On Mon, 06 Sep 2010 03:00:38 +0100, Eeyore
m wrote:

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.

Neither want anywhere.


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.

What sort of computers does Ferranti make nowadays?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferranti#Collapse


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

With a lot of help from the Poles.

John