1. it's invented in the US
2. the japanese make it smaller and cheaper
3. the russians claim they've had it for 20 years and have been keeping it a secret.
LOL!!!
We have almost the same joke about Americans: "That Russians always steal our designs! They already have built a plane that we planned to design 5 years later!"

I never said that Yablochkov invented light bulb - he only designed a first practical usable source of electric light.
TahGut, Mozhayskiy "invented" the first "modern" airplane, and, please remember, that Wright's first flights were as successfull as his first experiments. It's not his fault that he didn't succeed. And his airplane was based on a kite design, observer kites were widely used in Russian Army and Navy. I think that most important work in heavier-then-air flight was made not by Mozhayskiy or Wright brothers, but by Otto Lilientahl. (probably wrong spelling - you know, we have different alphabet).
You guys don't believe that "that Russian barbarians" ever invented anything. A year ago there was a nice discussion about MiG-15 here, and it showed another brilliant work of your propaganda. Hehe, some people believe that "democracy" was invented in the US

There are some Russian "inventors" who were "invented" by our propaganda, like Cherepanov brothers, who "invented" a railway steam-engine in 1830s, but if you use your brain it's very easy to distinguish them.
BTW, do you know who invented copper wire? Two Jews who found a penny
