You're sure about the point measure being a Swiss invention? I thought it comes from Italian and French renaissance typographers like Aldus Manutius and Claude

You're sure about the point measure being a Swiss invention? I thought it comes from Italian and French renaissance typographers like Aldus Manutius and Claude Garamond. Just saying because last time the topic of what the Swiss have and haven't invented came up, it ended in a media campaign claiming Swiss origin to cough lozenges (vs the Finnish). And there's of course the long-standing habit of misappropriating the cuckoo's clock origin to be Swiss, when it comes from the neighbouring Black Forest region in Germany (and actually has greatly contributed to the burning of said forest for glass production). /s PS. No reasonable people think Americans are dumb for either the reasons you stated, or any others; that would be dumb in itself. However, strawmans like that make for an excellent "us-vs-them" political agenda narrative.