@penquin402]

So is the Yield Sign which was invented in Tulsa.

[@jollyjacob1012]

Yes Oklahoma is superior and #1 state 😎💪💪

[@christianvanskike2347]

The shopping cart was invented as a ploy to get people to buy more stuff. It led to the creation of the supermarket and, eventually, supercenters like modern Walmart or Target.

[@charliejones7294]

The electric guitar 🎸

[@revgurley]

A "did you know" from Alabama, speaking of hearing aids, the famous deaf/blind writer, Helen Keller, was born in Alabama. If you haven't tried Buffalo Wings with Ranch dressing, (instead of blue cheese) you're missing out. I was born in Florida (the image in the video is Lake Eola in Orlando), and we regularly give thanks to Mr. Carrier for inventing the air con unit. And once upon a time, they made "Gator Gum." It was made to moisten the mouth, much like Gatorade quenches thirst. Of course it's from the University of Florida, because they are the Gators. Now, for Georgia where I am now: the cotton gin is a two sided issue - Eli Whitney was a huge abolitionist (getting rid of slaves), and thought the cotton gin (invented 1794) would help release the slaves, since they wouldn't have to pick the seeds out of the cotton by hand. But it turned out the opposite - more cotton was produced, so more slaves were needed. Whitney had the right heart, but it backfired on him. Sorry for the edit, but had to add that I wasn't sure about calculators (though we had them when I was in school in the 70s-90s), and asked my mom. They used abacuses in school. You'll have to look up a picture. Like counting with beads on a board. She'd thrown hers away as the new technology made math so much easier, so I never learned how to use one. Oh, and before electric lights there was gas. Big deal to some who were afraid to have a flammable gas pumped into their homes. They did the same with electricity. They were sure either gas or electricity would burn their houses down. Though rare, it does happen. Probably less than with tons of candles around.

[@beesnort3163]

I didn’t know that about the cotton gin! Thank you for that info!❤

[@48stars68]

He just skipped right over Alabama in the “A’s” I think a Brit would appreciate the electric kettle (1922), and another important one - Windshield wipers

[@charlesgallagher1376]

Wings with ranch is an abomination.

[@edwardofgreene]

As a proud American I will ALWAYS eat Buffalo wings with Blue Cheese!!!

[@d.rodrickeamon6133]

When I managed a photography studio in Helena, Montana back in the 1970s, I met and came to know "Old Man Holter," creator of the wearable heart monitor. At that time, he had just gone from mini reel-to-reel tape recording to the new high-tech "cassette" medium. He was a hoot. At the time, he was semi-retired and was playing around with stainless steel sheets and dynamite to create bits of art. "Eccentric" was the term everyone used when we discussed him. An amazing man.

[@luistigerfox]

Here from Minnesota, there's just SO many inventions to list. Roller blades are cool, but... There's water skis, the taconite process, the black box, nerf balls, twister , furnace thermostats, pop-up toasters, milky way candy bar (and the mars candy company in general.), closed-cabin commercial plane, freight-cooling system for trucks, electronic autopilots, magnetic recording tape, tonka trucks, packaged cake mix, bundt pans, snow blowers, open-heart surgery, blood pumps/ECMO, in-ear hearing aids, climate controlled shopping centers, recreational snowmobiles, implantable pacemakers, deep-sea submarines, skyways, retractable seat belts, first computer to be classed as a supercomputer (Control Data Corporation 6600), prosthetic heart valves, organ transplants, Crisp-crust frozen pizzas, NordicTrack, Satellite TV broadcasting, Sleep number beds, microwave popcorn, Ziagen (big breakthrough in anti-AIDS), and throwable tactical micro robots, Post-its, sandpaper, scotch tape, (basically every 3M product.), oxygen masks for planes, ....

[@redshed2020]

I think I'd go with post it notes. Use them every day.

[@TheSulross]

thanks for showing some restraint and leaving a few inventions for the other states to claim

[@UrbanGardeningWithD.A.Hanks14]

Let's not forget 3M! I love my duct tape!

[@tiffanymichaels2429]

Spam! You forgot Spam, lol

[@UrbanGardeningWithD.A.Hanks14]

@@tiffanymichaels2429 OMG! Is that where it was invented? That stuff is soooo gross, LOL!

[@Eniral441]

The Edison thing is oversimplified. He didn't invent the light bulb. They were around before he was born. However, he bought the patent and found a way to make it (the incandescent bulb) more accessible to everyday households. However, it is Tesla's AC system that we use today.

[@billiedeyarmin7478]

Edison didn’t actually invent anything, the things invented came from his lab. The lab were multiple people worked on ideas. He once said “I never had an idea in my life. My so called inventions already existed in the environment, I took them out.”

[@badladyami]

Edison's real contribution to the incandescent light was identifying which metal could be used as a filament without breaking under the stress of being vibrated with electric current thoroughly enough to produce light.

[@zulu0716]

The reply above is exactly correct.

[@lookoutforchris]

He invented the first practical lightbulb. Before him they burned out sometimes in just a few seconds. No one sold them, they were not a product, just an idea that didn't work. In a very real sense he did invent lightbulbs, the actual thing we use. Saying otherwise would be like saying Da Vinci invented the helicopter... when he just sketched it and put an angle turning a crank where the engine needed to be because he couldn't image an internal combustion or turbine engine. It took several people in the 20th century to actually invent and then commercialize what we would call a modern helicopter.

[@Eniral441]

@@lookoutforchris Actually, it wasn't his. He purchased that patent from Moses Gerris Farmer. He did develop mass production method of the components and bulbs. He was famous for buying patents from people and then developing them for market.

[@Mr_Grimm13]

Greatest invention of Missouri is the bread slicing machine invented by Otto Frederick Rohwedder. The first commercial use of the machine was by the Chillicothe Baking Company of Chillicothe, Missouri, who sold their first slices on July 7, 1928. This invention led to the expression “the greatest thing since sliced bread.” I actually met a descent of his who told me that he received very little money from his patent.

[@kyrataylor2035]

Fellow Missourian here. I've heard that phrase most of my life but I never knew the bread slicing machine was invented in Missouri. Thank you.

[@Big_Tex]

I remember this - correction for Texas, it’s the integrated circuit (chip, microchip, IC), invented by Jack Kilby at Texas Instruments in Dallas in 1958. He won the Nobel Prize in Physics for that in 2000. I mean there ain’t nothing in the modern world without chips. Kilby ALSO led the team that invented the 1st handheld calculator there in 1968 and holds that patent. I think that’s what the guy in the video was referring to but he wasn’t clear.

[@chiefgully9353]

Also breast implants artificial hearts 3d printing and a few other things

[@joshjones6072]

I always wondered why so many calculators were made by Texas Instruments. Turns out because the pocket calculator was invented in Texas. Cool.

[@joshjones6072]

@chiefgully9353 3D printing invented in Texas is a huge one.

[@paigeharrison3909]

My father filed two patents while working for Texas Instruments. Of course, those patents are owned by Texas Instruments. He's also filed one on his own since he left TI.

[@oltedders]

7-11 stores.

