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Originally Posted by epitome
Nice internet rant. You're welcome. We built it. We also discovered a lot of the drugs that save your life. Cars. You're welcome. Electric. You're welcome. Phones. You're welcome. Pretty much everything you use day to day... You're welcome.
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inventor of the WWW - Tim Berners-Lee - English
developer/inventor of Penicillin - Alexander Flemming - Scottish
inventor of the first steam powered vehicle (1672) - Ferdinand Verbiest - Flenders (now Belgium)
What some people define as the first "real" automobile was produced by French Amédée Bollée in 1873, who built self-propelled steam road vehicles to transport groups of passengers.
inventor of first petrol/gasoline engine developed in 1876 by Nikolaus August Otto in Cologne, Germany
In 1600, an English scientist William Gilbert made a careful study of electricity and magnetism - discovering static electricity. This was before Benjamin Franklin sent up a kite into a lightening storm in 1752.
The recognition of electromagnetism, the unity of electric and magnetic phenomena, is due to Hans Christian Ørsted and André-Marie Ampère in 1819-1820; Michael Faraday invented the electric motor in 1821, and Georg Ohm mathematically analysed the electrical circuit in 1827.[13] Electricity and magnetism (and light) were definitively linked by James Clerk Maxwell, in particular in his "On Physical Lines of Force" in 1861 and 1862.
None of these guys were Americans (apart from old Benjamin playing with his kite ;o)
What was next - the phone you say? First patented in 1876 by Alexander Graham Bell - Scottish. He closely beat an American, Elisha Gray (Ohio) to the patent.
It is true however that most americans believe they did everything first.