From: Sonny Heath (sonny@defuniak.com)
Date: Sun Apr 10 2005 - 19:41:20 PDT
ROFLMAO
Sonny
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Subject: Re: [MV] Interesting tid bits
> 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.
>
>
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> From: "Simon Norburn" <simon@aard.co.uk>
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> Sent: Sunday, April 10, 2005 7:14 PM
> Subject: [MV] Interesting tid bits
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> 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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