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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)
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
Mosquito repellent (Alfons Van Doninck, 1987)
CFCs, aka Freon (Frédéric Swarts, 1890s)
Bakelite (Leo Baekeland, 1912)
Belgian fries (unknown, 18th century)
FOOD
French fries (unknown, 18th century)
Praline (Jean Neuhaus, 1912)
Russian salad (Lucien Olivier, 1860s)