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Originally Posted by zeitghost
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Read it while you can. The Americans write history now, and in their history they are always first.
The first powered flight we all know about I take it: Pearse in NZ a year before the Wright brothers, who did the first heavier-than-air powered
photographed flight (actually not strictly self-powered because it needed a strong headwind to take off).
They also claim to have invented television, the first computer, the first commercial nuclear power station; all of which were actually done in Britain first. The Americans do this essentially by ignoring the rest of the world, assuming that the US was first, finding the first US date, and claiming that as the world's first date.
They did that in 1984 when Sally Ride became the first American woman astrinaut: just blithely called in Congress to celebrate another "first" for America, until it was pointed out that it simply wasn't so.
I mind all this because our children too will grow up learning that America is first in everything.
The Woz...
That's American. We say valves.
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