no, I don't there is a lot French have done!
one brilliant masterpiece: SI (you can be proud of) personally I believer, there is no peace and harmony in Europe w/o the friendship and cooperation of French and German and british scientists like Newton, Watt, Joule there are a lot of thing which Europeans should & can do together: ESA, Airbus, the EU of itself! one question to British here, isn't it sick to reject the own people who were honored with the SI Unit names? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Louis JOURDAN" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Wizard of OS" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, July 08, 2002 5:29 PM Subject: Re: [USMA:20881] RE: President Carter > At 13:54 +0200 8/07/2002, Wizard of OS wrote: > >maybe you should add, the car is a european (german) invention > > > >Otto, Diesel and Wankel were germans, what a coincidence > > Right - but Lenoir, who in 1860 made the first 2-stroke engine with > controlled ignition (fed with gas) was a Belgian, Beau de Rochas who > developed in 1862 the theory of the 4-stroke engine was a French... > Otto made the first 4-stroke engine in 1876. And Rudolf Diesel was > born in 1858 in Paris! > > I appreciate you enthousiasm for Germany and German people, but don't > forget that Europe has a common cultural identity since a long time! > > Louis >
