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Those inventions were incremental progress by individual inventors. Not a directed research and development project. If you know of one that existed prior to t
by WalterBright 2y ago
Those inventions were incremental progress by individual inventors. Not a directed research and development project.
If you know of one that existed prior to the Wright, I'd like to hear about it.
The Apollo program is a stellar(!) example of a directed research and development project. They started with a goal, identified the problems, solved each problem in an organized manner, and put the solutions together and accomplished the goal.
- mrguyorama 2y agoSee https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_longitude#Government_initiatives https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_longitude#Governmen... John Harrison invented very stable clocks that could be used on an unstable platform to solve the problem.
- WalterBright 2y agoHarrison's work is very interesting. But it seems to have been a one-off.