[@MikeKonczal-cq1pu]

Taking the sap from Maple trees to make syrup was invented by Native Americans and taught to the Colonists. Due to Vermont's long winters and short growing seasons, making syrup, usually in mid-March before they could plant their crops, was a boon to the local farmers who took to it with zeal. The Evaporator was invented here. It takes forty gallons of sap to make one gallon of syrup, a long, arduous job turned into one that was so much easier and allowed mass production.

[@SpazTickMind]

Your half right. The indigenous people who were there before the colony were never native to America. Only people born in America are native to America. It was never called American until Amerigo Discovered it. That's why it's called America not Columbia or some form of the name.

[@jamestaylor3805]

Yeah, we still have evidence of taps in Maine that predate colonization.

[@MikeKonczal-cq1pu]

@@SpazTickMind There are mammoth bones that have been found in Mexico with the tell-tale signs of human killing and stripping that date back 37,000 years, but even if it were 10,000 years if they don't qualify as "native," nobody does. Ireland was only inhabited 8,000 years ago. Also, when crossing the border from US to Canada, one way they ask your citizenship is, "Are you native to America?" By that they mean, are you Naturalized, have a Green Card, or Illegal? If you're a Creationist, then they've been here from the beginning.

[@dr.westwood]

People have been tapping trees all over the world for much longer than settlers came to America. So, sorry, you’re wrong.

[@MikeKonczal-cq1pu]

@@dr.westwood You're right. The Colonists may have been tapping various trees upon arrival in N. Vermont. They were taught to make one product: Grade A Amber Maple syrup. This tree, when days are over 40, nights under 32, the 40/1 ratio, boiled at this temp, this long. Small, under-populated Vermont produces 50% of the US's total harvest and is the world's highest quality. I'm curious, though. Why are you sorry I'm wrong? I've been wrong lots of times. I have always found I never forget the truth of a thing when I have been wrong. Have a great night.

[@Jrox1004]

Bruh! I have watched a lot of your videos and subscribed. Love to see and watch your reactions. Being an American I find it actually quite comical. But DUDE! LOL This one was one of the best, your reaction to the guy's title of his video was a classic. I showed it to a couple of friends and we were just dying. Keep pushing these vid's out, these are awesome!!

[@DennisDA]

Before the hand-held calculator the used what was called a slide rule. It had several units printed along the edges and there was a slide in the middle also with numbers on it.

[@jimmybrewer7041]

Havent watched this yet and i am from oklahoma where our most popular inventions are: the parking meter, the shopping cart, and NEXRAD. NEXRAD is the most important because as the saying goes here, "if you dont like the weather here, wait five minutes. It'll change.".

[@sallypursell1284]

I'm from Missouri, and my father was one of the design engineers for the Gemini and Apollo Space Missions, like the one that went to the moon. He also helped design the F-15 aircraft and he personally debugged the Goodyear flight simulator, a very early working model.

[@iriscollins7583]

How many other engineers worked on the Gemini and Apollo projects?

[@sallypursell1284]

I don't know, but a great many, I think. Few were able to say that a feature of the spacecraft was their own design, as my father could. I am very proud of him, and the Air Force sent a squadron of F-18's to overfly his funeral.@@iriscollins7583

[@misslora3896]

The place you thought you saw a face in the rocks and want to travel on horseback is Sedona Arizona. It's my favorite place in the entire world. It's not only visually stunning, but there's a feeling you get there that's hard to descibe. They say it's an area with a strong energy vortex due to ley lines... I don't know, but whatever it is, it feels wonderful.

[@debbylou5729]

And you will see that scenery for weeks if you’re romantically riding a horse

[@dawnsmith7824]

I'm from Wisconsin and our best invention is Deep Fried Cheese Curds (with Ranch Dressing)

[@kazini2]

I went to a technical college in Wisconsin years ago and have yet to find anywhere else in the country that has deep fried curds that are as good as they are out there.

[@silkcitysocialist420]

That sounds gross!

[@dawnsmith7824]

@@silkcitysocialist420 maybe so, but they really are the best bar food with beer!

[@silkcitysocialist420]

@@dawnsmith7824 I'm from New Jersey. We have disco fries....french fries, brown gravy and melted provolone and others cheeses on top.

[@dawnsmith7824]

@@silkcitysocialist420 that sounds good too!

[@paulacornelison243]

Pre toilet paper: newspaper, magazine pages, leaves, corn cobs, anything available.

[@eldie3d]

Louisiana... 1.) Jazz, Zydeco, Cajun, and Swamp Pop. ... 3.) The First Licensed Pharmacy. ... 4.) The Cocktail - The Sazerac. ... 5.) Poker. ... 6.) Food. ... 8.) Venetian Blinds. ... 9.) Binocular Microscope. ... 10.) Tabasco.

[@clinthowe7629]

The story behind the ice cream cone is interesting, he ran out of bowls, and an adjacent booth was selling pancakes, so he took some pancakes and rolled them into a cone making the first ice cream cone, later on they make proper sugar cones, but it was hotcakes that were used first.

[@mrmoofle]

It was waffles, and it happened at the World's Fair.

[@robtheroadie2240]

My city made the first waffle cones!

[@Kelly-z6c]

I heard it was pizzelles (an Italian cookie) next to a gelato booth

[@potatos_4_free]

I heard it was crépes by a frozen yogurt shop

[@potatos_4_free]

I love really thin pancakes

[@andreabutner9914]

I'm from Tennessee (Nashville). Not really an "invention" per se......but, Jack Daniels whiskey is made here and it's pretty high on my list. LOL. 😁

[@TennesseeHeath]

If you haven't yet, try out Chattanooga Whiskey! It's pretty good

[@lisamalone8244]

Nashville here, our hot chicken ain't to shabby

[@TheOutlineLife]

And the barret 50 caliber sniper rifle, how they gonna bring Tennessee and not bring up music or guns

[@cheryldavis9313]

How about FedEx in Memphis.

[@vickiehadd4324]

😂😂😂❤

[@dragonson04]

Utah has such a history of invention. Philo T. Farnsworth, the inventor of the Television, was from Utah. The first artificial heart was Utah, along with the electric guitar, hearing aids, car stereo, electric traffic light, DVD, Zamboni, frisbees, and FREAKING VIDEO GAMES. (The creator of PONG was from Clearfield).

[@pyronuke4768]

Farnsworth moved to Idaho when he was twelve though, he was living in Rigby when he came up with the idea. No shade, but stop trying to take away the one thing we got going for us that isn't potatoes.

[@Expertspecter]

First artificial heart transplant was done in Texas, which is neat.

[@mamaduck1136]

he meant open heart sugary in the 1950s@@Expertspecter

[@edmundooliver7584]

electric guitar was invented by Rickenbacker in Calf.

[@mamaduck1136]

@@grumblesa10 we got skiing and... temples and..

[@rob_over_9000]

To be fair, the atomic bomb was a cool invention. Sure, it was used as a weapon - but the research there was also used for nuclear energy production.

[@Brendan-gv3vd]

I’d credit nuclear to Illinois, the first ever piece of nuclear energy was created about 20 minutes from where I live, and the first commercial power plant is in morris illinois.

[@DodoLord12]

In addition, the manhattan project that created the bomb was headquartered in Tennessee

[@abc-coleaks-info]

New Mexico didn’t invent the bomb. We were just the first place bombed with it.

[@LisaRutherford-mu2zc]

@@DodoLord12I came here to say the same thing. Oak Ridge.

