[Vision2020] Donovan, Canadians ARE Americans!

[Chasuk]

> Light Bulb

Edison perfected the light bulb, he didn't invent it.  That would have
been Frederick de Moleyns, who improved the invention of Humphrey
Davy.  Both were British.

> Electricity
That would have been the Greeks, followed by a slew of Englishmen,
including William Gilbert (who coined the word "electric") and Michael
Faraday.  That doesn't count Italian, Alessandro Volta, who was also
instrumental.  Franklin's contribution belongs largely to folklore,
and was more stunt than science, regardless.

> Computers
That would have been Charles Babbage, Englishman.  And Alan Turing,
also an Englishman.

> Airplanes
The Wright Brothers, Americans, refing the work of Frenchman Octave Chanute.

> Cars
Karl Benz, from Germany.

> The Internet
DARPA invented the Internet (a score for the Americans), but
Englishman Tim Berners-Lee invented the Word Wide Web, which is what
the "Internet" means to most today.

> Microwave
The microwave oven was invented by Americans, from work by James Clerk
Maxwell, who was Scottish, and Heinrich Hertz, who was German.

> Television
Paul Gottlieb Nipkow, German.  John Logie Baird, Scottish.  Léon
Theremin, Russian.

> Freedom from Germany, Twice.
There were a few other particiapnts, as I'm sure you are aware.

Why are you so insecure, that you get this tetchy when someome
criticizes the US?