This Month In the History of Information Technologies

This Month In the History of Information Technologies

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Dean Kamen

Dean Kamen

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Today in 1951, inventor Dean Kamen was born.

Chloe Sorvino wrote in 2016: College dropout turned inventor Dean Kamen is one of the most prolific tinkerers of our time. Though he's perhaps best-known for inventing the Segway, he's been called the next Thomas Edison particularly for his life-changing innovations in treatments aimed at illnesses ranging fro…

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