re: #197 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Just imagine what they could have come up with if they had not run off all their Jewish scientists, engineers and inventors…

Who, for example? Einstein was not a technologist. Refugees like Teller and Szilard (both Hungarians) and Fermi (an Italian) made crucial contributions to the nuclear weapons program but German-born Edgar Shmeud, designer of the P-51 Mustang, had come to the United States in the 1920s and was not a refugee by any stretch of the imagination. Other key personnel like Robert Oppenheimer and Leslie Groves were Americans.
Frank Whittle, who indisputably invented the turbojet engine and had a working prototype in 1937, was British. The first practical digital computer was a British wartime invention, and the most closely guarded secret in the world, and allied cryptographic superiority was crucial in winning the war.