[Soul of the South]

In addition to the great capitalists, the men who built American list should include the great inventors:

Eli Whitney - Cotton gin and interchangeable parts which made modern manufacturing possible

Robert Fulton - steamboat

Samuel Morse - telegraph and morse code

John Moses Browning - semi-automatic weapons

Samuel Colt - Colt revolver

Cyrus McCormick - The reaper revolutionized agriculture

Charles Goodyear - Vulcanized Rubber

Thomas Edison - Electric lights, motion pictures, recorded sound

Frank W. Woolworth - Mass merchandise retailing

Willis Carrier - Air conditioning

Wright Brothers - Airplane

Philo Farnsworth - Television

Al Gore - the internet (just kidding, I couldn’t resist)

[2001convSVT]

Excellent, shout it far and loud! This is what is needed in America today, that you can be a success! 50 years of socialist indoctrination by the democrats in our government schools have brought us to this point, that many couldn't identify any from your list.