It feels like every country has it's own "we actually invented airplanes" story. Growing up I heard form my parents, who are from a little-talked about country,

It feels like every country has it's own "we actually invented airplanes" story. Growing up I heard form my parents, who are from a little-talked about country, claim that their country was the one that invented airplanes. I think it's similar to the lightbulb. The availability of certain other technologies allowed for an explosion in invention leading to many simultaneous "discoveries" of the same basic inventions. In the US it seems we prioritize the documentation through the patent system to ascribe credit