Lol - you know, I actually had a line about Babbage, but deleted it, figuring that there was no need to point out the distinction between what the op was referring to and what Babbage actually designed (but never created).
I think the argument could be made that Bell was in America when the telephone was invented - not conceived.
Regarding the lightbulb - toss up in my opinion. Edison built the first functional working model. Again, the difference between concept and function.
Point taken on the auto's, so I'll submit to Benz, but one also has to look at the timeline / functionality of Selden and the Duryea's vs. the first model of Benz.
Actually, the Internet is the one on the list that I had the most doubt about because there was a lot of work in England as well, even though we mostly recognize ArpaNet as the Internet's birth.
Thanks for the reminder to never count on my memory ;)