Are you serious? The internet was invented/created by the United States military during the 1960s. Europe DID NOT invent the internet. The United States has always been ahead of Europe in terms of creativity, the go-getter attitude, and the youth being told they can [do it]. Combine those three criteria in the right proportions and toss in some luck and hard work and that is the recipe for the reason the United States has always been the leading nation for discoveries and inventions. EDIT: Those reasons are why the United States has always been #1, not just ahead of Europe. As a side note, the Chinese and Indians are great at solving problems, but only if they already know how to. I go to an engineering school and have been told by a few professors that the people of Asian/Middle East decent are great at applying methods they already know, but they fall behind when any creativity/critical thinking is required.
We invented the USA. We liberated America from the Red Indians and gave a home to all of you who live there. We also invented democracy. If it wasnt for us, you would all be fighting eachother in an anarchic country.
People are confusing WWW and the Internet. WWW was invented at CERN (european agency btw) but Internet has its roots from US DOD. Never forget that the internet is more than the web, usenet, e-mail, etc.
Real inventions aside, on my last visit to the US, I was surprised to see many German brands, products being now available there. From shampoo to mobile phone companies (Deutsche Telekom) etc....this was clearly not the case maybe 15 years ago when European markets already had been flooded with US products a long time ago.
The V-2 Missile was developed in Germany from 1936 through the efforts of scientists led by Wernher von Braun. Otto von Guericke The inventor of the nothing we call a vacuum. Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin was the German military officer who developed the rigid dirigible a lighter-than-air vehicle that became known as the zeppelin. Cordite - Sir James Dewar, Sir Frederick Abel Crossword Puzzles - Arthur Wynne Polyester - John Rex Whinfield and James Tennant Dickson Toilet Paper - British Perforated Paper Company Doctor Joseph Ignace Guillotin - The Guillotine French inventors, Joseph and Jacques Etienne Montgolfier made the first successful hot-air balloon. The bikini was an invention created in France in 1946, named after the Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands, the site of atomic bomb testing. Dr Giorgio Fischer, a gynecologist from Rome, Italy, invented liposuction in 1974. The modern-day espresso machine was created by Italian Achilles Gaggia in 1946. In 1968, Italian American Roy Jacuzzi invented and marketed the first self-contained, fully integrated whirlpool bath by incorporating jets into the sides of the tub. The first double winged lever corkscrew patented in North America was created by the Italian designer, Dominick Rosati. In 1806, carbon paper was invented by Pellegrino Turri of Italy. The saxophone was invented by a Belgian manufacturer, Adolphe Sax. Cellophane was invented by Jacques E. Brandenberger in 1908, a Swiss inventor and textile engineer. Romanian inventor Alexandru Ciurcu, together with Frenchman Just Buisson, built a dirigible with a jet engine. The Iron Maiden of Nuremberg, Breaking with the Wheel and numerous other torture devices.
The internal combustion engine was invented in Europe. Everything invented since pales in comparison.
Legitimate credit for who or where an invention finally came to its fruition isn't like giving one team or another posession of a fumble recovery. Another case of truth being a liquid and not a solid.