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How the invention of smartphones changed baseball’s clubhouse camaraderie

A former major-leaguer who spent the bulk of his career in the 1990s recently was invited back by his old team to participate in a marketing event. As part of the weekend’s activities, he and some of his former teammates got to visit their old clubhouse a …
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How the invention of paper changed the world

The Gutenberg printing press – invented in the 1440s by Johannes Gutenberg, a goldsmith from Mainz in Germany – is widely considered to be one of humanity’s defining inventions. Gutenberg figured out how to make large quantities of durable metal type and …
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The invention that changed music forever

(CNN)”Do you believe in life after love?” Cher used to sing. And if you’ve ever heard that song, you might now have an earworm in your head. The singer’s 1998 comeback track marked the first prominent use of a technology called “Auto-Tune”, a pitch …
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13 Accidental Inventions That Changed the World – Entrepreneur


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13 Accidental Inventions That Changed the World
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Lots of the things we rely on to cure our diseases, cook our meals, and sweeten our days weren't deliberately designed. Instead, they were a happy accident. Read on to see how society-shaping inventions — from Coca-Cola to penicillin and the microwave …

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