Steam Engines and Transport Innovators
Patented: History of Inventions
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The Gap Between Invention and Innovation
I think that when you look at the improvements in human living standards over the last two or three hundred years, which are truly extraordinary and global, the fact that we were innovating is not quite enough to explain it. So for me, it's interesting to think of innovation as a sort of anti entropy thing. Entropy is the tendency of everything to get disordered and useless. But if you put energy into a system, you can make it do useful things for you,. Actually, I think your favorite invention was the conversion of heat to work as your sort of primary number one most important invention of all time. From which we get the steam engine, of course, but actually that's
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