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To: Brumar89 who wrote (9872)	11/13/2010 6:53:09 PM
From: Jacques Chitte	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 69300

Cool technologies often have independent discoverers. The turbojet was discovered and developed independently by Whittle and Hans von Ohain. I am trying to remember the third guy's name, and Italian who gets partial credit as well. A Russian (Sakharov?) independently found the Teller-Ulam insight that made the thermonuclear bomb possible. That's it for the "top of my head" now. <edit> Regarding the turbo rotisserie idea - it WOULD seem the the Munchies are the stepmother of invention. I am surprised that brewing beer didn't bring with it a technological revolution of its own. The distillation of liquor might be cited as one of the drivers for early chemistry...