On 03/10/11 23:17, John Hasler wrote: > I wrote: >> The heirs of Herr Siemens might disagree with you on that, not to >> mention Thomson, Faraday, etc. > > Scott writes: >> and Tesla (AC). > > While born in Europe Tesla became a US citizen and did his important > work as such.
Yes - of course. I only watched "The Prestige" the other night - I must be getting very old. Electricity didn't go much of anywhere without AC - I recall Edison tried with DC. Can't remember alternators - would that be Seimens?? I suspect we can credit the USA with the petroleum industry - though it's only "suspect". And geographic/political boundaries don't reliably define much. Cheers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4e89bc21....@gmail.com
