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To: TigerPaw who wrote (29464)	10/6/2003 10:15:20 PM
From: Karen Lawrence	Read Replies (3) of 62567

Is this true? From Britain...Inventions The automobile The internal combustion engine is usually attributed to Benz, a German. The American inventor was a patent fraud whose claim to have invented the engine was thrown out by the US courts in the Ford case. The sewing machine The first functional sewing machine was invented by the French tailor, Barthelemy Thimonnier, in 1830. There were about 6 previous patents for sewing machines of which the first US one came in at number 5... Electricity (I thought B. Franklin discovered it) Try Faraday, Royal Society, London The light bulb Swan invented the light bulb first and actually filed his patent first to boot. Edison only got a patent because at the time the USPTO did not recognise foreign inventions or prior art. Bar-b-que I don't think you can count that since the Hawaiian islanders were having BBQ before the US was founded, before Westerners had discovered it even. I don't think you can count inventions aquired by conquest. The vaccine "In 1796 English country doctor Edward Jenner found that if a small amount of material was taken from a cow suffering from cowpox and injected into a healthy human child, that child would become immune to smallpox. " [chron.com] - incidentally the term vaccine comes from the Latin for cows. Do Americans wonder what we did before we found them and split up from them? We weren't living in caves. Silly Americans. I think the Americans where misinformed at school again! Doh!

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