Do you read the Daily Mail by any chance?
nope
BBC news 24 FTW oh and the intarweb because the intarweb is always right.
sorry my rant is more for comedy value than fact. i do think england sucks though.
there is one thing we are better at though. Engineering. its just a shame engineers are not appreciated in this country....at all.
Mr whittle invented the jet engine, but then didnt patent it, then the UK government handed its development over to rover...way to go.
brunel was the man
we also cracked "super sonic flight" it was british engineers who figured out the tail plane/elevator design needed to control a plane at Mach 1 +. we shared the idea with you yanks, then the government pulled the plug and we got nothing back in return.
concorde anyone? desgined by hand. ok it was a joint effort with the french too, but we did most of the grunt work. i believe the US also tried for a supersonic jet liner...but your bigger is better mentallity got the better of you.
it is possible colt got the idea for a revolver after he visited england. he claimed he got it from the ratchet thingy used on a ship to wind rope. but it is thought he had also seen plans for a gun with rotating chambers while he was here. speculation though.
theres no denying america has produced some great pieces of engineering...but then again its nice when you have the money and the german scientist pinched off the back of WW2, u did have the Jeep though, good job. british government wont pony up for things like you have.
hoover damn is another engineering great...its awesome.
the SR-71 is amazing, but again not possible without whittles jet engine
i still think we are better though, not because we can come up with things you cant. i think presented with a problem we would both be able to engineer a solution. but i would bet on the english solution being far more elegant and simple.
oh yeah, we also invented the internet....thats right. forget the guys name though.
i think america is a great enabler...you dont necessarily come up with all the solutions, but you take that solution from the person who cant afford to implement it, you implement it yourselves and then develop it far beyond the originators dreams.
can some americans chime in with great pieces of engineering (please dont mention rockets etc....you needed stolen german scientists for that, im talkin proper native american ideas/engineering)