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The real reason Thomas Edison’s first invention failed

Recent history has not been kind to Thomas Edison. Once remembered as a titan of creative thought, today he’s become more or less synonymous with the corrupt underpinnings of American industrialism …
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‘Rufus Porter’s Curious World: Art and Invention in America, 1815-1860’ Review: Products of a Failed Polymath

A museum profile of the eccentric inventor, painter, publisher and proselytizer whose endeavors rarely succeeded.
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Kaloyeros says SUNY failed to commercialize his chip invention

Alain Kaloyeros, a former president of the State University of New York’s Polytechnic Institute, arrives to federal court in New York, Thursday, July 12, 2018. A federal jury in New York on Thursday …
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Trump hailed one failed Edison invention — the electric pen – MarketWatch


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Trump hailed one failed Edison invention — the electric pen
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Speaking of 1876, when citizens around the world came to Philadelphia to celebrate America's centennial, Trump spoke of inventions showed off, including Alexander Graham Bell displaying the telephone and Remington the typewriter. “Thomas Edison …

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