Fortunately for us, the ability to adapt to changing circumstances remains America’s greatest advantage in the global marketplace. Our true superpower is our ability to adapt inventions for the greatest economic and social benefit. However, his adaptation of this industrial technique to the manufacture of automobiles was world-changing. The Persian Empire under Cyrus the Great created a sophisticated relay courier system called the “Angarium” thousands of years ago. In 1907, two American teenagers founded the American Messenger Company that evolved into UPS.