Dean's Speech at Nationals

[KenWittlief]

I don't mean to be picky, but the US has not been a leader in technology for very long.

I dont understand this? the industrial revolution didnt start till the late 1800s - yes the steam engine was key to the beginning of it - but once the basic concept for it took hold, american companies ran with it big time

but the real technology revolution came from men with names like: Wright, Ford, Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, Farnsworth (<extra credit if you know him)

and companies like Bell Labs, IBM, Intel, GE, GM

and the businessmen who took these new ideas and inventions and spread them across the nation and the world

its not arrogant to say the US lead the industrial and technology revolution - its a historical fact. Stuff that is being manufactured all around the world, was invented here - electric power, telecommunications, tubes and transistors, semiconductors, computers...