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Read it while you can. The Americans write history now, and in their history they are always first.Originally posted by zeitghost
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.Comment
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I'll give them television, the system devised by Baird was pretty crap. It took the americans to completely reinvent it, ie. nothing apart from the concept was the same as Baird's TVOriginally posted by expat View PostCoffee's for closersComment
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Woz has certainly changed from his days as a celebrity chef.Originally posted by zeitghost View PostComment
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That's for sure, but the American claim is based not on later successful implementations, but on Farnsworth's invention of image production by scanning: the raster, basically. Arguably this was an advance, not an invention, because Nipkow had invented the scanning raster principle in 1884. He used mechanical rather than electronic means, but the principle is the same. Then Zworykin did the same as Farnsworth, and actually designed it. Later Sarnoff of RCA hired Zworykin to ensure RCA owned it. So really we owe television to Russians (add in Popov's aerial for good measure.).Originally posted by Spacecadet View Post
Actually loads of people made separate inventions that went together to produce television. But the Americans just pick their guy and claim they invented it.Comment
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Thermionic valves.Down with racism. Long live miscegenation!Comment
That's American. We say valves.
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