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Gutenberg's press made books 300 times faster
Before 1440 a scribe needed months to copy one book by hand. Gutenberg's movable-type press could print hundreds of pages a day, and Europe went from a few thousand books to millions within 50 years.
Inventions
Edison tested over 6,000 materials for one filament
The bulb wasn't a single flash of genius. Edison's team tried thousands of substances, including bamboo, before finding a carbon filament that glowed for more than 1,200 hours.
Inventions
The telephone patent was filed hours before a rival's
Alexander Graham Bell filed his telephone patent on 14 February 1876, only hours before Elisha Gray filed a caveat for a very similar device. Those few hours shaped the entire telecom industry.