From "[Bell] suggested the basic lines of research, furnished the financial resources, and then allowed his associates to receive the credit for many of the inventions that resulted." I don't think I was ever motivated by the notion of winning prizes, although I have a couple of dozen of them in the other room. Kelly seems to have believed that the desire to impress your boss was a corrosive force, and so new discoveries and inventions were steadily percolated up to him and other leadership layer-by-layer one to two weeks at a time.
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Published at: 2025-05-11 20:47:20
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