Interesting tid bits

From: Simon Norburn (simon@aard.co.uk)
Date: Sun Apr 10 2005 - 16:14:02 PDT


Electricity - British (Faraday)
The telephone - British (Bell)
The assembly line British - the block (pulley) factory in Portsmouth in the
Napoleonic wars.
Nuclear power British (Calder Hall - Calder Hall was originally opened by
Her Majesty the Queen in 1956. It was the first fully commercial nuclear
power station in the world and it remains the UK’s longest operating nuclear
power station.) Nuclear powered naval ships Jules Verne - Frenchman The
space shuttle American Global Positioning System Soviet & American
independent design Computers British - Bombe & Turing

Still, maybe in a few hundred years more you won't have to claim others
inventions for yourself <g>.

Simon

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