John Larkin wrote:

Americans invented electronics, invented modern electronics, invented
the vacuum triode, the opamp, the transistor, the IC, semiconductor
RAM, uPs, LEDs, lasers, programmable logic, all sorts of stuff. We
picked the reference designators, because we needed them first.

Just checking, you're wrong about the LED too.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light-e..._early_devices

Electroluminescence was discovered in 1907 by the British experimenter
H. J. Round of Marconi Labs, using a crystal of silicon carbide and a
cat's-whisker detector.[4][5] Russian Oleg Vladimirovich Losev
independently reported on the creation of an LED in 1927.

Just for good measure the first commercial computer was British too.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferranti_Mark_1

The Ferranti Mark 1, also known as the Manchester Electronic Computer in
its sales literature,[1] and thus sometimes called the Manchester
Ferranti, was the world's first commercially available general-purpose
electronic computer.

And who broke the 'unbreakable' German Enigma code ?
http://www.bletchleypark.org.uk/

The USA had to rely on the resulting 'Ultra' signals intelligence for
the duration of WW2.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultra

Did I mention the resonant cavity magnetron btw ?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cavity_magnetron

Graham


Graham


Graham