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Now here's today's news, discerned differently.

Today is July 16th, 2019.

Most Americans celebrate 10 holidays each year, beginning with New Year's Day and ending with Christmas.

Now it seems we've added an 11th to the list.

Amazon Prime Day began yesterday to national fanfare.

The day began in 2015 as a celebration of Amazon's

20th anniversary. Research firms expect the two-day event to generate more than $5 billion

in sales, up by 50% over last year. Amazon is not the only technology phenomenon in the news. Twitter celebrated its 13th anniversary

yesterday. As massive as Twitter's impact is, the social media giant ranks 12th among

platforms for monthly users. Facebook is first, with 2.23 billion monthly active users. YouTube is second, with 2.23 billion monthly active users.

YouTube is second, with 1.9 billion.

Reflecting on the technology revolution that is changing the world,

the question occurred to me, how many of these advances were made by Americans?

Scanning a Wikipedia list of American inventions, I found more than 200 entries. On the list are such ubiquitous creations as the Internet, the airplane, the alarm clock, the paperclip, the fire hydrant,

the fortune cookie, surprisingly, the personal computer, the crayon, dental floss, the dishwasher,

the ballpoint pen, the polio vaccine, the microwave oven, the television, the telephysm, The

The oil floss, the dishwasher, the ballpoint pen, the polio vaccine, the microwave oven, the television, the telephone, the electric guitar, and the supermarket.

And Apollo 11 launched 50 years ago today, carrying astronauts who would become the first to walk on the moon.

What does our country's technological prowess say about us?

Americans, of course, have no monopoly on inventions. Chinese culture and creativity predate ours by

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