edders23 wrote:
not to mention of course inventing the jet engine, the tank , boolian logic which is at the heart of all computers and being responsible for naming Australia
Air Commodore Sir Frank Whittle, OM, KBE, CB, FRS, FRAeS was an English engineer, inventor and Royal Air Force air officer. He is credited with inventing the turbojet engine. A patent was submitted by Maxime Guillaume in 1921 for a similar invention; however, this was technically unfeasible at the time. Wikipedia
Born: 1 June 1907, Earlsdon, Coventry
Hans von Ohain of Germany was the designer of the first operational jet engine, though credit for the invention of the jet engine went to Great Britain's Frank Whittle. Whittle, who registered a patent for the turbojet engine in 1930, received that recognition but did not perform a flight test until 1941.
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The first combinations of the three principal components of the tank (armour, tracks, gun) appeared in the decade before World War One. In 1903, Captain Léon René Levavasseur of the French artillery proposed mounting a field gun in an armored box on tracks. Major William E. Donohue, of the British Army's Mechanical Transport Committee, suggested fixing a gun and armored shield on a British type of track-driven vehicle.[11] The first armored car was produced in Austria in 1904. However, all were restricted to rails or reasonably passable terrain. It was the development of a practical caterpillar track that provided the necessary independent, all-terrain mobility.
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Boolean algebra was introduced by George Boole (Born 2 November 1815
Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom) in his first book The Mathematical Analysis of Logic [2](1847), and set forth more fully in his An Investigation of the Laws of Thought (1854).[3] According to Huntington, the term "Boolean algebra" was first suggested by Sheffer in 1913,[4] although Charles Sanders Peirce gave the title "A Boolean Algebra with One Constant" to the first chapter of his "The Simplest Mathematics" in 1880.[5] Boolean algebra has been fundamental in the development of digital electronics, and is provided for in all modern programming languages. It is also used in set theory and statistics.[6]
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This like the Russians claiming Shakespeare and Da Vinci were Russian and the Yanks claiming they broke the Enigma code machine, and TV claiming Ann Boleyn was black............