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Here Is Where: Discovering America's Great Forgotten History by Andrew Carroll

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By Andrew Carroll

Here Is the place chronicles Andrew Carroll’s eye-opening – and now and then hilarious -- trip throughout the United States to discover and discover unmarked ancient websites the place notable moments happened and memorable members as soon as lived. Sparking the belief for this e-book was once Carroll’s stopover at to the spot the place Abraham Lincoln’s son used to be stored by way of the brother of Lincoln’s murderer. Carroll puzzled, How many other unmarked locations are there the place fascinating occasions have opened up and that we stroll previous each day, no longer knowing their significance? to respond to that question, Carroll eventually trekked to each sector of the rustic -- by means of motor vehicle, educate, airplane, helicopter, bus, motorbike, and kayak and strolling. one of the issues he learned:
 
*Where in North the US the oldest pattern of human DNA was once discovered
* the place America’s deadliest maritime catastrophe came about, a calamity worse than the destiny of the Titanic
*Which almost unknown American scientist stored enormous quantities of hundreds of thousands of lives
*Which well-known Prohibition agent was once the brother of a infamous gangster
*How a 14-year-old farm boy’s brainstorm resulted in the construction of television
 
Featured prominently in Here Is the place are an abundance of firsts (from the 1st use of contemporary anesthesia to the 1st cremation to the 1st homicide conviction in response to forensic evidence); outrages (from riots to massacres to compelled sterilizations); and breakthroughs (from the discovery, within a jail, of a progressive weapon; to the restoration, deep within the Alaskan tundra, of a super-virus; to the construction of the rocket that made attainable area travel). Here Is Where is carefully pleasing, yet it’s additionally a profound reminder that the locations we go through frequently harbor extraordinary secrets and techniques and that there are numerous different extraordinary tales nonetheless available in the market, ready to be found. 

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Entrepreneurial and independent minded as these gifted inventors may have been, in order to secure a return to, and obtain support for, their inventive activity, they were willing to move and make the longer-term, if not career-long, commitments that those who were putting up the capital increasingly demanded. Rather than maintaining their independent status, these inventors usually became principals—not employees—of the firms established to exploit their technological discoveries, and they committed themselves (generally on quite favorable terms) to stay with the new firm for a period of years and to transfer their patents to it.

See Khan and Sokoloff (2004). Introduction 31 6. The design of the patent system in Britain discouraged trade in patents in other ways as well. For example, the high fees encouraged many inventors to extract returns by keeping their discoveries secret rather than by filing for patents and marketing their inventions to those better positioned to directly exploit them. This inclination toward secrecy was encouraged by the ability of those with wealth to patent the inventions of others who lacked the resources to pay the fee.

Mowery (1983, 1995). As Mowery shows, one also sees during this period the emergence of large companies such as Arthur D Little, that conducted R&D on contract in a broad range of technologies. 20. For example, Alfred Sloan argued that the abundant resources large corporations could offer technologically creative individuals expanded their range of possibilities, and cited the career of Charles Kettering, who was instrumental in developing the self-starter, quick-drying paints, improved blends of gasoline, improved designs of engines, as well as Freon for General Motors.

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