★ In the US, our history books tell us we invented almost everything. Do other countries recognize the US as inventing the car, light bulb, phone, computer, refrigerator, plane, steam engine, and the Internet? Or do they claim any of them too?

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None of those things are singular, out of the blue, inventions. They were all built upon many smaller, earlier inventions.

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