[@TonyHendren]

Maraschino Cherry's invented at OSU in Oregon! Way cooler than Wikipedia. There is still a factory here in Salem that makes them.

[@tinahairston6383]

Cotton was harvested mainly with slave labor. The cotton gin (engine) quickly and easily separates cotton fibers from their seeds, enabling much greater productivity than manual cotton separation. I'm in VA and Chapstick is always in my purse or on my desk. I'm actually about 45 min away from Lynchburg where it was invented. Other inventions: The first successful Electric Streetcar was invented in Richmond in 1888; The first public theater in the U.S. was built in Williamsburg in 1716; The first commercial crop of peanuts was grown in the mid 1800s; The first free public school started in Hampton in 1634; The first Mechanical Reaper for grain was invented in 1831.The microphone as we know it--James West created foil-electret transducers for sound recording and voice communication which accounts for the technology used in 90% of all microphones and most new phones used today.

[@debbylou5729]

Can we stop pretending that slavery originated in the US? Can we talk about sugar cane, rubber…..anything that requires massive labor. I wouldn’t have said a thing if slavery wasn’t at an all time high. Go to the Middle East and tell them how disappointed you are in their behavior. Let’s not forget the Dutch who were lauded for being able to double the number of humans you could pack into a ship

[@meachellebrathwaite1835]

​@@debbylou5729who said slavery was invented in the US?

[@meachellebrathwaite1835]

​@@debbylou5729nobody...

[@tommytaylor2712]

Thanks for making it about race in tour first sentence....do better

[@tinahairston6383]

@@tommytaylor2712 I didn't make anything about race. If it's the truth, it's the truth and cotton was harvested by slave labor for decades and slave labor wasn't just limited to one race throughout history. I didn't throw the race card, only stated the truth without any bias, judgement, or prejudice. I don't need to do better but you do.

[@T-41]

The Wright Brothers lived in Dayton, Ohio. They traveled four times to Kittyhawk , NC 1900-1903 by train and boat to do their early flight testing.

[@CallmeJeffy1]

I.e. Ohio 100% earned the claim of inve ting flight. Kitty hawk was nothing more than a test area.

[@ayrplanes]

I think it was where not who that was the point.

[@duffydobelbower6137]

In 2003, this debate ended: Congress officially declared Ohio as the birthplace of aviation. The Wright Brothers built the aircraft here, and took it to North Carolina because the winds at Kittyhawk would make it easier to get the aircraft off the ground. So the video is wrong. Ohio invented aviation. North Carolina was where it was tested, not invented. Reference: www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CREC-2003-06-11/html/CREC-2003-06-11-pt1-PgH5243-3.htm

[@DodoLord12]

But the first flight part is untrue. The first flight lasted 23 seconds and it occurred at Huffman prairie outside of Dayton

[@tinatrachsel3088]

I’m from Oregon and Nike shoes were invented here! The Phillips head screwdriver, The corn dog, tater tots, Plywood and Marion Berries. That’s all I can think of for now our beautiful country has contributed so much to the world to better everyone’s day to day lives I am grateful and proud to be American 🇺🇸.

[@OverlordIcy]

Yo, thanks for the dogs and tots. xD

[@monicapdx]

And computer mouse! US version of Maraschino cherries, Tillamook cheese, Pendleton blankets, hacky sacks and Erector sets.

[@goldenseal50]

Don't forget the crisp meat burrito lol

[@davidstephan5116]

Nike isn’t an invention, it’s a brand of shoe

[@badladyami]

At least Oregon didn't invent the OTHER Marion Barry.

[@bryceerickson1568]

Washington state. A guy from yakima, WA invented the bread bag closer out of his old credit card on an airplane. It is a square piece of plastic that holds the bag closed and keeps the air out of your food. The square with a hole in one side holds the loose bag tight.

[@potatos_4_free]

Twist tie guy most affected

[@Leola-yk4oq]

I lived in Yakima 40 years ago.

[@carolblack4098]

Im from Texas. Inventions include... Frozen margarita - Invented in 1971 by Mariano Martinez in Dallas, Texas. Liquid Paper - Invented in the 1950s by Bette Graham, a typist in Texas. Ruby Red Grapefruit - A hybrid of a pomelo and a sweet orange. Silicone breast implants - Developed in Texas by Gerow and Cronin. Fajitas - Developed in Texas by ranchers who wanted to add their own twists to traditional Mexican food. Whole Foods Market - Founded in Austin, Texas. Blue Bell - The company changed its name to Blue Bell Creameries in 1930 after the native Texas bluebell wildflower. Shiner beer - Texas is the birthplace of Shiner Bock, a German-Style beer that is popular in the Lone Star state. Ballpark nachos - The first iteration of ballpark nachos was created in 1976 by Frank Liberto and served at Arlington Stadium in Texas. Calculators that Fit in Your Hand. Selective Laser Sintering, or 3-D Printing. Dell Computers. The Integrated Circuit. Dr. Pepper. Fritos corn chips. Just to name a few...

[@secretsquirrelgames]

I love that the video talks about the invention of roller blades while showing roller skates, not roller blades. /sigh

[@potatos_4_free]

Yea lmao, wtf

[@redshed2020]

Right?

[@tiffanymichaels2429]

Not even the best invention to come out of Minnesota. I felt like a lot of states were robbed in this list. So many great things came out of so many places and you stick cheese burger on the list, seriously?

[@marytramp5678]

@@oliveapple roller skates had 4 wheels 2 in the front & back, roller blades have 3-5 wheels but usually 4 in the center. the roller skates have a thicker and smaller wheel while the roller blade has a narrower and larger wheel. And back when i was a kid there was a skate that had metal wheels that you placed over your shoes and was adjustable to the size of your feet. these were Not allowed in the roller rinks but were alot of fun on sidewalks and concrete. Btw, roller skates are Not old, and has seen a 800% increase in popularity since covid. so maybe you need to catch up with the times. I realize you were being a smart a$$ but really.... not everything that is old is out of date.

[@marytramp5678]

@@oliveapple I replied to your sacastic remark "wait, i men what are roller skates? they must be old." i actuall replied to the younger people not so much you because like i said i knew you were being sarcastic. But the younger people actually don't know what roller skates are, just like they don't know what a rotary phone is. just like i mentioned as well. guess you tried to speed read, or your reading comprehension skills stink.

[@oougahersharr]

Before the invention of the National Park, "non native Americans" were permitted to go and destroy whatever land they came across. The inventor basically persuaded government to create a zone of land that preserves nature and wildlife. Thus the National Park. And I'd say it's one of the most valuable inventions ever.

[@marklar7551]

It's why photography developed where it did too

[@zachosborne6577]

You can thank Teddy Roosevelt.

[@kurtsandstrom5716]

As an Ohioan, I have a problem with NC getting the nod for the airplane. It was built in the Wright Brothers Dayton bicycle shop and transported to Killdevil Hill .

[@jimgreen5788]

@@zachosborne6577 , though TR can be thanked for his part in the "invention", but the real credit needs to go to John Muir, as he repeatedly took presidents and other influential people to many iconic places. Decades later, Roosevelt went on some of the visits, and finally got on Congress to start setting these places aside.

