> At 11:31 AM 5/23/01 +0300 Charlie Bell wrote:
> >John wote:
> >> America has always been at the forefront of technological
> >> innovation, and a
> >> great many of the important inventions of the past 200 years were made
> >> here.
> >
> >Like the steam engine, antibiotics, the car, radio, television,
> the internal
> >combustion engine, the machine gun, the jet engine, the
> pneumatic tyre, the
> >bicycle, the mechanical loom, steel and the train?
> >
> >Thanks John. That entire post neatly illustrated exactly what Kat was
> >talking about.
>
> And thank you for proving my point.
>
> You basically presented the following logic:
> "The UK has made a number of important inventions, therfore
> American claims
> to be a leader in technological innovation amount to nothing more than
> arrogant bluster."
Not at all. I was merely demonstrating that of what I regard as the most
important
technological innovations, not one was from the states. And I never
mentioned the UK. Many of the inventions I mentioned weren't from the UK.
Other than the aeroplane, and possibly the internet (although the WWW was
invented in switzerland...), what great technological innovation was from
the states?
No, you can't have the telephone, that was a scot...
Charlie
