"How Argentina Stole an African Invention" 馃摑 One man gets the patent. One continent gets erased. In 1826, Vicente Lanuza filed a patent for the "bottomless bucket"鈥攁 revolutionary water-lifting device that transformed Argentine cattle ranching overnight. One worker on horseback could water 2,000 head of cattle in eight hours. But according to historian Andrew Sluyter, Lanuza almost certainly didn't invent it. Between 1800-1806, approximately 2,175 enslaved and free Senegambians arrived on the A
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"How Argentina Stole an African Invention" 馃摑 One man gets the patent. One continent gets erased. In 1826, Vicente Lanuza filed a patent for the "bottomless bucket"鈥攁 revolutionary water-lifting device that transformed Argentine cattle ranching overnight. One worker on horseback could water 2,000 head of cattle in eight hours. But according to historian Andrew Sluyter, Lanuza almost certainly didn't invent it. Between 1800-1806, approximately 2,175 enslaved and free Senegambians arrived on the A
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