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- From: lptalbot@tcd.ie (Quark)
- Subject: Re: Linux vs. Win95...Your grammar sucks, Smarty.
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- Date: Fri, 19 Apr 1996 10:17:48 GMT
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- In <3176C385.5EBC7141@lambert.org> Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> writes:
-
-
- >Aleksandar Olujic wrote:
- >] disaac@silk.net wrote:
- >] : In case you ignorant americans forgot, if it weren't for europeans
- >] : like Gugliemo Marconi, you wouldn't have the internet today. You
- >] : wouldn't even have radios.
- >]
- >] Marconi? Marconi? You mean Tesla? But the point is the same:
- >] please (dear americans) name at least one really importrant
- >] invetnor from USA :))
-
- >Not that we can't just take everyone else's by offering them
- >something they want that their own governments won't give them,
- >but most patents everywhere in the world are registered by
- >Americans, even if like Marconi, Tesla, Einstein, etc., they
- >are European expatriates.
-
- >As to your question:
-
- > Alexander Graham Bell Telephone
- > Philo T. Farnsworth Television -Who's this???????
- John Logie Baird(Scotland) invented the Television
- > Thomas Alva Edison Lightbulb, Phonograph,
- > Motion picture
- > Eli Whitney Interchangable parts,
- > Cotton gin
- > Henry Ford Automobile, assembly line
- Ford may have invented the assembly line, but Karl Benz(Germany) invented
- the automobile.
- > Buckminster Fuller Geodesic dome
-
- >Lesseee...
-
- > Transistors, computers, lasers, software,
- > fiber optics, networking, space stations, planetary
- > probes, radio telescopes, peanut butter, potato
- > chips, twinkies, M&M's, ... hmmm, time for a snack
- > break here. 8-).
-
- Alan Turing - British.
- John von Neumann - German.
- Where would your computer be without these?????
-
- > Terry Lambert
- > terry@lambert.org
- >---
- >Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
- >or previous employers.
-