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In 1981, seven engineers in Pune, India, decided to start a software company. None of them had any money. Narayana Murthy, the oldest …
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On September 16, 1985, Steve Jobs walked out of Apple, the company he’d co-founded in his parents’ garage nine years earlier. The board …
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At 4 a.m. on June 4, 1896, Henry Ford finished building his first automobile in a brick shed behind his rented duplex in …
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On April 12, 1955, CBS broadcaster Edward R. Murrow asked Jonas Salk who owned the patent to his polio vaccine. Salk’s answer became …
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Most people think of Benjamin Franklin as the kite-and-lightning guy. Or maybe the guy on the $100 bill. But Franklin lived 84 years …
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George Washington Carver did not invent peanut butter. The Aztecs made ground peanut paste centuries earlier. A Canadian pharmacist patented peanut paste in …
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Thomas Edison held 1,093 patents. He gave us the phonograph, improved the light bulb, and built the first commercial electric power system. But …
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In September 1928, Alexander Fleming returned from vacation to find mold growing on a petri dish he had left out. The bacteria around …