[@vcrossCelticfc]

Perhaps read the story of Yellowstone National Park, you decimated it and changed beyond recognition. The Indians understood how to utilise the land, they understood how to life off the land without destroying it.

[@jhranderson]

Other cool inventions from Washington State: the Backpack, Bread Clips, Pickleball, and the Bass Guitar.

[@StevenMadison-j4n]

We also gave the world teriyaki sauce.

[@tomjohnson5032]

New subscriber. I can't stop watching your videos and I love them. Keep it up. From the USA, great work mate!

[@Our_Darkest_Knight]

18:20 - Lew, you gotta know that, regardless of its destructive properties...the Nuke was a tee-total awesome invention. And, unpopular opinion, it did help stop a World War in its tracks.

[@beesnort3163]

Just some from my state of Michigan. Breakfast cereal, fiber optics, hospital beds, video games, synthetic penicillin, baby food, as as mentioned the assembly line (used in nearly every company today). Also not an “invention” per se, but MOTOWN. Michael Jackson, Aretha Franklin, on and on and on. ❤

[@robtheroadie2240]

Motown is an invention. Before there was Motown, there was no Motown. Somebody had to invent it.

[@beesnort3163]

@@robtheroadie2240 Barry Gordy. Yes I am well versed.

[@elishavarivka8923]

Yes Kelloggs!!!

[@elishavarivka8923]

Love Motown!!!

[@davidstephan5116]

Wasn’t the drive-by also invented in Flint?

[@Shadeecarm]

I’m originally from Indiana (I just moved to Arizona one month ago). Well, Indiana is also responsible for crest toothpaste, fuel pump (which then allowed for gas power vehicles), stainless steel, Prozac, the Gatling gun, wonder bread, converse chuck taylor shoes…the list goes on…washing machine is still my favorite. Feeling homesick! Indiana is a great state and the people are so creative and friendly. One month in Arizona, and I like it, but the people are not nearly as fun or outgoing

[@TheLaceylou92]

Ive lived in Az my entire life and the main reason we arent fun is because its so damn hot! 😂

[@nathanielr2326]

​@TheLaceylou92 Thats exactly what it is lol

[@lauriemartin490]

I'm a very nice Arizonan and I think I'm fairly fun, but I am definitely an introvert. All the heat that makes me stay home, makes me feel better about my introversion.

[@tammajamma]

Welcome to AZ! We are so happy to have you!! Now that summer is over, you’ll see a change in everyone’s personalities. Our winters are pure paradise! Everyone will be outdoors and super social again. Halloween is always the day everyone comes out of hibernation. 😂😂😂 Be ready to make friends and make plans.

[@rjs2433]

Just wanted to say Hello!! I'm from Indiana as well. I'm sad to see you go, but I hope you're doing well down there in Arizona!! I've always wanted to visit Arizona and Texas. How are you liking it there, now that you've been there a little longer since you're original comment?

[@TheBeesies]

Boom Chicka Pop (the popcorn brand) was created in the town I was born in. Their first factory is a building near where my dad currently works. Also, according to her, my old history teacher's great uncle invented steel wool. I'm also surprised that they didn't mention SPAM being invented in Minnesota. I personally don't like it all that much, but people around the world do.

[@michaellowe3665]

The toothbrush was invented in West Virginia. Had it been invented anywhere else, it would be called the teeth brush.

[@ecomtomcat]

IN ConnnectIcut: US Dictionary - Noah Webster (1758-1843) is credited with publishing the first American dictionary, A Compendious Dictionary of the English Language, in 1806. In 1828, he published An American Dictionary of the English Language, which is considered the first serious articulation of American English. Webster's dictionary was innovative for its spelling reform, pronunciation guides, etymologies, and modern word selection and definitions. inventions of CT: The Hamburger invented in New Haven CT by Louis Lassen in 1900, Frisbee, Portable Typewriter, Sewing Machine, Submarine, Polaroid Camera, the Wiffle Ball,

[@OriginalLictre]

I'd give Ohio the credit for the invention of the propeller-driven airplane, since that's where Orville and Wilbur Wright actually did the work of designing and building the Wright Flyer. They went to Kittyhawk North Carolina to test their invention during late winter, because of the reliability of the wind direction and strength during that part of the year. North Carolina does claim the prize for being where the airplane was proven to work, though.

[@claudiaclark6162]

I believe the Motto of Ohio is First in Flight

[@jeremypowell7211]

​@claudiaclark6162 actually that is North Carolina's moto. It's on our license plates

[@claudiaclark6162]

@@jeremypowell7211 I'm not going to tell the people of Ohio that. I'm a Michigander and they are My neighbors. Their plate reads “Birthplace of Aviation Put signs on I 75 say first in flight. The Wright Brothers are from Ohio. I also live in Florida but that doesn't change the fact that I was born and raised In Michigan and My ideas came from them. In Florida we have all kinds of plates The State Motto is In God We Trust

[@jarhead98gaming]

Ohio is one of the biggest states for great inventions! Don’t forget phones invented by Alexander Graham Bell! Also, hot dog chili/coney sauce, roller coasters, rock and roll, etc…

[@willh2261]

Ohio try’s to claim everything the Wright Brothers left because it’s americas asshole, NC is the only birthplace of aviation, Ohio might be the conception place but nobody cares about that

[@mattashworth9744]

In addition to the parking meter, Oklahoma also gets to claim the shopping cart as a local invention, created by Sylvan Goldman in 1936!

[@OkieNative]

Like it was said about Walmart this isn’t really a creation but a business but something else that was made in Oklahoma is Sonic

[@boomhauertalkshow3610]

​@@OkieNativewould argue that its a thing made for business but still a invention

[@penquin402]

And the Yield Sign in Tulsa

[@natebroadus8474]

Considering shopping carts have spread worldwide, it's definitely worth mentioning.

[@Princess_Celestia_]

Auto pilot and pressurized flight suits as well.

[@georgewashing10]

Come on, the Wright brothers invented the airplane in Ohio. Get your own thing, North Carolina.

[@ScarletFury]

Fun fact: Nikola Tesla lived in my hometown of Colorado Springs for a while and did a lot of experimentation on trying to create wireless telegraph technology ^^

[@rochelleesser7961]

18:51 Probably what I use now, since TP makes my skin break out - A dedicated set of washcloths. Yeah, totally old school; hand washing and rinsing them out, and soaking them in a basin of bleach and detergent once I’ve used them up. Totally had zero worries about TP shortages during that whole mess a few years ago, lol

[@michellem9444]

My favorite from THIS list is the air conditioning system. I'm grateful for it every August! BUT, my favorite invention NOT on this list has to be indoor plumbing. The ability to easily flush away stuff you don't want to keep in your house is something that is taken for granted way too much. And there's nothing like a cool shower on a hot day or a warm bath on a cold day.

[@claregale9011]

Plumbing goes back to the romans

[@joshjones6072]

And Rome invented plumbing. They even had a goddess of sewers who I bet they prayed to when the toilet started getting plugged up. Haha

[@melodykubiak5850]

I'm from Minnesota, and I remember when rollerblades were a new thing. They were to help hockey players keep up their skating skills during the off season.

[@trevornekuda3101]

The pic they showed was roller skates not roller blades

[@melodykubiak5850]

@@trevornekuda3101 ~ Oh? I'm not sure what that has to do with my comment. The topic was rollerblades.

