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Originally posted by Super_Dave_D
And your point is? I didnt say the US invented the thing - we just made it the best!
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My point, if I have one, is simply that I am expressing some nostalgic pride in British engineering achievements and at the same time lamenting the fact that Britain, at one time an engineering superpower, has been allowed to decline by short sighted industrial management and government.
Also, while I agree that nobody can match something like the American super carrier or the German aquaduct for sheer magnitude, both are really just developments of a previous idea. What suprises me is that with all the advances in materials technology, even in the last 50 years, what a relatively small change has taken place from the original idea to today except the scale of the undetaking. Maybe this is less extreme with the carrier, but think about it - apart from the size what in the execution of the design is significantly different now to what was created way back?