Description
| 50Innovations | 4Centuries | 160Pages | 2Boston Authors |
Boston has been a proving ground for world-changing ideas since the 1600s — home to the nation’s first public school, the first state to abolish slavery, the invention of the telephone, the first successful organ transplant, and generation after generation of biotech and robotics breakthroughs. Boston Made: From Revolution to Robotics tells the story of fifty of the region’s standout innovations, tracing the entrepreneurial culture that produced them through four major cycles of economic bust and reinvention.
Inside the book
| — | The nation’s first public school, and the culture of education that took root in colonial Boston |
| — | Massachusetts’s early move to abolish slavery, and its lasting influence on the region’s civic identity |
| — | The invention of the telephone, and the communications breakthroughs that followed it |
| — | The first successful human organ transplant, performed at a Boston hospital |
| — | Generations of biotech, medical-device, and robotics breakthroughs that carried the city’s inventive streak into the 21st century |
| — | The four boom-and-bust economic cycles that repeatedly forced the region to reinvent itself — and kept it inventing |
Meet the authors
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Dr. Robert M. Krim
Historian · Founder, Boston History & Innovation Collaborative
Krim spent years directing research into roughly 500 world-changing innovations to come out of Greater Boston. He holds a BA from Harvard and two master’s degrees plus a joint PhD/MBA from Boston College, teaches innovation and entrepreneurship at Framingham State University, and founded the Entrepreneur Innovation Center.
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Alan R. Earls
Journalist · Author
A Boston-area writer with three decades covering technology and innovation, Earls has authored or edited numerous books on pioneering companies such as Polaroid, Digital Equipment Corporation, and Raytheon, alongside other regional history titles.
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Book details
| Authors | Dr. Robert M. Krim & Alan R. Earls |
| Publisher | Charlesbridge Publishing |
| Publication date | February 23, 2021 |
| Pages | 160 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-62354-535-2 |
| Formats | Hardcover · Digital PDF |
| Subjects | American history · Science & technology · Boston & New England |
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