inventors
Mr. Hughes starts off the article by explaining the prosperity of American invention from the end of the civil war to the beginning of WWI. The numbers of patents in America at this time were more than Britain, France, and Germany had all together. He will be discussing four major inventors of the time, all of which made major contributions to the electrical industry. The in inventors are Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla, inventor of modern electric-power transmission; Elmer Sperry, pioneer in the field of automatic controls; and Lee De Forest, inventor of the modern vacuum tube. The field of invention back then differed from its modern form. Today’s inventors are in industrial or governmental labs, none of the early inventors had this problem. These modern labs tend to slow down the inventive momentum of the inventor. These labs tend to make 5% refinements rather than 95% breakthroughs. There were such “think tanks” in the earlier
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Approximate Word count = 642
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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