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January 28, 2013 05:09 pm PST
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Excerpt from The Tinkerers, by Alec Foege
In The Tinkerers, Alec Foege presents a version of American history told through feats of engineering, large and small. He argues that reports of tinkering’s death have been greatly exaggerated; since World War II, it has been the guiding force behind projects from corporate-sponsored innovations (the personal computer, Ethernet) to smaller scale inventions with great [...]Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/aCUXWP9107g/excerpt-from-the-tinkerers-by.html
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