[@98talberg]

I am in Minnesota too, back in the early 90"s I worked at a plastics plant that made Roller Blades, my job was putting the rivets in the straps.

[@thesimwarlock]

@@melodykubiak5850 it has everything to do with it if your going to claim an invention don't show a picture of someone else's invention and claim it's yours

[@melodykubiak5850]

@@thesimwarlock ~ huh? Who claimed what? And does it really matter if it's roller blades or skates? My original comment was that I remember when **rollerblades** were a new thing. I never claimed ownership of anything.

[@420GratefulHippie]

@ 14:09 - Those are not Roller Blades in the video. They're Roller Skates. Roller Skates have 4 wheels, 2 in the front and 2 in the back. Roller Blades have it's 4 wheels in a line in the middle. They're also called in-line skates and they resemble Ice Skates which have the single metal blade.

[@sandywich7834]

Also, to answer the question regarding the stoppers, I was taught to flip around so that you're actually travelling backwards when you use them.

[@davidstephan5116]

Plus roller blade riders are more likely to get beaten up by actual men for being weird and feminine

[@triciak.bowers3569]

For my money, the most important invention created here in Texas was the integrated circuit. It was first developed by an employee of Texas Instruments, Jack Kilby, who patented it in 1958. Texas Instruments, commonly known as simply "TI" in Texas, was located in Richardson, Texas (a sizeable suburb of Dallas), and has had a huge impact on computers of all sorts in today's world. It has had a major influence on those of us who were in the industry in the sixties onward. Most of the people who were studying computer science starting in the 70s were taught by at LEAST a few people associated with the company; Kilby was awarded the Nobel Prize for his work in 2000.

[@starrieyedGirl]

I'm from Kentucky and my favorite invention on this list is the Particle Accelerator😅 Well according to my adopted father before Toilet Paper. People used either a red corn cob and a white corn cob to see if ya needed to use the red one again or a Sears & Roebuck catalog. He also recounted a few times he got a paper cut on his back side😅 Keep in mind my father is a ligit boomer and served in the Vietnam Conflict.

[@atlanticantiquesltd7372]

We called it the Vietnam War

[@blanketstarry7725]

Before toilet paper, people used handfuls of gravel, live Chinchillas, rose bush stems, and tightly woven "cloth" made from Poison Ivy, cross-stitched with fibers from the Angel's Trumpet plant. I would say that toilet paper may be the best invention on this list.

[@azury21sameasxbl92]

until the bidet was invented, or cavemen could've used animal skins and washed them in a creek or something.

[@pamelamoore8016]

Before toilet paper ppl used corn cobs and corn silks. Later they began using Sears and Roebuck catalog pages.

[@carolynwoodrow3092]

In my day it was catalogues (you know like Sears & Roebuck.

[@azury21sameasxbl92]

@@pamelamoore8016 I used Sears catalog...for different reasons.

[@Rainy1dae]

😂

[@cinnamonsugarcourtney6073]

Before toilet paper they would use anything really, Corn Husks was very popular for a while, but it would ruin the plumbing if it was thrown into the toilet. It's funny because the way they introduced toilet paper to the market was by having it available in hotels, the people would use it for their tushes and want to have it for themselves afterwards and so it became available in stores. It's because talking about bathroom habits was heavily frowned upon, and no one would willingly say they needed it.

[@kookiekris]

I think you're really cool and you're an "American" at heart.. I would trade places with you in a heartbeat though lol.. I think you'd have a blast here in the US considering how much there is to offer and how much freedom there is.. Can't wait to see your stuff when you do eventually get here!!

[@jimgreen5788]

Lewis, I don't know if you could find this '60s cartoon, but the Jetsons had a robot butler (actually, a maid). At 4:15, the 'face' is a rock that, maybe with a lot of imagination, could appear to be a face. Not cotton, but the cotton gin, which, as he explained, replaced the need to pick out the cotton seeds by hand, and did it a lot faster. There's a big helicopter factory in Wichita (WITCH-uh-taw), Kansas. If you want to look it up, it's spelled Pine Sol. The invention of the light bulb probably took a lot of smoke hanging in the air from people's homes. Over here, before TP, corn cobs and/or magazine pages were used. I'm from Illinois.

[@Todd-z8d]

There's an old saying," you can only fish so long, then it's time to break out the dynamite"

[@lynnshulman]

They used pages out of catalogs or magazines for toilet paper before the invention of modern day toilet rolls. I went to England back in 1973 and I was shocked to see little wax paper sheets in the loo, so happy to get back home for what I'm used to!

[@xzonia1]

I think in the distant past (and still today in many areas of the world), using one's hand to wipe was the easiest thing to do and then just wash your hands afterwards, but in today's world with our understanding of germs, it sure is a gross practice! In the past, using leaves was common, as was wool from sheep woven into strips of cloth that would be washed, hung to dry in the sun, and reused, or old hides from animals could be used. Really, any old cloth / rags too damaged to be used for clothing or blankets any longer were commonly cut up and put to use as wipes as their end-of-life purpose before they were too ruined to continue using and were finally thrown in a fire as kindling. In ancient Rome, sponges from the sea were put on sticks, wetted, and used in the public toilets; they would pay for the use of a sponge, wipe, and hand it back to someone whose job was to rinse it in a bucket and then hand it to the next person needing to wipe (so gross). Once paper was invented, as you said, any old paper or pages ready to be recycled were commonly used how we use toilet paper now. I imagine papyrus was used prior to paper for this purpose, but I've never read of papyrus being used this way, so that's just speculation on my part. Wax paper sheets sound unpleasant! lol. Glad we have nice soft toilet paper these days. :)

[@bobbiehughes1576]

Hi, I don't comment on posts much but I think Colorado deserves better lmao, I've lived here for 18 years and it's funny that the "coolest" invention is a cheeseburger. We've got the Jolly Rancher, Tampons, Root Beer Floats, OtterBox phone cases, Chipotle, Christmas Lights, Crocs, The Wheel Clamp, and more- personally idk how the Cheeseburger made it above Jolly Ranchers😂 Been a viewer of yours for a while and I just wanted to add that I'm a big fan!

[@MexiMik]

Sorry, I still think the cheese burger is the coolest from that list.

[@bobbiehughes1576]

@@MexiMik understandable lmao- but to be fair. Jolly Ranchers.

[@Vanessa-ok3ys]

On behalf of women everywhere, Id like to nominate the tampons 😂

[@bobbiehughes1576]

@@Vanessa-ok3ys FOR REAL 😂😂

[@Kevmaster2000]

Kermit the Frog was invented in Mississippi. And Elvis was born here too.

[@sylviaconlee7407]

Don't forget the Teddy Bear

[@Dragnmastralex]

I thought Elvis was born in Tennessee

[@davidstephan5116]

@@Dragnmastralexno. Tupelo MS

[@miketalley5476]

I was raised in Oklahoma and the shopping cart was invented there. I think the shopping cart is a much more useful invention than the parking meter. That is, unless you get the one with the wonky wheel! LOL

[@penquin402]

The yield sign was invented in Tulsa.

