Karl Jantzen: Late 50's/ early 60's.
Seema Hosfeld: Television come out in the 1940's. Color television In the late 1950's.
Rosie Travino: Yeah, right. You forget, an awful lot of things were invented long before we came on the scene in the first place. The Chinese invented paper. Gutenberg, a German, created the movable printing press. Guns were around long before we were. We are finding out that the Greeks, Romans, and Egyptians actually had prototypical odometers and even computers. And there are many more recent discoveries and inventions by non-Americans. Louis Pasteur (France) created pasteurisation. The helicopter was invented by a Russian. Medical discoveries, such as the morning after pill, were invented in other countries. It's a good thing Germany was defeated when it was--they had invented the jet engine, but hadn't put it into production yet. They also created the rocket (the V2), which was only refined in the US for the space because we imported! the German scientists who created them to work for us. If you think the average 8 year old American is as intelligent as the average 40 year old foreigner, you haven't worked with many 8 year olds lately. I grade standardized tests for schools nationwide, and even up into 10th grade, you'd be amazed at how ignorant some of the kids are. There are some exceptions, but many can't even spell. They usually know only one language, whereas most foreigners know at least 2 or 3. It sounds like you have the attitude that makes the rest of us have the reputation that we do as "Ugly Americans."...Show more
Tracy Huesso: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_television...
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