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The history of technology includes brilliant inventors and their world-changing inventions, and technological progress is a result of hard work, trial and error, and, sometimes, lucky accidents. But how does an inventor bring an idea to life and keep their ideas from being stolen? Learn about some inventors, their ideas, and how they have competed against or cooperated with one another.