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Dayton and the invention business
1884
Dayton, Ohio
Csnoke · CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
For a stretch around 1900 Dayton held more patents per head than any American city. The cash register, the electric car starter, the parachute, the pop-top can and the stepladder all came out of it, and National Cash Register trained a generation of managers who spread the methods everywhere.
That was 1 of the hidden places.
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