[@madeline5138]

Howdy from Arizona! I was born and raised there, living in Scottsdale, Flagstaff, and other places there, but mainly those two places had the bulk of my time, around a decade for each. The scenery you said you'd love to ride a horse through is Sedona, by the way! It's gorgeous, and if you ever get too hot, go to Oak Creek Canyon not too far from there, the creeks are nice and cool. Some of the cool things I know about Arizona is that the method to determine how old a tree is by its rings was invented in Arizona, and Pluto was discovered in the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff. For the longest time (not sure if its true anymore), but Flagstaff was the darkest city in all of the United States which I guess made it easier for Pluto to be discovered. Love the videos, and if you ever come to Arizona, go in the spring time, its easily the most gorgeous time of the year! Lots of love!

[@sweisbrod6109]

I'm from Ohio. The Wright brother's invented the airplane. John Glenn was the first American to orbit the earth. John Glenn was from Ohio. Niel Armstrong was the first man to step on the moon. He was from Ohio too. It shows that people will do almost anything to get out of Ohio. 😅

[@Dragnmastralex]

I'll share that sentiment when the first person on Mars is from Ohio

[@MrDaggett59]

Cash register and the electric starter also from Ohio

[@CallmeJeffy1]

Ohio is the best, idk why people don't really see it that way. Ohio has been extremely important in global advancements.

[@1991windsor]

​@chazmichaelmichaels88 i agree! I love Ohio!❤

[@michellelarsen5399]

I’m from Maine - we also invented ear muffs! Massachusetts is also where basketball was invented. I’m thinking that is better than Facebook.

[@jamestaylor3805]

McDonald's frozen french fried potatoes are thanks to McCains, Aroostook farmers and some local investors.

[@SamIamIam]

Basketball is Canadian, the inventor is Canadian and moved to USA.

[@dianebuckwalter9908]

I’m from Pennsylvania, but I was disappointed that peanut butter wasn’t mentioned for Georgia. George Washington Carver was an black inventor who came up with all kinds of products you could make with peanuts to give more opportunities to share croppers. His most famous invention was peanut butter.

[@mrmoofle]

Carver didn't invent peanut butter. He did a lot of stuff with peanuts, but pb wasn't one of them.

[@shantel903]

That was just a lie that your elementary school taught you

[@N1K0MAC15]

peanut butter is VERY american. not popular anywhere else

[@PaulGraves-lw9qr]

Wow made like over 200 uses for the peanut and peanut butter was not one that was the first thing they taught us about carver

[@dianebuckwalter9908]

Sorry for the misinformation. Elementary school for me was almost 50 years ago.😀

[@yourfreakingrayofsunshine]

I live in Ohio, and the key ignition starter motor was invented in mt. Orab ohio. you know, that thing that makes cars start up without a manual crank..

[@DorianMLayne]

I have to say you brighten my day. This one I laughed out loud a lot. The toilet paper dude. You’re hilarious! Thanks!

[@joehackney1376]

The cotton gin (meaning engine) allowed the large scale growing of cotton fiber, causing the need for cheap labor to pick it, which caused the Southern States to rely on Slaves, which caused the American Civil War, which caused Britain to side with the Confederacy as their production of clothes and cloth relied on Southern Cotton, which caused hard feelings between America and Britain for several years.

[@retro331]

I always took it as it removed the need of slaves to pick the seeds out, guess it would just cause them to be in the field more

[@virginiaoflaherty2983]

Thank you for filling in the missing part of the cotton gin. At the same .time the cotton gin was invented slavery was in the process of dying out . After the cotton gin, the deep south states really got into cotton production. So vast numbers of people were sold "down the river" from VS MD DE KY NC into GA, AL, MS, TX, SC FL slavery persisted for 65 more years.

[@joehackney1376]

@@virginiaoflaherty2983Also, the cotton grew on land that was also useless for any other crops.

[@michaelgoing6695]

I Live in Nebraska and we have a nice list of inventions from our state. 1. The Reuben sandwich. 2. Vice grips. 3. butter brickle ice cream. 4. Frozen TV dinners. 5, Cliffs Notes. 6. The McRib sandwich. There are also some food items such as Dorathy Lynch salad dressing and a BIG ONE, Kool Aid. Love watching your reactions.

[@RobWenzel84]

Butter Brickle ice cream, I can't thank you all enough for that YUMMMM 🍦🍦🍦

[@trinhedman8854]

My question is, why do we have Kool-Aid in our travelers guides and history books, but not ski lifts? Also, my favorite is Runza.

[@CallmeJeffy1]

My wife is from Nebraska and we've had this debate, the reuben did not come from Nebraska. You folks didn't even get German settlers until long after they arrived in the east coast. Germans had been making corned beef/sauerkraut sandwiches for at least 200 years before NE. Also, the cornhuskers don't belong in the big ten.

[@davidstephan5116]

Kool Aid got big worldwide in the late 70’s when it was voted as Guyanas official drink in South America 😀

[@davidstephan5116]

Too soon?

[@jarhead98gaming]

Ohio is one of the biggest states for great inventions! Don’t forget phones invented by Alexander Graham Bell in Cincinnati! Airplanes, hot dog chili/coney sauce, roller coasters, rock and roll, etc…

[@TheRootedWord]

18:00 the cotton gin was part of a set of industrial technologies that gave rise to computers: The flying shuttle, the spinning jenny, the cotton gin, and more were all developed to meet the increased demand for textiles, as was an invention that was the origin of weaving computing machines: the Jacquard loom. Invented by Joseph Marie Jacquard, the Jacquard loom sped the process of weaving complex textiles like brocade, damask, and matelasse, allowing factory owners to increase their profit margins and scale up the industry. This was accomplished by translating complex weaving instructions into punched cards, laced together into a sequence that gave the loom instructions for raising and lowering warp threads. This “language” of weaving was an early form of binary, the language of 1s and 0s that still drive computing today.

[@WinsomeWinslet]

From Oklahoma here - surprised he didn't mention the electric guitar, shopping carts and the pressurized flight suits for our best inventions. Who cares about the parking meter? LOL

[@Perfectly_Cromulent351]

The obvious answer for California should have been the “high five”. It was invented at Dodger Stadium in 1977 by players Dusty Baker and Glenn Burke. Also, skateboarding.

[@pinktastic6159]

Dude, I was expecting them to say puka shell necklaces, but maybe that's Hawai'i...

[@edmundooliver7584]

frisbee,hula hoop, slip and slide, hot wheels, electric guitar, internet mickey mouse, egg McMuffin, Levi's jeans, cobb salad, ice pops, Martini, MAI tal, jack cheese and many more to numerous to mumerate.

[@angiegaffke4451]

Minnesota also invented the toaster as well as two great outdoor sports water skiing and the snowmobile.

[@beccaborowske2503]

And the bundt pan. I like how we got Rollerblades, but they showed skates

[@davidstephan5116]

Water skiing and cruising around on a snowmobile are not “sports” they’re activities

[@turgonyurgon]

I live in North Carolina, and a few years ago our state was actually sued by Ohio for having "first in flight" on our license plates(incase you didn't know, each state has a different design for their license plates). The reason we had that on our license plates was due to the fact that the Wright Brother's tested and flew the first plane here, but they were originally from Ohio. But here's the thing, we've had "first in flight" on our plates since 1982. So Ohio randomly ,after 3 decades of us having those words on our plates, decided that they didn't like that anymore and sued us for the "right" to have those words on a license plate. Ever since then I've thought of the Ohio Government as petty.

