Sky, please chill out with the "I said it first" bit. One thing I have learned over the years is that nothing anyone does is ever truly original. This can be taken as universal truism applying to all the great efforts of mankind. Whittle and Ohain invented the jet engine simultaneously without even consulting with one another. Both were merely adding to turbine technology that already existed. Einstein himself said his work was only possible by sitting on the shoulders of the giants that came before. A scholar never cares to draw attention to himself. New ideas are almost never hatched in any completed sort of shape; it took the Wrights years of fooling with the work of Lilienthal to make an airplane that would go 500 feet. Convince yourself, then others will be convinced.