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Apr 17, 2020 26 min

The Best Thing since Junction-Field Effect Transistors

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Penicillin, the printing press, and cheese and onion crisps - What makes an invention well known rather than merely successful? Things mentioned in this podcast: ‘TRIZ’ BBC poll on the ‘best invention’ Top inventions of the last 25 years ‘The most important inventor you’ve never heard of’ For more information on Aleph Insights visit our website https://alephinsights.com or to get in touch about our podcast email [email protected] This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Podtrac - https://analytics.podtrac.com/privacy-policy-gdrp

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Penicillin, the printing press, and cheese and onion crisps - What makes an invention well known rather than merely successful? Image: anaterate via Pixabay Things mentioned in this podcast: - ‘TRIZ’ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRIZ - BBC poll on the ‘best invention’ http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4513929.stm - Top inventions of the last 25 years https://www.productfocus.com/top-25-inventions-of-the-last-25-years/ - ‘The most important inventor you’ve never heard of’ https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/the-most-important-inventor-youve-never-heard-of/ For more Cognitive Engineering episodes find us on iTunes, Google Play or wherever you get your podcasts, or add this RSS feed to your preferred player https://link.chtbl.com/SQeIgc44

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