The trajectory of human engineering and technology innovation is from the steam age, the electrical age to the digital era and the wisdom of the times.

人类工程技术革新的轨迹是从蒸汽时代、电气时代到数字时代再到智慧化时代。

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Mr Kleisterlee would like a more focused Philips, dominated by high-tech products and displaying the same pioneering spirit in the Internet age that made it an early leader in the electrical age a century ago.

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Royce, born in 1863, was the youngest of five children and started his own company manufacturing electrical and mechanical items at age 21.

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He later took up electrical engineering and set up his first company, Lexicon, in 1978 at age 31.

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