Real Spark : Inventions and True Pioneers Revealed

We are taught to remember history through convenient myths. We attribute the light bulb to a single workbench in Menlo Park, the airplane to an isolated bicycle shop in Dayton, and the industrial converter to a solitary English furnace. While these dramatic narratives make for clean storytelling, they obscure a far more remarkable truth: true innovation is rarely a sudden lightning strike in a vac...