You can argue this way about anything. Nearly every invention or innovation is an evolution of an earlier invention. Very few things are radically new things. They are generally evolutions of earlier things.
What is a micro-computer other than an evolution of a computer which invented in Europe. Between Britain and Germany you had the development of digital, analog and binary computers which were mechanical, electromechanical and electronic. Programmable computers and computers with stored programs were all all invented in Europe.
Integrated circuits were first theorized in Britain and first simple implementations made in Germany. The US was first who mass produced them. But it was not like the idea was novel. It was well known in Europe. It was more a question of commercialization.
So the field of computer was invented in Europe. Whole field of powered vehicles was invented in Europe: Steam cars, electric cars, internal combustion engine cars, steam boats, steam trains, internal combustion engine boasts. You name it. All done in Europe first.
First powered airplane made in Europe. It just didn't work very well. The wright brothers could sustain controlled flight much longer.
Airships, powered and unpowered all developed in Europe.
Most communication systems developed in Europe, whether optical or electrical such as the telegraph and telefax.
While the US came to dominate the transistor based industry, it was developed concurrently in Europe. Again more active commercialization in the US, rather than Americans having some unique and completely novel insight into transistors. The whole concept of transistors got first theorized by Europeans.
Television whether mechanical or electronic got developed in Europe. The Cathode ray tube which dominated for many decades until flat screen came, is a European inventions. Flat screens themselves is hard to pinpoint who made because so many people were involved in various designs. Yet the fundamental physics got developed in Europe.
Rockets and the math and physics around rockets got largely developed in Europe. The US built a space industry by using caputured German rocket scientists and by having the actual funds to build them while Germany was really just a pile of rubble after WW2.
Mobile phone systems was dominated by Europe either through first patents for the whole concept or first working solutions such as the Ericcsson phones that you carried in your car.
There are very few fields Europe has not pioneered or not played a major role. It is just that in some areas the US has had far more commercial activity. Despite the US not inventing the car it got into mass producing cheap cars earlier and building car oriented society earlier. Hence we think of cars as American. Lots of things are like that even if Americans did not really develop the fundamental technology.
