Originally Posted by
ixulescu
Almost all the inventions in the OP list were invented and reinvented in many places. Ultimately, only inventors from powerful economies get the credit, because only they are able to secure funds to make such inventions practical enough to be able to sell them.
For instance, a little know fact is that first plane to lift off by its own means was made by a Romanian in 1906. This was of course after Wright brothers plane, but unlike the latter it didn't require a catapult - the Romanian plane had a landing gear (Wright brothers' plane didn't).
A Romanian inventor also built the first helicopter able to take-off in 1922. Another Romanian installed an early version of a jet engine (a motorjet) in a plane in 1910. All of this Romanian pioneering work in aviation didn't matter, because Romanian inventors couldn't gather funds to make their inventions marketable.
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