[This weekend
marks the 250th
birthday of Robert Fulton, about whose influential invention I wrote in
Friday’s post. All week I’ve AmericanStudied some of our most complex and
significant inventors—and this crowd-sourced post is drawn from the inventive
responses and thoughts of fellow AmericanStudiers. Add yours in comments,
please!]
Between my
end-of-week travels to the Southern Historical Association conference (on which
see next week’s series) and my start-of-week return from Disney World (on which
see a future series), I didn’t have a chance to beat the bushes to get
responses for this crowd-sourced post, I’m afraid. So I’ll just say two things:
1)
If you want to see my thoughts on a different
angle to and contemporary connection for these invention ideas, see this
Talking Points Memo piece;
2)
And please share your responses to the week’s
posts, or any other thoughts on inventors and inventions (American or
otherwise), in comments! Thanks!
Next series
starts Monday,
Ben
PS. Other
inventors or inventions you’d highlight?
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