Guess who inventions

Neville, yes it is a tough country if one is poor or not able to gain an education but is that not so of most countries? Is it not that possibly people want to believe like Dick Whittington & London that the US is the land of opportunities, yes it is if you have some luck & work hard? Sadly for many they are never able to be realised still as with you I look back at my time there with much pleasure & regard even though I was in a privileged position. It is though the most philanthropic country by a country mile, leaves sadly UK, Europe, Aus et al in the shade. Truly a fine fine attribute of those who make it.
Robert, oh & yes to, "Religion and patriotism are OK in small doses." whoa betide anyone who inadvertently or other wise cast any aspersion as to a US persons patriotism, misguided or not (: Religion there, well never understood even knowing the puritans etc why they are so selectively religious & aggressively so with so many weird Christian denominations which often appear to be just money making bushiness. If you are not a member of a church or church goer you are seen as the very devil hisself ): yes sir you is.

now you have said it Mr Strange. who did invent the walkie talkie?.

A walkie-talkie (more formally known as a handheld transceiver) is a hand-held, portable, two-way radio transceiver. Its development during the Second World War has been variously credited to Donald L. Hings, radio engineer Alfred J. Gross, and engineering teams at Motorola. Similar designs were created for other armed forces, and after the war, walkie-talkies spread to public safety and eventually commercial and jobsite work. Major characteristics include a half-duplex channel (only one radio transmits at a time, though any number can listen) and a "push-to-talk" (PTT) switch that starts transmission. Typical walkie-talkies resemble a telephone handset, possibly slightly larger but still a single unit, with an antenna mounted on the top of the unit. Where a phone's earpiece is only loud enough to be heard by the user, a walkie-talkie's built-in speaker can be heard by the user and those in the user's immediate vicinity

So it was the Americans in Illinois , Sad but true !!!!

When you are discussing the Internet, are you discussing the sharing when a message was sent to a different computer yes it was the US in the 1950,s. Are you talking about packet switching, TCP/ICP Protocols, or the Internet as we know it today? With most inventions there are several people in different countries who are working on the same problems at the same time, and since most are funded by the government are restricted with what they share with each other so there is a lot of confusion who did what and when until the results are declassified.

The World Wide Web

Sir Timothy John "Tim" Berners-Lee, OM, KBE, FRS, FREng, FRSA (born 8 June 1955), also known as "TimBL," is a British computer scientist, best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web. He made a proposal for an information management system in March 1989, and he implemented the first successful communication between a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (http) client and server via the Internet sometime around mid November that year

But he history of the Internet began with the development of electronic computers in the 1950s. The public was first introduced to the concepts that would lead to the Internet when a message was sent over the ARPANet from computer science Professor Leonard Kleinrock's laboratory at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), after the second piece of network equipment was installed at Stanford Research Institute (SRI). Packet switched networks such as ARPANET, Mark I at NPL in the UK, CYCLADES, Merit Network, Tymnet, and Telenet, were developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s using a variety of protocols. The ARPANET in particular led to the development of protocols for internetworking, in which multiple separate networks could be joined together into a network of networks.

In 1982, the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) was standardized, and consequently, the concept of a world-wide network of interconnected TCP/IP networks, called the Internet, was introduced. Access to the ARPANET was expanded in 1981 when the National Science Foundation (NSF) developed the Computer Science Network (CSNET) and again in 1986 when NSFNET provided access to supercomputer sites in the United States from research and education organizations. Commercial Internet service providers (ISPs) began to emerge in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The ARPANET was decommissioned in 1990. The Internet was commercialized in 1995 when NSFNET was decommissioned, removing the last restrictions on the use of the Internet to carry commercial traffic.

So WWW is a British development but the Internet was an American concept

In reply to #41, many countries are difficult to succeed in, not just USA. W are a bit lucky here in Oz as there are still many opportunities still to be explored. However there are times when it becomes easier than at others. Government red tape, particularly with a Labor gov, is often the means of preventing some entreprizing soul from doing well. But if you are willing to have a go and stuff the gov you can still do well. Most of the better successful people are from overseas, many of them appear to b eprepared to go the extra mile to get what they want, and good luck to them.

November 1952 Was asked by the security on the dock gates at Boston USA whether we had Television in England.

Where is Andorra: Link U.S. Shocked Andorra Not In Africa - YouTube


Perhaps they should have asked Pete Seeger where it was. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOCWTRJCnf0

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Where is Andorra: Link U.S. Shocked Andorra Not In Africa - YouTube


Perhaps they should have asked Pete Seeger where it was. Pete Seeger, Andorra - YouTube

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Nothing should surprise us about the average Americans grasp of geography but in a State Department it is unforgiveable. But I have talked to Americans who visit here rather than France or Germany because we speak American.saw a programme recently were a U S Marshall arrested a man who sported a Maori tattoo and when he asked what it was and on being told said 'What the hell is a Maori'
Don't you just love em! Wonder what they will invent next.

Thomas Edison was credited with many inventions , and in reality he had many scientists an thinkers working for him , to improve on inventions of others that did not have patents on their work . and he got credit for all the changes that came out of others work .the USA has gone gun crazy with the stand your ground law that is in most states now , it was during bushes riegn that they made 30 round assault rifles legal . I don't know who needs any kind of gun to protect yourself with , except during war in your own country . I live a few miles from where Travon Martin was killed and its been very quite here, the rest of the country is in an uproar with all the black leaders rabble rousing just to get on TV . have to go now and clean my 50 cal rifle and my 6 hand guns / tarar lads, stay safe .:smashPC: