Please consider that electricity-discovered by Ben Franklin, The Lightbulb-phonograph-(Recording technology) and more by Thomas Edison, telegraph (telephone technology) by A G Bell, Airplanes by Wright Brothers, and numerous other inventions that have brought this country to be A GREAT NATION, have been sold and then used by Nations to try to destroy US Presently we have our service men and women dying in Iraq with the threat of Iran closing in on us for Nuclear Technology. As I look at all the hope for good and the world that have come about by our wanting and willingness to share I wonder if we have basically cut our own throats. 9/11 our Aircraft were used against us-isn't it time to ask these other countries to consider the results of sAtAn America in making their country a better place to live. I have not been to the middle ease, I have to wonder if Ben Franklin is given credit for discovering electricity ect, in these countries? Who do they think invented all of these ideas?
2007-01-29 10:50:51 · 7 answers · asked by YippyYahQQ 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Military
sorry,but what about Nikola Tesla!!!???and electricity??' and why do you American s think that everything is always about you,that you are so very important?
2007-01-29 11:05:09 · answer #1 · answered by Josipa D 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Others have done the same. UK and Germany come quickly to mind for tons of innovations. And the technology for most of that stuff isn't the sort of thing to be kept secret. Selling it makes good sense. Some more sensitive technology, by the way, is banned from export.
2007-01-29 11:35:29 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Even though you held these back from the rest of the world, there will always be people who will sell them to others for money. Just look at Britain during the Industrial Revolution.
2007-01-29 11:35:31 · answer #3 · answered by Robert 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If not for Japanese technology, you wouldn't be playing your CD's and DVD's now. If not for Finland's technology, you wouldn't be using any cellular-phone. If not for Germany, there won't be printing-press.
2007-01-29 16:09:09 · answer #4 · answered by roadwarrior 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have been asking that for years?
2007-01-29 11:05:14 · answer #5 · answered by Gypsy Gal 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It comes down to this.....CASH.
2007-01-29 11:02:10 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
we don't 'give' it away. We 'Sell' it.
Big difference.
2007-01-29 10:56:12 · answer #7 · answered by Morey000 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