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One of the great traditions of the past 15o years is American thirst for innovation and its tradition of exploring the limits of basic science. From Thomas Edison's famous workshop to Bell Labs to Silicon Valley, every American could be proud of our country's many scientific accomplishments. But this tradition
lion a year, according to recent calculations by Bloomberg News. Clearly, institutions that are above the la
ing this time that the U.S. became the world's greatest inventing nation. Samuel Morse helped create the telegraph; Eli Whitney, the cotton gin; and Thomas Edison, the light bulb, phonograph and movies. Europe remained the center of learning, culture, technology and industrial prowess, but within several gene
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ted by telegraph to a ticker tape that would continuously print out abbreviated company names (ticker symbols) followed by the price and volume data. Thomas Edison later upgraded the system to reach a printing speed of one character per second. Ticker tape eliminated the need for messengers and allowed people to
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