hmm
lets see,
* computers
* supersonic aerodynamics
* packet switching
* radio
* the telephone
... how many other things did we Brits invent only to have the yanks make a fortune off?
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Wed 1 Mar 2006, 13:45,
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* computers
* supersonic aerodynamics
* packet switching
* radio
* the telephone
... how many other things did we Brits invent only to have the yanks make a fortune off?
Well Canada and Australia turned out ok
America just wasn't finished when it was released onto the market
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Wed 1 Mar 2006, 13:51,
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The jet engine
Ground effect cars... hell, pretty much the entire composition of modern high performance vehicles...
And most importantly the chicken Tikka
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Wed 1 Mar 2006, 13:48,
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And most importantly the chicken Tikka
jesus!
I plain forgot it!
I must recind my citizenship and hang myself!
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Wed 1 Mar 2006, 13:50,
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I must recind my citizenship and hang myself!
Masala sauce actually
In the 70's h'apparently
*Curry connoisseur*
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Wed 1 Mar 2006, 13:52,
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*Curry connoisseur*
didn't the germans invent the jet engine
? btw i'm just asking
just found out it was English / German
Dr. Hans von Ohain and Sir Frank Whittle are co-inventors of the jet engine
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Wed 1 Mar 2006, 14:03,
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just found out it was English / German
Dr. Hans von Ohain and Sir Frank Whittle are co-inventors of the jet engine
Aaah the empire!
forgot the other things we invented;
* total war
* concentration camps
* checmical warfare
* biological warface
* internment
But the germans got to make the first two popular ...
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Wed 1 Mar 2006, 13:53,
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* total war
* concentration camps
* checmical warfare
* biological warface
* internment
But the germans got to make the first two popular ...
and bearing grudges/having a chip on the shoulder for hundreds of years
or is that the welsh?
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Wed 1 Mar 2006, 13:50,
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Hmm
the Telephone.
Bell may be credited - although like most Scotchmen he had already abandoned is native Scotchland.
There is more than a little doubt and a suspicion of corruption at the patent office.
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Wed 1 Mar 2006, 13:49,
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Bell may be credited - although like most Scotchmen he had already abandoned is native Scotchland.
There is more than a little doubt and a suspicion of corruption at the patent office.