He goes through the histories of a lot of inventions and inventors. And finds some surprising stories.

于是他研究了许多发明物的历史及其相关发明家，因而发现了一些令人惊奇的故事。

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Our society will be dark and seace our developments without originalities, if you know how the large sums of inventions were thought up by those inventors.

你要是知道那么多的新发明是怎么被创造出来的，你就会明白，没了创造性，人类社会将会停滞不前，进入黑暗。

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In the past year or so, inventors and start-up companies have taken to Kickstarter to fund production of their inventions and to get their businesses off the ground.

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