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How A Great Invention By Edison Was Lost

And the moral of the story is: backup backup backup.

HOW A GREAT INVENTION BY EDISON WAS LOST: Separated Fiber by a Liquid Compound, But an Assistant Threw the Secret Away (PDF)

From July 9, 1911

David

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