At least there was a tiny little bit of honesty in that act of product piracy and they wouldn´t try to claim the glory of inventing the concept of base heatersSteveZee wrote:I love how they called the baseheaters "American's" Very cool and a bit like up here in Maine where sub sandwiches or grinders as we called them are refered to as "Italian's"
I read somewhere that major German manufacturers like Buderus imported base heaters from the US in the 1870´s and would use them as a "reference" for their stoves...to be honest: German base heaters were the spitting image of the American reference and just the decoration would be slightly adapted to German taste.
And today WE are complaining about Chinese product piracy and infringements of our patents - funny how things change over the course of 140 years