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Some inventions are thanks to one eureka moment, but most of our most pioneering inventions were the work of several innovative thinkers who made incremental improvements over many years.

Charles W. Chappelle designed a long-distance airplane in the early 1900s and displayed his design at the 1911 First ...

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