[Jordi]

Same for the telephone. You say it was invented by Graham Bell didn'you? Inventions are not created from cosmic vacuum. Sometimes there are parallel developments ,other times a "new" invention is simply an add-on to older ones. Usually packing up known technologies with improvements is "inventing". If I were a Nazi nostalgic I would say the US-USSR space race of the 60's started with rocket technology stolen from the Nazis,and in the early years the Soviets made a better use of it (remember Sputnik?).

A better measure of technology developments than listing up inventions is how many things you do and at what cost.

[jveritas]

An invention is not an invention until it becomes a reality. The phone is an invention because Bell made it a real device. I have a concept of making a rocket that can reach half the speed of light, this will not make it an invention.

Again, as I said before take your delusion of European greatness somewhere else, and you seem more French to me than German because you have a very twisted logic of arguing points.