I love my American friends but there is no way this is a list of 'American' ideas!
Neither Atom nor Binary Digits are American ideas and here's another 5 just to get us started.
Telescope
Carburettor
Diesel Engine
Antibiotics
World Wide Web
Bluetooth
I'll concede that the term "Bit" as shorthand for binary digit is American, but what this list represents is a list of brilliant Human ideas!
Guys – you've really got to learn to stop claiming EVERYTHING for yourselves… ☺
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Subject: 'From Atoms to Bits': A Brilliant Visual History of American Ideas
Packalen and Bhattacharya indexed every one-word, two-word, and three-word phrase that appeared in more than 4 million patent texts in the last 175 years. To focus their search on truly new concepts, they recorded the year those phrases first appeared in a patent. Finally, they ranked each concept's popularity based on how many times it reappeared in later patents. Essentially, they trawled the billion-word literature of patents to document the birth-year and the lifespan of American concepts, from "plastic" to "world wide web" and "instant messaging."
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