Satisfied customers
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Josiah Wedgwood was a 17th-century English who created the first crockery for the masses. He repaired fake porcelain and created fake Greek pieces. Consumers today have Wedgewood and other entrepreneurs to thank for democratic industrial concepts such as customer satisfaction.
Publication Name: Scientific American
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8733
Year: 1996
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What goes around comes around
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An assortment of topics is discussed including the Saturn V launch vehicles, buzz bombs, the Humane Society movement and the invention of the daguerrotype photographic device. Also discussed are the discoveries of physiologist Claude Bernard and his experiments with rabbits.
Publication Name: Scientific American
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8733
Year: 1996
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The O zone
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The connections are traced between the 1839 discovery of ozone by Christian Schonbein and the 1913 discovery by Charles Fabry that ozone provides a protective layer for earth.
Publication Name: Scientific American
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8733
Year: 1999
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