303 wrote:hate to break it to ya, but neither television nor computers were invented in america, just fyi
Well, all is question of interpretation.
Who discovered America? Native Americans, Leif Erickson or Christopher Columbus? For all practical purposes it was Columbus although he was the only one of the three that never landed on the continent itself.
Did you know that ancient Greeks invented jet engine in the 3rd Century BC and maybe even earlier, but this is the first historical record? It doesn't matter, for all practical purposes it was invented during World War II.
Did you know that is likely that an ancient Roman most likely discovered Aluminum? This is a particularly interesting story related by Pilny the Elder:
One day a goldsmith in Rome was allowed to show the Emperor Tiberius a dinner plate of a new metal. The plate was very light, and almost as bright as silver. The goldsmith told the Emperor that he had made the metal from plain clay. He also assured the Emperor that only he, himself, and the Gods knew how to produce this metal from clay. The Emperor became very interested, and as a financial expert he was also a little concerned. The Emperor felt immediately, however, that all his treasures of gold and silver would decline in value if people started to produce this bright metal of clay. Therefore, instead of giving the goldsmith the regard expected, he ordered him to be beheaded.
We had to wait several centuries before it was rediscovered.
Today people don't get beheaded, they just get ridiculed.