[@ThisIsMyRealName]

Ironically Ohio has "Birthplace of Aviation" and "The Leader in Flight" on their plates. Showing both the Wright Brothers plane and the Space shuttle.

[@trevornekuda3101]

And yet kansas was earlier with the helicopter

[@alhilde393]

​@@trevornekuda31011903 the Wright Brothers, then 1907 Breguet Brothers with the helicopter.

[@davidstephan5116]

I seen a caveman try to fly with feathered wings. There’s a documentary called The Flintstones

[@SharonElizabethWhitfield]

The Wright brothers may have been from Ohio but they first flew their plane in North Carolina. So North Carolina is FIRST IN FLIGHT!

[@TheRootedWord]

16:50 In 2010 and he was a Brit!!! Jimi Heselden, the British multi-millionaire who scooped up Segway in January, died after he apparently drove one of the company's two-wheeled scooters off a cliff and into a river. He was 62.

[@y2ksda]

"You don't have to go any further..." 😂😂😂 great line...

[@DaisukeFlamedramon]

They missed a very important one. Utah/California invented the internet. You're welcome everyone.

[@LoveyK]

Nope, Tim Berners-Lee “invented” the World Wide Web & hypertext at CERN.

[@cesarvazquez1180]

​@@LoveyKThe world wide web is only one part of the Internet.

[@LoveyK]

@@cesarvazquez1180 I was addressing the claim that the internet was invented in Utah/California.

[@cesarvazquez1180]

@@LoveyK You are correct in saying that Tim Berners-Lee invented the world wide web in 1989, but the internet was invented before that. The first message to be sent over the "internet" was between UCLA and Stanford University (both in California) in 1969 as part of the ARPANET, the precursor to the modern internet.

[@janiegoodman6301]

Kentucky I agree with him

[@UserHorologium]

I grew up in Florida, and air conditioning is absolutely essential to this state, now the third most populous state. At the beginning of the 20th century, Florida was the least populous state in the south, and one of the least populous in the entire country. In the 1900 election, Florida had only four electoral votes, far below powerhouses like Maine (6) and Kansas (10). Without A/C, Florida would continued to be relatively empty, because it is oppressively hot and humid during the summer. For most Europeans, A/C is dismissed as an ostentatious luxury, but no European country has a climate like Florida.

[@DarkKnight52365]

its absolute torture when your AC breaks in the middle of summer

[@UserHorologium]

@@DarkKnight52365 When I lived in Jacksonville, our A/C broke on the fourth of July. The company that held the repair contract for our home was out *that* *day* to repair it. (we were in the second story of what we later discovered was an uninsulated house, and it quickly rose to over 90 degrees without the A/C).

[@BrookePS23]

I’m from Idaho and I’ve never known anyone to fish with explosives! 🙄 But I do live about 45 mins away from the place where the TV was first thought of! 😂 I don’t think we like to brag too much about our state because we want to keep it low key so we don’t have a ton of people wanting to start moving here! Even tho we’re starting to see just that. ☹️ We have some of the most amazing scenery and we are within a couple of hours driving distance to Island Park, West Yellowstone, Jackson Hole, Sun Valley and so much more of Gods most beautiful country ever created! 🤦🏻‍♀️ Um… JK, Idaho sucks! Nobody would want to live here!! YUCK it’s just all potatoes!! 👍🏼 I promise!! 😂

[@Iroc_199]

Uhhhh.... yeah idaho is a horrible place to live.. you should tell everyone you know to NEVER move to idaho.. Please... tell everyone.

[@dakotalynde1913]

I'm from Idaho but living in Texas now. The fishing with bombs thing made me laugh. I never fished with bombs but we did have fun making homemade bombs to blow things up. So the blowing things up part is still pretty spot on. Now on Idaho sucking. Yeah I mean I miss Boise because I grew up there and my family is there but it's just too expensive for me to come back and live. I will come back and visit and see the mountains and snow but living there isn't an option anymore for me

[@LJBSullivan]

Idaho is beautiful since lots more remote jobs you'll probably see more people moving there.

[@jordanpalmer1657]

Love Idaho but just because the tv was thought of there doesn't count it as where it was invented. It was invented in Utah.

[@pyronuke4768]

​@@jordanpalmer1657well Mormonism was established in New York, so therefore Utah can't claim it as their own religion.

[@kmed29]

I’ve heard the toothbrush was invented in Kentucky, which makes sense. If it had been invented anywhere else, we’d know it as a “teeth” brush 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@cynthiamgrooms8195]

Our childhood dentist used to give us long strips of “Dots”!!! White paper about the width of receipts was used, and little colored dots of sugar(mixed with water & who knows what else!), a bit bigger than a ladybug, was in rows, that would have a certain amount of one color, before it changed to another. We were Forever eating the paper as well, bc of the dots sticking so well!!! These could also be bought at our local hardware store that had a what Was a big display of mostly penny to nickel candles, which was actually a better assortment than the drug store a few businesses down, where we got The Best milkshakes, root beer or ginger ale floats, fried bologna & cheese sandwiches, & The Best chicken salad sandwich & Ham salad sandwiches, for Less than a large order of French fries from McDonald’s today!!! Of course they did hot dogs & hamburgers that were Sooo good as well!!! When I’d go visit my Grandparents for the summers, I’d go to the office downtown, & my brother stayed home with my Grandfather doing tons of things,& we’d travel-Everywhere we went, I ordered hamburgers or cheeseburgers, & they Always came with Coleslaw🤢on the side, even with FF or chips-I couldn’t have a milkshake unless I ate Half of it🤢, but out of desperation, I tried it with my burger that I only put mustard on, as I wasn’t a fan of ketchup on Anything other than FF back when. It was Actually Really good,& I will Still do that on occasions today, as a “Craving item”!!! I liked mustard with my chips & potato sticks, which people didn’t “get” until they tried it, & now people put mustard on cold & hot pretzels as well!!! There was no such thing as weary accessibility to salsa, unless you went to a Specialty shop, or International store, which we had both, being outside a capital city, & it was Gross back when!!! The food choices & even accessibility of fruits & veggies was Much more seasonal than it is, with just a Few exceptions to what Isn’t available year round today, like Blood Oranges that if they existed back when, we sure as heck didn’t know about them!!! Fresh spices didn’t exist, but for garlic, unless you grew them yourself, & even That was limited, as well as dried ones!!! Today, you can get about Anything without having to leave your home!!! It’s such a Wonderful Food time, & so much bigger than Julia Childs, or The Galloping Gourmet, that came on UHS channels, only daytimes during the week!!!

[@kentodell7291]

I’m telling you right now that North Carolina’s contribution to flight is providing a beach and wind!! All research, all development, all construction was performed at a small bicycle shop in Dayton, Ohio by the Wright brothers who LIVED in Dayton! They also invented the wind tunnel in the same shop in order to test the aerodynamics of their designs. They spent several years testing different designs trying to figure it out. NONE of this was done in North Carolina! In fact, the shop still stands and is a national landmark. Honest to God, N Carolina’s total contribution to flight was wind and flat area. Another fun little thing created in Ohio is Calvin and Hobbs.

