Kickstarter 2013 Revisited

[PystCat]

> 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 <richmondmathewson at 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
>> 
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> Richmond.
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