George Westinghouse bought the rights to a steam turbine design off a UK engineer. Technically it wasn't "theft", but the idea wasn't his, was it? Also, one of

George Westinghouse bought the rights to a steam turbine design off a UK engineer. Technically it wasn't "theft", but the idea wasn't his, was it? Also, one of the first working steam turbines was built in Sweden. We stand on shoulders of giants. Developing transistor required a lot of groundwork. Not all was done in the US. An important part of success of Edison's light bulb was Sprengel pump designed in... London. Hace you ever heard the name Werner von Braun? I am not negating any of those achievements, but arguing it was all purely done by US is ridiculous All the facts are from Wikipedia