Who's your American icon?

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  1. techwriter

    techwriter Well-Known Member

    Hmmmm, can't vote for Charles Baggage or Alan Turing since they were British.

    So, I'll vote for Jack Kilby.

    Who? you may ask. Search for his name and consider what life would be today without his invention.
     
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  3. V. Kurt Bellman

    V. Kurt Bellman Yes, I'm blunt! Get over your "feeeeelings".

    Put her on the $20 bill! Want to revive cash use? That'll do it!
     
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  4. dwhiz

    dwhiz Collector Supporter

    How about
     
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  5. Collecting Nut

    Collecting Nut Borderline Hoarder

    There are too many great Americans that have contributed to this great nation. Some from the beginning and others, more recently. I'm sorry but I can't choose just one. Not sure I could pick 10 either. :)
     
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  6. Santinidollar

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    Well, I think we have the start of a series here.:D
     
    Santinidollar, Jul 14, 2017
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  7. sakata

    sakata Devil's Advocate

    It's not that he was successful. In fact he never succeeded in anything. What makes him so important is that he TRIED to do what he believed in but the system wouldn't let him. All his contemporaries did what was best for themselves.
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  8. Beefer518

    Beefer518 Well-Known Member

    I'm with @lordmarcovan - Ben Franklin IMO, did more for this country and most of the world with his inventions and knowledge. Lincoln would be my close second, and then Edison.

    Great thread BTW.
     
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  9. lordmarcovan

    lordmarcovan 48-year collector Moderator

    God bless ol' Fred Rogers. He was the real deal. I remember watching a TV prank show where they'd set up in a hotel, with the by-then-elderly Mr. Rogers as the intended prankee. They tried various "Candid Camera" style ruses to get him mad. (The show might've even been the later version of Candid Camera itself - I forget.)

    Anyway, their attempts to get his goat all failed spectacularly, because Fred Rogers was so good-natured and unflappable. For instance, when informed that his room had a broken or missing TV set, Mr. Rogers smiled and replied that it was no problem at all - he'd already had plenty enough television in his life.
     
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  10. Paddy54

    Paddy54 Well-Known Member

    Teddy Roosevelt has always been a favorite of mine .
    He's always showed to me how much he truly love this country . As a president , as a naturalist. We wouldn't have the national parks if not for love of nature and the beauty of this country .
    If he was alive today no one would every disrespect the natural beauty of this nation.
     
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  11. lordmarcovan

    lordmarcovan 48-year collector Moderator

    Edison would definitely have made my short list had it not been for a few less-savory personal traits, and animal cruelty in his experiments (In one documentary I saw - without warning - film footage of a kitten being deliberately electrocuted to death, which disturbs me to this day.)

    But his inventions rightly earn him immortality.
     
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  12. lordmarcovan

    lordmarcovan 48-year collector Moderator

    Teddy Roosevelt was a great American, no doubt, and deserves the gratitude of numismatists, but he was also a borderline madman whose sociopathic/violent tendencies were more than a little frightening. (And he loved to kill animals, too.) Still, he was American to the core and deserving of his glory.

    Thinking of TR reminds me of someone we lost in the last few years who once played TR in a movie.

    Late-great funnyman Robin Williams had his flaws and his demons, too, but he was another American original, and I miss him.

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  13. Histman

    Histman Too Many Coins, Not Enough Time!

    American, British, and French. LOL
     
    Histman, Jul 14, 2017
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  14. Histman

    Histman Too Many Coins, Not Enough Time!

    Yep. You got that right, Pilgrim.
     
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  15. Histman

    Histman Too Many Coins, Not Enough Time!

    I like the way you think.
     
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  16. Histman

    Histman Too Many Coins, Not Enough Time!

    I thought the exact same thing when I saw that post. Love that movie.
     
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  17. Histman

    Histman Too Many Coins, Not Enough Time!

    Watched him every day growing up. Appeared to be a gentle man.
     
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  18. longnine009

    longnine009 Darwin has to eat too. Supporter

    Henry Louis Mencken
     
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  19. ToughCOINS

    ToughCOINS Dealer Member Moderator


    I'd have to put Thomas Jefferson up against Ben Franklin as a near equivalent, but I think it unlikely that any one human being has had greater individual impact upon the rest of humanity than Thomas Alva Edison.
     
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  20. Santinidollar

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  21. lordmarcovan

    lordmarcovan 48-year collector Moderator

    Yes, I already mentioned how Edison's less-savory side kept him from being my choice, despite his obvious importance.
     
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