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Invention histories · explain why credit rarely belongs to a lone inventor

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Your new ahaNew tools usually build on prior materials, knowledge, labor, and collaboration.

An invention can combine existing components in a new arrangement rather than create every part from scratch. Source: Invention ↗

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