At 11:48 PM 5/23/01 -0400, John D. Giorgis wrote:
>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,
Yes. Russians invented potato vodka, but it took an American to come up
with cotton gin . . .
-- Ronn! :)
