[Paul_Denton]

we are the inventors of just about every sodding invention that has made man's life a little bit better in the last 400 years; we have the finest army in the world, and we have The Bomb; we have an economy that not completely screwed yet; and we have a market and an army that the US must still rely on.

Spaceflight, aircraft, the internet, computers, the automobile, the internet, robotics, nanotechnology, atomic technology (weapons and civil). All invented by Americans.

[DB]

I don't think the automobile was invented in America.

The transistor was. The foundation of modern electronics today.