Skyscrapers: A Bona Fide American Invention

The skyscraper is without any argument an American invention. We may have to fight with the French over who was the first to put a plane in the air, and anything that Thomas Edison took credit for inventing was probably actually invented either by a foreigner or an immigrant to America, but no other country in the world can put up an authentic argument claiming to be the home of the skyscraper. High-five yourself Americans, don't you deserve to feel good about you country again after the Bush Decade made so many of us take to ending all our sentenced with "eh" so we could fool people we were Canadian? Er, that is, Canadian, eh?