George Wise, the author of Willis R. Whitney, General Electric, and the Origins of US. Industrial Research (Columbia University Press, 1985), wrote about Eliphalet Nott in our Spring/Summer 1990 issue.
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Spring/Summer 1991
Niels Christensen invented a basic component of modern industry—the O-ring—entirely alone and without fully understanding how it worked
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Spring/Summer 1990
Eliphalet Nott saw the future and tried to gamble his way there
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Spring/Summer 1988
He helped make household electricity possible for all of us, but he couldn’t invent fame or independence for himself Read >>
