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Re:"No inventions; no innovations" A History of US Steel by hulitu on Friday December 29, 2023 @04:58PM (#38810724)
> North American industry was in a slow evolution from the 1900's, but Germany and Japan, had a hot start from the 1950-60's

You forgot that US took every German and Japanese engineer as prisoner. As a friend said, US chemical industry worked 40 years after the WWII with German patents.

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Re:"No inventions; no innovations" A History of US Steel by justrealist on Friday December 29, 2023 @04:59PM (#38810743)
> You forgot that US took every German and Japanese engineer as prisoner.

This is not even slightly true.

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Re:"No inventions; no innovations" A History of US Steel by Qwertious on Saturday December 30, 2023 @02:35AM (#38813444)
>You forgot that US took every German and Japanese engineer as prisoner.

Do you mean took them prisoner for a few days to sort out paperwork, or do you mean took them prisoner and kept them?

The latter is provably nonsense as indicated by e.g. Heckler and Koch, a German engineering company (and later gun company) formed by three former Mauser engineers. Mauser, the gun company.

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