“The U.S. Deported This Chinese Scientist, in a Decision That Changed World History” (New York Times, May 30, 2025):
In 1950, though it didn’t know it yet, the American government held one of the keys to winning the Cold War: Qian Xuesen, a brilliant Chinese rocket scientist who had already transformed the fields of aerospace and weaponry. In the halls of the California Institute of Technology and M.I.T., he had helped solve the riddle of jet propulsion and developed America’s first guided ballistic missiles.
The immigrant invented the jet engine, then? The Wikipedia history of the jet engine credits various English and European engineers, notably Frank Whittle, with most of the “riddle-solving” work done more than 20 years prior to 1950.
I wonder how many more years it will be before all textbooks relate a history of science and technology in which all innovations are from migrants, the 2SLGBTQQIA+, women, and Engineers of Color.
Below, Qian Xuesen’s Gloster Meteor.
Seems that NYT still discriminates against Chinese. They are cover up that Qian Xuesen invented time machine to communicate his jet engine discovery back in time to Gloster Meteor designers.
On the other news, the bromance between Musk and Trump ended. What do we do now.
First, end UNCAPPED & ILLEGAL H-4EAD and STEM OPT (the latter of which includes a 15% TAX BREAK FOR HIRING FOREIGN NATIONALS).
Second, end H-1B (article includes a critical interview with former Rep. Bruce Morrison (D-CT) who sponsored H-1B):
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-immigration-h1b-visas-perm-tech-jobs-recruitment
Need to foster bromance between Trump and Zuckerberg.
Not surprised, media in general is uninformed when it comes to technical accomplishments. It is too difficult for the media arts major brain to process. Qian Xuesen (H. S. Tsien) was excellent at Caltech and one of the founders of Jack Parsons Lab (JPL). In 1954 he wrote Engineering Cybernetics one of first major books in control systems. Deported from the US in 1955 to lead the Chinese ballistic missile program. What a brilliant move by the US.
Here is the docu-drama on Qian Xuesen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDXrDXuDp9E
Elmo, our Canadian Candidate is behaving much better than expected, since we were finally able to transmit the code word to him.
ME-262ish?
Anglos
Saxons
Who can tell them apart?
Phil, in 2019 you documented one such revision of history at the Wright Brothers National Memorial where apparently all advances after the Wright’s initial flight were made by women.
https://philip.greenspun.com/blog/2019/02/19/learning-the-history-of-aviation-from-the-u-s-government/