For Isaac Leopold Rice, inventions and patents were pieces to be fitted together. In creating ways to combine and sell them, he helped invent the modern corporation.
A long, bitter, and fascinating debate over the achievement of the Wrights kept their airplane out of its rightful place at the Smithsonian for several decades
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