Tag: Inventors
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Introducing We Built That!?: A Road Trip Across America to Discover 250+ Years of American Innovation
We Built That!? is a road trip through more than 250 years of American invention and innovation, from the ideas that shaped the nation before it existed to the technologies defining what comes next. Along the way, Jeffrey “Jeffy” Inman digs into forgotten inventors, stolen credit, contested claims, patents, power, and the overlooked contributions of…
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Illinovation | Welcome to the Prairie Forge
Illinois Has a Branding Problem; We’re Going to Fix That Illinois has a branding problem. Not the “somebody redesign the state logo” kind. This runs deeper than fonts, slogans, or another tourism campaign featuring Chicago’s skyline and a suspiciously photogenic cornfield. We are remarkably bad at telling our own story. We talk about what’s broken,…