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If the USA doesn't exist and is a Dominion of some super sized BritishWank Empire what happens to some the greatest inventors and scientist of all time who happend to be Americans? How would this affect technological development? My example is this...Alexander Graham Bell was Scottish via Canada. So I would presume he would still exist and invent the telephone
in my super British Empire world. This might give the telecommunications industry to the UK since there would be no AT&T, Bell Labs or Western Electric.
Now then...what about Thomas Edison or Westinghouse or the Wright Brothers would they be butterflied away because the USA doesn't exist? Are there other loyal subjects of the crown that could replace these men in an alternate BritishWank Empire world? How does this affect the world?
Is more industrial capacity and development locked into Great Britain? And does this increase in tech development keep the Empire the only super-power in the world?
Please discuss!!!
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