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1) Err, no.
You could argue that remote generation (power stations) were an American "contribution" but Edison's units were DC based and consequently very short lived. AC generation was pioneered by Tesla in the US but he was Austrian.
The principles of harnessing and storing electricity had been around 90 years before that.
2) Contributed football to whom? Outside the US what you call football is a non-entity.
3) I am sure that most of the world is grateful to the US for what it did in WW2 and rightly so. Nonetheless the nascent was founded on slavery a time when democratic systems were already founded in Europe. It is also not that long ago that you had prohibition. Today you can't gamble legally online and by any objective measure the US is not even in the top 20 nations in terms of personal freedoms.
Tesla was born to Serbian parents in what is modern day Croatia and became an American citizen at age 35. He loved both Croatia and Serbia and he told various nationalists of both countries that if "If your hate could be turned into electricity, it would light up the whole world." He ended up working most of his life in the US.
He is one of the most fascinating men I have ever read about, from his battles with edison and the wars between GE and westinghouse, induction motors, the tesla coil, AC, his theories on everything from his vegetarianism and his theories on women, he is just fascinating. I read this the other day, he had theories on everything from science to eugenics to women, he believed women were morally superior and had just been held back intellectually by society in education. and would one day be a sort of a queen bee type culture with women placing less importance on marriage and motherhood and more emphasis on careers and education.
http://www.tfcbooks.com/tesla/1926-01-30.htm
Mr. Tesla regards the emergence of woman as one of the most profound portents for the future.
"It is clear to any trained observer," he says, "and even to the sociologically untrained, that a new attitude toward sex discrimination has come over the world through the centuries, receiving an abrupt stimulus just before and after the World War.
"This struggle of the human female toward sex equality will end in a new sex order, with the female as superior. The modern woman, who anticipates in merely superficial phenomena the advancement of her sex, is but a surface symptom of something deeper and more potent fermenting in the bosom of the race.
"It is not in the shallow physical imitation of men that women will assert first their equality and later their superiority, but in the awakening of the intellect of women.
"Through countless generations, from the very beginning, the social subservience of women resulted naturally in the partial atrophy or at least the hereditary suspension of mental qualities which we now know the female sex to be endowed with no less than men.
The Queen is the Center of Life
"BUT the female mind has demonstrated a capacity for all the mental acquirements and achievements of men, and as generations ensue that capacity will be expanded; the average woman will be as well educated as the average man, and then better educated, for the dormant faculties of her brain will be stimulated to an activity that will be all the more intense and powerful because of centuries of repose. Woman will ignore precedent and startle civilization with their progress.
"The acquisition of new fields of endeavor by women, their gradual usurpation of leadership, will dull and finally dissipate feminine sensibilities, will choke the maternal instinct, so that marriage and motherhood may become abhorrent and human civilization draw closer and closer to the perfect civilization of the bee."
The significance of this lies in the principle dominating the economy of the bee--the most highly organized and intelligently coordinated system of any form of nonrational animal life--the all-governing supremacy of the instinct for immortality which makes divinity out of motherhood.
The center of all bee life is the queen
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