America isn't particularly known for its long line of fine engineers...
What are you talking about? The United States has had a long history of great inventors and engineers---how else would the USA have been the great manufacturing nation for much of the twentieth century? Just sitting here I can think of many inventions and developments by engineers in the United States: the cotton gin, Gatling gun, telegraph and telephone, electric light, FM radio,
the computer, and the Internet. It has only been the last twenty-five years or so that industrial production has fallen---due in part to the development of industrial capacity abroad, the fact that the American standard of living is so expensive relative to the rest of the world, and the short-sighted policies of the federal government that have focused on freeing capital to flow abroad and allowing domestic manufacture to collapse.
Yet another evidence that the schools are not teaching history anymore.
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What are you talking about? The United States has had a long history of great inventors and engineers---how else would the USA have been the great manufacturing nation for much of the twentieth century? Just sitting here I can think of many inventions and developments by engineers in the United States: the cotton gin, Gatling gun, telegraph and telephone, electric light, FM radio, the computer, and the Internet. It has only been the last twenty-five years or so that industrial production has fallen---due in part to the development of industrial capacity abroad, the fact that the American standard of living is so expensive relative to the rest of the world, and the short-sighted policies of the federal government that have focused on freeing capital to flow abroad and allowing domestic manufacture to collapse.
Yet another evidence that the schools are not teaching history anymore.