'The Web was invented by the British but exported to the US...We don't want that to happen again.'

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Sun May 21 17:08:48 PDT 2000


Mark Jones wrote:


>Now that you mention it, Brits invented not just the web; there is also:
>computers, radar, jet engines, antibiotics, DNA + cloning, central banks

The Bank of Sweden - Sveriges Riksbank - is older. The B of E was founded in 1694; the SR in 1668.


>(OK, the Scots), the steam engine, the power loom, television and a few
>other things besides.

Gosh, no wonder they call it Great Britain. Why'd the USA take the lead in developing and producing almost all the inventions you list?

Doug



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