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Thanks Simon, any good articles on this point about jet engines? I'm collecting analyses of specific inventions.

• simonblack 7y ago
  This one tells about how the Germans and British were almost simultaneously inventing the jet: https://www.thoughtco.com/history-of-the-jet-engine-4067905 https://www.thoughtco.com/history-of-the-jet-engine-4067905 This one tells of Whittle's difficulties in Air Force resistance, also the new jets were extremely costly and required whole new areas of metallurgy and turbine design: https://frankwhittle.co.uk/challenges/ https://frankwhittle.co.uk/challenges/