Following on from the postings of Carl Sorenson, Terry Simpson and Stephen Davis, I am reminded that, as a boy, I was a regular reader of Popular Science. I learned that the inventions that have transformed the world were American. When I went to England I found that no, they were made by Britons. I then visited the Deutsches Museum in M�nchen and learned that most of the modern inventions had been made by Germans. In Paris I found in the Palais de la D�couverte, on the contrary, that the inventions had been made by Frenchmen. I have not visited Russia.
It was commonly said in England in the 1930 "The Japanese are good copiers, but they have no originality". -- Joseph B. Reid 17 Glebe Road West Toronto M5P 1C8 Telephone 416-486-6071
