American Culture

Aoxomoxoa said:
The World Wide Web and HTML were developed by Sir Tim Berners-Lee when he was at CERN. The first true computer was designed and constructed by Dr. Tommy Flowers and his team at Bletchley Park.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_berners_lee

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossus_computer
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Right but the packet switching network servers that were created on which HTML operates were created by a coalition of the US Dept of Defense and US Academia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARPANET
 
Mott the Hoople said:
Right but the packet switching network servers that were created on which HTML operates were created by a coalition of the US Dept of Defense and US Academia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARPANET
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Mott, I have worked on computer networks for over 30 years including BBN and Telenet switches in the early days and Nortel, Cisco, Huawei in later years. BBN (Bolt, Beranek and Newman) switches came directly out of ARPANET research. The first time I encountered them was at US Sprint HQ in Reston VA in the 80's.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBN_Technologies
 
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Mott the Hoople said:
Sorry Tom...even the articl notes that Britain played a small but significant role in the development of the atomic bomb. The US unquestionably did the heavylifting and spent the billions in treasure.
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Sorry Mott, you have obviously never heard of the MAUD Committee or the Quebec Agreement.

Britain was the first country to seriously study the feasibility of nuclear weapons, and made a number of critical conceptual breakthroughs. The first theoretically sound critical mass calculation was made in England by Otto Frisch and Rudolf Peierls in Feb. 1940. Inspired by this finding the MAUD Committee (a code name chosen from the first name of one member's nanny) was founded. Headed by Sir Henry Tizard, from 10 April 1940 to 15 July 1941, this committee worked out the basic principles of both fission bomb design and uranium enrichment by gaseous diffusion. The work done by the MAUD Committee was instrumental in alerting the U.S. (and through espionage, the USSR) to the feasibility of fission weapons in WWII. A high level of cooperation between Britain, the U.S., and Canada continued through the war, formalized by the 1943 Quebec Agreement. Britain sent the "British Mission", a team of first rank scientists to work at Los Alamos. Among the scientists who made this journey were the pioneer of shock wave physics Geoffrey I. Taylor and a protege - William G. Penney. The mission made major contributions to the Manhattan Project, and provided the nucleus for British post-war atomic weapons development effort.
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http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Uk/UKOrigin.html
 
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iolo said:
Yes - but British abolitionism was a different deal, since there was no slavery here - just a matter of all the decent people rising up against the filthy trade. There are stories of the Yorkshire farmers riding up to York to vote. 'Who are you for, gentlemen?' 'Wilberforce' (the great abolitionist leader) ' to a man!' And I have seen the signatures to the abolitionist petition from a little town in Shropshire I once lived in - almost everyone who could write must have signed, and it must have been almost as big as the numbers who went on the anti-Iraq-war demo. I also know that in the last days of the trade, scarcely anyone in the Gold-Coast slaver stations would take Holy Communion, knowing better than to eat and drink their own damnation while unrepentantly sinning. And a lot later two of my wife's family went over to volunteer for the Union Army to fight slavery.

If is tougher when it is part of the society you are in. The Quaker I am talking about went round all the Friends for miles, seeking their convincement, and against all the odds swung the whole denomination against slavery. All honour to such!
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His name was John Woolman, a great man. On the SF I'd particularly mention Kurt Vonnegut. As to jazz coming from Africa, everything human apparently does, ultimately. My family in Merthyrwere amongst those who made the rails for the first American and Russian railways - and a fat lot they got for it!
 
Howey said:
O rabid following.
The brand name Jeep is synonymous with American culture, from it's war use to outdoor use, t
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In America, maybe. Outside America....not so much. We're talking world culture now. Not American culture. For example. American football as popular as it is in North America wouldn't count. Most people outside of North America don't give a shit for the sport. Where as Basketball is huge around the rest of the world and Baseball is greatly popular in much of South/Central America and Asia.
 
Mott the Hoople said:
In America, maybe. Outside America....not so much. We're talking world culture now. Not American culture. For example. American football as popular as it is in North America wouldn't count. Most people outside of North America don't give a shit for the sport. Where as Basketball is huge around the rest of the world and Baseball is greatly popular in much of South/Central America and Asia.
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Ummm, Mott. The title of your thread is "American Culture".
 
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