> The Americans have invented very little indeed. > > What the Americans have done is pinched other people's inventions and > improved them immensely, to the extent > that they can fool people they invented the things in the first place.
Examples and/or citations, please. 😘 > Some Americans even think they invented English; which was invented by a load > of vulgar northern Frenchmen > attempting to speak Anglo-Saxon and getting it wrong. Well... Considering the country is only a little over 200 years old, I find this to be just a little too silly to even believe. 😘 (do those smiley emojis come through on this list...?) > On May 11, 2015, at 1:29 PM, Richmond <richmondmathew...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On 11/05/15 17:27, Mark Schonewille wrote: >> Hi, >> >> A quick look-up on Wikipedia: >> >> "Innocenzo Manzetti considered the idea of a telephone as early as 1844, and >> may have made one in 1864, as an enhancement to an automaton built by him in >> 1849." >> >> Why doesn't Italy have 001? >> >> Don't answer that the US invented electricity: it is said that the >> Babylonians did this some time earlier. >> >> -- >> Best regards, >> >> Mark Schonewille >> > > > > > > Richmond. > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
