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Do you know where toilet paper was invented? How about the color TV? These and dozens more items are taken for granted by most of us. But where do they originate from, and who invented them?
The United States takes credit for the invention of the internet, but the World Wide Web was the result of brainstorming by British and Belgian scientists at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research.
The concept of a marching military band was started by soldiers of the Ottoman Empire. The earliest definitive records of the military bands go back to the 13th century.
The credit for the modern submarine goes to Irish engineer John Philip Holland. He built a model in the late 1800s that he then sold to the United States Navy.
The modern postal code goes back to the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic in the 1930s. It became the first to extend divided regions of cities into rural areas and assign postal district numbers to them.