Originally Posted by
livedarklions
The transistor, the microchip, the microprocessor, virtually all operating systems used worldwide, domination in the software sector,, and to your cultural point, worldwide domination in social media.
What any of this has to do with helmets is beyond me. As usual, a certain troll has derailed the thread with his nonsense. And just to be clear, I'm not quoting that troll in this post.
Indeed, I thought that I was just providing a basic history lesson to a fellow American. I think people just don't grasp the scale of what we're talking about. There were already a million US patents by 1911, and patents weren't trivial to file. The US was the engine of science and technology for many decades.