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How Innovation Works: And Why It Flourishes in Freedom
Kendrick and Eldering received very little recognition for this work, turning down most requests from the media even decades later, and little financial reward. They shared their methods and formulae freely all over the world. They did everything right: chose a vital problem, did the crucial experiments to solve it, worked with communities to test ... See more
Matt Ridley • How Innovation Works: And Why It Flourishes in Freedom
Democracy does not exist and free speech is impossible. I repeat: the stories of innovation that I have documented in this book teach a lesson that it relies heavily on freedom.
Matt Ridley • How Innovation Works: And Why It Flourishes in Freedom
The genius of the Wright brothers was precisely that they realized they were in an incremental, iterative process and did not expect to build a flying machine at the first attempt.
Matt Ridley • How Innovation Works: And Why It Flourishes in Freedom
The astonishing safety record of the modern airline industry has been achieved, quite literally, by trial and error.
Matt Ridley • How Innovation Works: And Why It Flourishes in Freedom
The truth is that autonomous vehicles are possible but in fairly limited circumstances, and that this may not change as fast as people think, in the real world. Huge amounts of driver assistance will surely come, or are here already, so that cars can detect and avoid obstacles, cruise on motorways and freeways, parallel-park and warn the driver of ... See more
Matt Ridley • How Innovation Works: And Why It Flourishes in Freedom
There is no day when you can say: computers did not exist the day before and did the day after, any more than you could say that one ape-person was an ape and her daughter was a person.
Matt Ridley • How Innovation Works: And Why It Flourishes in Freedom
clearer. Innovation happens, as I put it a decade ago, when ideas have sex. It occurs where people meet and exchange goods, services and thoughts. This explains why innovation happens in places where trade and exchange are frequent and not in isolated or underpopulated places: California rather than North Korea,
Matt Ridley • How Innovation Works: And Why It Flourishes in Freedom
Fritz Haber’s discovery of how to fix nitrogen from the air, using pressure and a catalyst, was a great invention. But it was Carl Bosch’s years of hard experiment, overcoming problem after problem and borrowing novel ideas from other industries that eventually led to the manufacture of ammonia on a large scale and at a price that society could aff
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His name was Joseph Wilson Swan. It was at the Literary and Philosophical Society in Newcastle on 3 February 1879, in front of an audience of 700 people, that he first demonstrated that he could illuminate a room – for his lecture – with an evacuated glass bulb containing a carbon filament, through which a current passed.