At 05:47 PM 5/23/01 +0300 Charlie Bell wrote:
>> >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?
>
>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?
Fortuantely, I know that you're not serious. Even you recognized how
insincere your list was by your failure to avoid mentioning the airplane
even in the same message.
I've already listed some of America's ethical achievements in a message to
Kat.
Technologically, there are things like mass production, the motion picture,
the global positioning system, the consumer usable electric light bulb, the
world's most powerful supercomputers.
Agriculturally, there is the cotton gin, the McCormack reaper, and numerous
advances in the Green Revolution.
In medicine, we have developed a host of drugs, cures, and treatments. We
have made life bearable for victims of HIV and inheritors of seasonal
allergies.
I'd go on, but its time for bed......
JDG
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"The point of living in a Republic after all, is that we do not live by
majority rule. We live by laws and a variety of institutions designed
to check each other." -Andrew Sullivan 01/29/01
