a world without belgium
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A WORLD
WITHOUT
BELGIUM
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A WORLD
WITHOUT
BELGIUM
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ANYTHING MISSING?
NO BELGIUM?
SO WHAT?
You might think that very few people would notice any
difference in a Belgiumless world.
We beg to disagree.
CAN YOU NAME ANY
BELGIAN INVENTION?
Need help? Let’s give you a hand...
Perhaps not everyone knows that...
HEALTH CARE
Contraceptive pill
(Ferdinand Peeters, 1961)
Non-direct blood transfusions
(Albert Hustin, 1914)
Body Mass Index
(Adolphe Quetelet, 1830s-1850s)
CARTOGRAPHY
Mercator projection
(Gerardus Mercator, 1569)
IT
Daubechies wavelets JPEG 2000
compression (Ingrid Daubechies, 1988)
The World Wide Web
(Tim Berners-Lee & Robert Cailliau, 1990)
Rijndael cipher Advanced
Encryption Standard
(Vincent Rijmen & Joan Daemen, 1998)
AUTOMOTIVE
INDUSTRY
Parking sensors
(Rudy Beckers, 1987)
Internal combustion engine
(Étienne Lenoir, 1858)
INDUSTRIAL
CHEMISTRY
Asphalt
(Edward de Smedt, 1870)
Soda ash
(Ernest Solvay, 1861)
INDUSTRIAL
CHEMISTRY
Mosquito repellent
(Alfons Van Doninck, 1987)CFCs, aka Freon
(Frédéric Swarts, 1890s)
Bakelite
(Leo Baekeland, 1912)
EDUCATION
Cuisenaire rods
(Georges Cuisenaire, 1931)
Belgian fries
(unknown, 18th century)
FOOD
French fries
(unknown, 18th century)
Praline
(Jean Neuhaus, 1912)
Russian salad
(Lucien Olivier, 1860s)
ARTS
Saxophone
(Adolphe Sax, 1840)
The Adventures of Tintin
(Hergé, 1929)
The Smurfs
(Peyo, 1958)
LET’S TRY AGAIN!
IS ANYTHING MISSING?
YES!
AND THE WORLD
WOULD NOT BE THE
SAME WITHOUT IT!
THANK YOU FOR
YOUR ATTENTION!
Now you can have some Belgian beer!