[@CallmeJeffy1]

100% agree! NC provided consistent winds and no brutal winters, aside from that, useless in terms of the development of lighter than air craft. O-H baby!

[@dagulfodinson1712]

Texas, we invented Dr. Pepper, the frozen margarita, the Hamburger, 3D printing, breast implants, nachos, Dell computers, the integrated circuit, Fritos, liquid paper, and a bunch of other things that I forgot. We didnt even make it on his list.

[@ecomtomcat]

The Hamburger was invented in New Haven CT by Louis Lassen in 1900.

[@davidstephan5116]

Dell computers are just another brand. The first computer was made in Iowa

[@ThatoneGuy-zd4rl]

And people really be talking about how America hasn’t given the world anything. Mf we are the world - no cap.

[@ginnyjollykidd]

Off topic, but I have a reaction idea for you: John Philip Sousa, dubbed the March King for his beautiful repertoire of military marches. One I'd like to recommend is "The Black Horse Troup March," one I feel is very underrated. Another march I love is by John Williams (wrote _Star Wars_ movie music and music for many movies, including the Harry Potter movies.) The march is called "Midway March." I would like you to react to these American jewels by celebrated American composers and directors.

[@PaysPark-j3r]

Colorado actually has a lot more inventions than adding cheese to a hamburger. We also have the teddy bear, shredded wheat cereal, sign language gloves, jolly ranchers, root beer floats, crocs, multi-axis chairs, the one-handed can opener, wheel clamps, chipotle got started here, Coors beer, outdoor christmas lights, tampons, juvie, 3d printing, stetson hats, the inhalable Measels vaccine, smashburgers, tivo, the adhesive on sticky notes, dry fog machines, lasers, map quest, those snap-button shirts, the first ever rodeo was here, mountain submarines, recyclable cans, and the otterbox phone case.

[@-EchoesIntoEternity-]

just cotton? he says as he is wearing a cotton shirt 🙄

[@FourFish47]

It was actually the machine that separates the seeds from the cotton, not just the cotton. 😉

[@rochelleesser7961]

9:28 Haha, that’s hilarious! I’m originally from Southern California but got the hell out of there five years ago to the paradise I enjoy here in Idaho. So I’m still learning about my new home state, but I imagine the whole thing with fishing and explosives are meant to be humorous exaggerations of stereotypes about how rugged many Idahoans are. I refer to myself as a, “golden potato” - a melding between California’s, “The Golden State” and Idaho’s, “Famous Potatoes” on standard vehicle license plates, lol

[@gunengineering1338]

I hear you about paying for every little thing. I had and addressed that problem by buying rural land in Alaska and building a self-sustainable homestead. It was very tough at first but now i can go for weeks or even months without having to leave my house and my bills are almost nonexistent. So there ARE ways to get away from all these expenses if you are willing to think it through and put in the work.

[@ginnyjollykidd]

I'm from Kentucky, and there are a few food inventions that deserve mention: The Hot Brown This is a chicken and cheese invention in Louisville. I can't stand it, but so many people love it. It deserves mention. Another honorable invention is the Louisville Rolled Oyster: Oysters are rolled into a ball stuck together by a flour and liquid paste and deep fried. Invented by a guy named Mazzonii. Used to have a bar where they were served with beer.

[@rubytroxtle1366]

Dippin' Dots

[@Elizabeth912-v6o]

@1:18 we don't need Butlers in the United States because we have learned we can just tie ropes to our refrigerator handles and train our dogs to bring us beer!!!!!!😝🥰

[@D2SProductions]

Before the electric light bulb there were also oil lamps, not just candles. Oil lamps have an adjustable wick so you can make the flame brighter. Some homes even used gas lighting, but I'd imaging that was probably primarily for the rich, but I'm not 100% sure of that, I just remember seeing some old movies where someone turned a valve and ignite a gas light in the hallway of their mansion. Street lights were also gas operated back then as well, they had people called Lamp Lighters who would walk up and down each street lighting the gas lamps at night. I'm pretty sure they did that in Europe as well. I don't know what people in Europe used before toilet paper, but I've heard my grandmother talk about using corn cobs. Corn on the cob, after you ate the corn off of the cob you'd save that for use in the outhouse (outside toilet that has no running water, just a little shelter built over a hole in the ground), there are still places that have outhouses, like in and around Amish country, though today they would use toilet paper, but before toilet paper they used corn cobs. The interesting thing is Windows wasn't invented by Microsoft it was stolen initially by Steve Jobs from the Xerox company, and then Bill Gates stole it from Steve Jobs, but it was actually Xerox (the copier company) that invented Widows, though I don't know what they called it back then, but it was an operating system just like Windows or MacOS, but Steve Jobs and Bill Gates stole it from Xerox, there's a movie about it, I think the movie is titled Pirates of Silicon Valley.

[@parrisnia72]

As a New Jerseyan, I didn't know Edison made his invention in Menlo Park, NJ, but that makes sense that Menlo Park mall is in Edison, NJ lol. My favorite mall ❤

[@kyrataylor2035]

Missouri: Besides the waffle cone, add iced tea and the peanut butter-making machine to products introduced at the 1904 St. Louis world's fair. Other products created in Missouri include 7-Up (in St. Charles), Aunt Jemima pancake mix (St. Joseph), Tums (St. Louis), and Gooey Butter Cake, born accidentally by adding too much butter. Also, Jack Kilby, inventor of the microchip, was born in MO.

[@mariaeisenhardt2296]

Louisiana- the Higgins boat, the boat the marines use to land soldiers on beaches. The front end drops down to allow the soldiers to run of the landing crafts

[@lindadianesmith6013]

A ski lift is a mechanism for transporting skiers up a hill. The first ski lift was built in 1908 by German Robert Winterhalderin Schollach/Eisenbach, Hochschwarzwald. Inspired by the conveyor systems used to transport bananas onto cargo ships, Nebraskan engineer James Curran invented the design for the ski chairlift back in 1936. The first chairlifts were installed at a ski resort in Sun Valley, Idaho

[@betaviewer-e9s]

Sound on film was actually invented in Illinois. Also, the internet browser, the zipper, the cellphone, vacuum cleaner, dishwasher, barbed wire, the pill, the blood bank, computer assisted learning.

[@coope42]

The stopper on the front of roller blades isnt meant to slow you down, they are meant to keep you still while you are trying to stand still. There are inline roller blades with rubber stoppers on the back which are able to be used to slow you down.

[@tomcarter9505]

On September 26, 2010, Jim Heselden, 62, fell more than 42 feet from a footpath above the River Wharfe in West Yorkshire, England. He was riding an all-terrain Segway x2 model around his estate in Thorp Arch, Boston Spa. His body and the Segway were found in the river. The coroner ruled the death an accident.

[@amandacline8108]

Dude you totally need to visit Atlanta Georgia and the World of Coke. It’s a really cool museum and you can can that test all kinds of flavors or coke from around the world.

[@Dragnmastralex]

you can build your own primative AC by putting ice into a cooler covering it with salt, and then placing a fan over the top to blow the air that comes out of it around. will last about 2 hours on a full 4.5 kg cooler. so you will have to make about 4 to 5 trays of ice in your freezer which should be frozen in that 2 hour time so you keep refilling it and it will cool your room down a lot.