E-ink is one of my favorite modern inventions.

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The light bulb is easily one of the most important inventions of modern history, so functional that it has barely changed in the last 100 years or so.

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In order to get one of the greatest inventions of the modern age, in other words, we thought we needed the solitary genius.

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The golden age of American productivity growth followed what is called the second industrial revolution, in 1860-1900, which yielded a cluster of genuinely paradigm-shifting inventions: electric power, the internal combustion engine, modern industrial chemistry and telecommunications.

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