John
>Hi Tom,
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>Exactly! I know that Walter does not speak for his country and that was the point I was making.
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>As to anything we did in the 19th century being inferior to Europe, say what? Either you misspoke or I'm dense because I can think of many areas of technology that we were the world leaders in during the 19th century. Electrical power generation, the telephone, cables, steam engines....OTOH, the leading theorists of that era were European, I would agree.
Where did you get steam engines from? They were invented in Britain, drove the "Industrial Revolution"- Britain was the most industrialised nation in the world.
True, US companies came to GB to sort out and normalise the disparate elec. systems here.
Cables?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4475394.stmYou're forgetting Brunnel?
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