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Techies are in foreign lands too

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Arnold Forman asks about technology, assuming that another reader’s visitors came from Italy by plane [“Debate About Vacation Time Keeps Raging,” Letters, Sept. 7].

His assumption that American technology made it possible is incorrect: The jet engine was invented by Frank Whittle, an Englishman, and radio by an Italian, Guglielmo Marconi. Airbus Industries, a French company, is a market leader in commercial aircraft sales. The father of the modern computer was Alan Turing, British.

Wherever the technology came from, it wasn’t America.

David Cunard

Van Nuys

Send letters to Travel, L.A. Times, 202 W. 1st St., Los Angeles, CA 90012; fax (213) 237-7355, e-mail travel @latimes.com. Include your name, address and phone number.

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