From: m35products (m35prod@optonline.net)
Date: Sun Apr 10 2005 - 16:37:00 PDT
Electricity - Franklin ( North American Colonies)
Telephone - Bell (Scottish birth, US Citizen)
Maybe in another one hundred years, you'll be able to get ahold of some
history books.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Simon Norburn" <simon@aard.co.uk>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Sunday, April 10, 2005 7:14 PM
Subject: [MV] Interesting tid bits
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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