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Lessons from Famous "Invention Factories" Past and Present Did you know that the incandescent lightbulb first emerged some thirty years before Thomas Edison famously "turned night into day"? Or that Henry Ford's revolutionary assembly line came from an unlikely blend of observations from... read more
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"In 1877, on a single workbench, sat a small collection of objects that would in the next few years profoundly change the technological landscape of America and, in short order, the rest of the world."
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- Andrew Hargadon (Author)
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