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  2. From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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  4. Subject: Re: Linux vs. Win95...Your grammar sucks, Smarty.
  5. Date: Thu, 18 Apr 1996 15:34:45 -0700
  6. Organization: Me
  7. Message-ID: <3176C385.5EBC7141@lambert.org>
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  14.  
  15. Aleksandar Olujic wrote:
  16. ] disaac@silk.net wrote:
  17. ] : In case you ignorant americans forgot, if it weren't for europeans
  18. ] : like Gugliemo Marconi, you wouldn't have the internet today. You
  19. ] : wouldn't even have radios.
  20. ] 
  21. ]         Marconi? Marconi? You mean Tesla? But the point is the same:
  22. ]         please (dear americans) name at least one really importrant
  23. ]         invetnor from USA :))
  24.  
  25. Not that we can't just take everyone else's by offering them
  26. something they want that their own governments won't give them,
  27. but most patents everywhere in the world are registered by
  28. Americans, even if like Marconi, Tesla, Einstein, etc., they
  29. are European expatriates.
  30.  
  31. As to your question:
  32.  
  33.     Alexander Graham Bell        Telephone
  34.     Philo T. Farnsworth        Television
  35.     Thomas Alva Edison        Lightbulb, Phonograph,
  36.                     Motion picture
  37.     Eli Whitney            Interchangable parts,
  38.                     Cotton gin
  39.     Henry Ford            Automobile, assembly line
  40.     Buckminster Fuller        Geodesic dome
  41.  
  42. Lesseee...
  43.  
  44.     Transistors, computers, lasers, software,
  45.     fiber optics, networking, space stations, planetary
  46.     probes, radio telescopes, peanut butter, potato
  47.     chips, twinkies, M&M's, ... hmmm, time for a snack
  48.     break here.  8-).
  49.  
  50.  
  51.                                         Terry Lambert
  52.                                         terry@lambert.org
  53. ---
  54. Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
  55. or previous employers.
  56.