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ORIGINAL: Edwird
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ORIGINAL: Edwird
We sloughed off George III and his army, that's it. Congratulations to us.
We get a nice holiday out of it.
OH! The flippancy!
Yes of course, the US actually got much more out of it than a 'nice holiday.'
We attracted a good many from the scientific and cultural communities abroad, and then grew a good many of our own in that regard.
Such is the pursuit of evolution.
Actually I have discovered that recently. (years but kinda recently) When I was a kid I had this science encyclopedia I read practically cover to cover, but I skipped over the bios of inventors etc. because I wasn't interested in that. Then I found another copy. (the original was lost in a move) So I went through it again reading the bios of the inventors and innovators and found that many of them were off the boat or their Parents were off the boat.
I also found that many of them lived up in to their eighties and realized that when they say people live longer they are full of shit. By reduced infant mortality and less five year olds dying from the mumps or some shit and less 15 year olds killed in battle, the AVERAGE life expectancy has increased. But in no way does that mean that everyone died at 50 in the past. I discovered another lie in the statistics.
When things were really humping during what might be called the industrial revolution I believe two things attracted them here. First of it was a rapidly expanding country, thus a rapidly expanding market. Another thing, which would be damn hard to research might be the lack of adequate intellectual property laws in the old country.
Researching law is damn hard enough, researching law in places like Poland, Germany, Scotland is something I am not going to even try.
However, I think Germany might have had tight laws about it because of a rumor among the oldtimers in the machining.engineering field. That the diesel engine was actually invented here by White Motors and Rudolf Diesel hopped on over to Germany to beat them to the patent. It establishes prior art. Here, he could not get a patent in his name because the invention was done on company time.
International intellectual property issues are a total mess. Sweden, Israel, Russia, a few other countries just say go fuck off and undercut your market these days. I can't imagine what it was like 150 years ago when shit was really going on.
But it was going on in alot of places, as Farnsworth invented TV here, Baird did about the same thing in England. As Ransom Eli Olds figured out what to do with the waste product gasoline, some people in Europe were doing the same thing. Before them, gasoline was considered a waste product. They used it as a defoliant and when they really meant business lit it. They had oil lights but the fuel was more like diesel fuel or, well, lamp oil which burns more slowly and is less volatile. People did not want gasoline in the house because of the smell.
And look at the Manhattan Project, most of them were spirited away in the middle of the night from other countries. Even now, people get here on H1B visas and that ain't to flip burgers. In fact one I used to correspond with a bit wrote hardware drivers for computers. From Australia. Why did he have to come here to do that ? He probably could have done it from there. I suspect the company he worked for did not want the software written in Austalia.
Now that he came up, his name is Lewin A.R.W. Edwards.. Somewhere I have a copy of his old resume'. He took out some things over the years, among them is that he quit college at 16 to go to work. Quit COLLEGE at 16. Has been self educated on an ad hoc basis ever since.
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