innovation 
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SOURCE: The Washington Post
6-22-15
Smithsonian to open 1st wing on innovation, business history
A wide range of innovations from Eli Whitney’s cotton gin and Thomas Edison’s light bulb to the early Google servers and Apple’s iPhone have been brought together to tell a broad story of American business history for the first time at the Smithsonian Institution.
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2-8-15
What We Can Learn from Innovators
by Walter Isaacsonis
How did the most imaginative innovators of our time turn disruptive ideas into realities?
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SOURCE: The New Yorker
6-23-14
What the gospel of innovation gets wrong
by Jill Lepore
The Disruption Machine
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SOURCE: Huffington Post
3-25-13
John J. Geoghegan: A Brief History of Book Vending Machines
John J. Geoghegan reports on unusual inventions that fail in the marketplace despite their innovative nature. His non-fiction book, Operation Storm: Japan's Top Secret Sumbarines and Its Plan to Change the Course of World Whttp://hnn.us/node/add/hnnar II, about underwater aircraft carriers designed to attack New York City and Washington, DC, as a follow up to Pearl Harbor was published in March 2013. You can visit him at http://www.operationstormbook.com/ There are lots of reasons why a white elephant technology doesn't catch on. Sometimes the technology is ahead of its time. In other cases, no amount of time can make a misguided technology useful or attractive.Then there's vending machines that sell books.
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