Dear Hussein Obama, I was researching your claim that we did not build that, the government did first and I am shocked in how wrong you are.
Ideals by Ideals “how we got to now” on PBS
1. Winepress (invented by farmers)
2. Cheese press (invented by farmers)
3. Printing press (invented by Benjamin Franklin)
4. Need to read, then glasses (education), newspaper
5. Glasses, types of glass, then mirrors, telescope, micro scopes
6. Micro scopes, then science & medicines
7. Science & medicines, then vaccines & medicines <-beginning of government controls and regulation
8. Telescopes, then glasses for far sign and near sight
9. Cameras, then live cameras used for TV
10. NASA, advanced telescope to see stars & moon, Video used in long distance, travel
11. Fiber glass, then laser using fiber, fiber optics
I thought that Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press in 1440, hence the fame of the Gutenberg Bible.
We have Franklin to thank for bifocals, the lightning rod, the Franklin stove, the notion of positive and negative atomic charges, among other things.