White inventors have the key to prosperity for centuries. Kings, emporers, and modern politicians, who ignored this fact, have let their nations slip from greatness and have been surpassed by nations that appreciated these inventors. The oldest example of a missed opportunity is Hero of Alexandria, an ancient Greek engineer, who wrote of various steam engines invented in 200 BC. If these inventions had been seriously pursued, man might have walked on the moon in 369 AD instead of 1969 AD.

Another great missed opportunity occurred in Spain in 1543. A Spanish king (Ref. 1,2) overlooked an invention well ahead of its time:
The superintendent of the royal Spanish archives at Simancas furnished an account... of an attempt, made in 1543 by Blasco de Garay, a Spanish navy-officer under Charles V., to move a ship by paddle-wheels, driven, as was inferred from the account, by a steam-engine....
Nothing is known of the form of the engine employed, it only having been stated: "(a) vessel of boiling water formed a part of the apparatus."

The Spaniards went on to lose a great naval battle with England in 1588 due to the fact that their ships were less maneuverable than the British ships. Clearly, if the story of an early Spanish steamship in 1543 is true. The Spanish king could have focused some wealth and talent on this invention, improved the design and developed a fleet of steam-powered warships in time for the great battle with England forty-five years later, which no doubt would have changed the course of history.

The French similarly missed their opportunity. In 1803, a steam powered ship, built by American Robert Fulton, who had been pursuing his research in France, made four and a half miles per hour in a demonstration before members of Napoleon's staff. (Ref. 3)

August 9, 1803, this boat was cast loose in presence of an immense concourse of spectators, including a committee of the National Academy, consisting of Bougainville, Bossuet, Carnot, and Perier. The boat moved but slowly, making only between three and four miles an hour against the current, the speed through the water being about 4.5 miles; but this was, all things considered, a great success.

The experiment attracted little attention, notwithstanding the fact that its success had been witnessed by the committee of the Academy and by officers on Napoleon's staff.

No financial assistance for the further development of the steamship materialized. Unfortunately, for the French, this remarkable achievement was not appreciated or followed through. England was able to maintain control of the seas and eventually Napoleon was defeated and exiled to a island, where he lived out his life as a prisoner.

The Founding Fathers included men, who realized the great importance of inventions. The United States Constitution provided protection (Article I Section 8 Clause 8) for inventors in the form of our current system of patents. Benjamin Franklin was a great inventor. Franklin invented the rocking chair, street lamps, bifocal glasses, the Franklin stove and the lightning rod. Franklin proved that lightning was an electrical phenonmenon. His descriptions of electricity introduced the expressions: battery, conductor, condenser, charge, plus, minus, electric shock and electrician.

Thomas Jefferson was also an inventor giving America the swivel chair, an improved plow and a cipher wheel for encoding diplomatic messages. Jefferson's brilliance was also displayed in the Constitution and his actions as President. Jefferson doubled the size of the United States through the Louisiana Purchase and sent Lewis and Clark on the first overland expedition across what would become the continental United States.

While protecting an individual's patent may seem like a good first step toward helping inventors, the history of invention reveals that;
(1).Great inventions such as those of Hero of Alexandria can be lost to history for a long, long time.
(2).In the case of the Spanish and French, a significant invention (the steamship) was made, but was ignored and unappreciated by the government.
(3).In capitalist societies an apathetic king is often replaced by apathetic capitalists and politicians, who can ignore a good invention just as blithely as their royal predecessors.
(4).A large financial incentive should be offered to encourage inventions in certain fields of science. A few people may object to the idea of providing incentives, especially government incentives, for inventions, but there are examples of this having already been done and having helped produce some of the greatest inventions in history.

In 1714, the "Board of Longitude" was established by the English government to offer twenty thousand pounds for the development of a clock that could keep time with extreme accuracy. The Board also supplied some financial help to inventors, who had shown some success. An inventor, John Harrison, worked on a clock design, doing landmark research on the effects of temperature on a clock's mechanism. By 1735, his first clock, H1, was accurate to within three seconds every 24 hours. Harrison continued improving his clock design and in 1761 developed his H4 clock, which lost only five seconds in two months. Unfortunately, Harrison had to fight a bureaucracy to get his award. He eventually appealed to the king of England, who helped him finally get the award. Captain James Cook took one of Harrison's watches in his voyage around the world.

The steam locomotive was developed thanks to a wager. In 1803 in Britain Samuel Homfray made a 1000 pound wager with his skeptical friends that a steam powered vehicle could pull 10 tons of iron over nine miles of iron track. On February 22nd, 1804, thanks to the help of a steam engine designer, Richard Trevithick, the first steam engine "locomotive" pulled the required load at four and a half miles per hour for nine miles. Thanks to this wager, the steam locomotive became a reality, and more serious development followed. By 1825, the first regular steam engine service carried passengers and goods at nine miles per hour over (a different) nine miles of railway in Britain. Five years later, the first American railway had been built going thirteen miles out from Baltimore. By 1855, all the major cities of continental Europe were connected by rail. Similarly, American cities were also connected by rail by then, and a railway was even built across Panama so that a person could travel from the east coast to the west coast by a combination of steamship and train. Once the basic idea of a steam locomotive had been demonstrated and established, the invention spread all over the civilized world.

During the early twentieth century, several prizes were offered for pilots, who could fly increasing landmark distances. A series of pilots came forward and won these prizes. A French hotel owner, Raymond Orteig, offered $25,000 for the first flight from New York to Paris. In response to this offer, Charles Lindbergh had Ryan Aircraft Company build a plane specifically designed to accomplish this. Lindbergh made his successful flight across the Atlantic in May 1927.

Most of the government support for invention in America in the twentieth century has been in the form of large military or space projects. The Apollo Moon Project created seven dollars of private industry for every taxpayer dollar that went into it. The personal computer industry was advanced perhaps ten years earlier thanks to the need for small computers inside the Apollo spacecraft. Personal computers led to the development of the multi-billion dollar software industry as well as the Internet and the many dot-com businesses. The powerful rockets developed for the space program helped carry weather satellites, communication satellites and even "Direct TV" satellites into space.

Unfortunately, our politically correct two party system is pouring money into "inner city schools," welfare, food stamps, and dozens of other hand out programs while talented young White scientists find a severe lack of jobs as they graduate from college. Our government cancelled the Super-Collider project, which is vitally important for analyzing sub-atomic particles, which could lead to a breakthrough in fusion, which would provide cheap, limitless energy for all Americans. Our government has delayed and underfunded the Strategic Defense Initiative, which would protect our cities from nuclear missile attack. The Democrats endlessly whine that a missile defense system is "impossible and a waste of money." Meanwhile these same Democrats insist that our government spends hundreds of billions of dollars to improve Black test scores (which anyone with a brain knows is truly "impossible and a waste of money.") Our government has also put on hold any serious attempt to send a manned mission to Mars even though the Apollo Moon Mission produced many scientific breakthroughs and greatly benefited the American economy.

History presents us with an extremely clear lesson: Money spent on the advancement of science, which puts our most brilliant scientists to work, benefits all Americans while money spent on minorities, with the intention of raising the Blacks up to the level of Whites, is money that might as well be shoveled into a giant incinerator.

1).A HISTORY OF THE GROWTH OF THE STEAM-ENGINE by ROBERT H. THURSTON, A. M., C. E.,

2).Blasco de Garay's 1543 Steamship

3).Robert Fulton - His Life and Its Results by Robert H. Thurston