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Your Greatest American Invention?
America has rewarded those who invent and innovate! We have also attracted the greatest minds in history to our country! What’s the greatest USA invention?
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@Mike Karabell I could do a whole series of videos just on this post. Technology is an ongoing evolution of experiments and improvements. I believe that instead of arguing over who invented what, we should celebrate the entire chain: the visionaries, the inventors, the innovators, and the industrialists who together turn imagination into reality. Mark Twain said it best: “It takes a thousand men to invent a telegraph, or a steam engine, or a phonograph, or a photograph, or a telephone or any other important thing—and the last man gets the credit and we forget the others. He added his little mite — that is all he did. These object lessons should teach us that ninety-nine parts of all things that proceed from the intellect are plagiarisms, pure and simple; and the lesson ought to make us modest. But nothing can do that.”
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@Mike Karabell In 1898, H. J. Heinz built one of the first fully electrified factories in America powered by the same AC revolution Westinghouse was unleashing across Pittsburgh. Years before Ford’s moving assembly line, Heinz was running a continuous‑flow, assembly‑line food operation. Ransom Eli Olds, for whom both the Oldsmobile and REO brands were named, is credited with designing the basic concept of the assembly line. At the Old Motor Works in Detroit he mass produced the Curved Dash Oldsmobile becoming the leading American auto producer from 1901 through 1904. Henry Ford perfected the assembly line producing an entire Model T Ford in 93 minutes. Henry Ford created lower cost automobiles and created an industry.
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Welcome New Member!
@Tom Peracchio has a vast history knowledge as we discuss America’s Founding Fathers and frame even recent US history and events using our CONSTITUTION and the DECLARATION of INDEPENDENCE. Please give your Story as well. We always discuss our own local areas as well!
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@Mike Karabell I grew up in Western PA, lived about 10 years in Norh Central PA, and now live in Delaware. When I worked as a systems engineer for a PA company, I worked in the greater Philly area as well as Lancaster area. I tease people if there was a Jeopardy category about PA I would do well. I've guestimated that working in field service and consulting I've worked in around 50 of the 67 counties of PA,
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@Julianne Anderson Thank you. I'm looking forward to exploring your Retro Riches Archive
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National Parks (Your Favorite)?????
Theodore Roosevelt was a big believer in USA National Parks and I am too!!!! (I visited Mt. Rushmore in 1982)!!! What’s your favorite USA National Park? On a family vacation, We went to 3 in Virginia with my 2 boys and daughter. Mt. Vernon (George Washington’s Home) Williamsburg (Colonial Times) Jamestown (Museum with Pocahontas recreation and fort (not the real one, with ships) circa 1609!!!!!!! Do you think there should be more USA National Parks? How Nassau Hall at Princeton University is not a museum in New Jersey for the Battle of Princeton I have no idea?
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@Mike Karabell Hey I'm new here so I'm discovering some older posts. National parks, yeah, I love them, not sure it we need more, I'd just be happy if we can maintain the ones we have. Speaking of Teddy R., I am planning a road trip to Teddy Roosevelt National Park this fall. A lot of stops along the way, in the neighborhood of 4000 mile round trip for me. Of course hitting a lot of history museums!
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TSA Needed Anymore (Poll)?
In airports, should the TSA, government security, which checks everyone for weapons/etc… be finished now, 23 years after 9/11? Why or why not?
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Having a long career in technology this has been an ongoing topic in my life "Security v. Freedom." Working as a computer network admin you get called numerous names for implementing security procedures. But if you don't implement the security procedures you get called a different set of names, and get into a bunch of trouble, when something goes wrong. Things like the TSA are the necessities of our modern world.
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Abraham Lincoln (Godlike or Practical?)
Was Abraham Lincoln, the 1st Republican President, almost a religious level leader or simply practical? for Preserving the Union in the Civil War (1861-1865) and “Freeing 4 Million Southern slaves”? (Moses level freedom) He did issue the Emancipation proclamation (January 1, 1863) He gave a moral cause for Northern solidiers and kept the South from gaining Allies that way. After the bloody battle of Antitem in Maryland (1862) Freeing the Slaves upon Union army victories to gain black men to support and take up arms for the North. The North lost many battles before that date. The 1st Republican President promised to end slavery expansion to the West of Texas following the Mexican-American war, taking the U.S. to California and the Pacific Ocean. He goaded the South into firing the 1st shots at Ft. Sumpter by resuppying the fort and making the South take it by force, after Southern States succeed from the Union.
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@Mike Karabell I'm looking forward to this channel, you're really into history, and I hope at some level we can find a common ground to connect and share some ideas. Lincoln is not someone I write about, but I do have some strong feelings on the mythology surrounding him. I'm new here so I'm running from memory without the data in front of me, but I believe Lincoln made several remarks over the years that basically said he would do whatever it took to end the war, and that was his ultimate goal was ending the war, not ending slavery.
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