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"Jim Wilkins" wrote in message
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Wow, so much loss for these poor guys! Then fame for Fulton rather
than Fitch. That sucks. But we did have some very talented
people
in the USA.


History is full of guy A inventing / discovering something "first"
but guy B is the one who got the publicity. E.G., it is called
"America" because the map maker called it after Americo Vespucci,
for
various reasons.
--
pyotr filipivich
"With Age comes Wisdom. Although far too often, Age travels
alone."


It's often A, B, C and D tinkering with the idea, then E making it
practical after a different advance removes the last stumbling
block. Steam transportation required stronger boilers, airplanes
needed lightweight engines.


Here's a fine example of the protracted development of a promising but
difficult idea into a practical product::
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/60794...-h/60794-h.htm
"The reader has doubtless sensed a certain monotony in this review of
the early typewriter inventions. “It did good work, but it was too
slow,” is the formula which fits nearly all of them; certainly all of
them that were able to write at all."