Greater Boston, with a strong network of higher education, buttressed by a financial and legal infrastructure, has consistently developed individuals like Frederic Tudor or Elias Howe and attracts people like King C. Gillette or Percy Spencer.

	Ice: Visualizing an Industry
	Sewing Machine
	The Inventor in Boston
	Not Just One Inventor: Telephone and Light bulb: U.S. Electric Lighting Company
	Bicycle Design and Manufacture: Columbia Bicycle Co.
	Dentistry and Golf: An Unlikely Pairing: Harvard Dept. of Mechanical Dentistry
	Inventing a Razor and Dreaming of a Utopia: Gillette
	Architectural Acoustics: A New Science Symphony Hall
	Stopping Time: A New Stroboscope: MIT
	Related Inventions: Radar and the Microwave Oven: Raytheon
	First Instant Camera: Polaroid
	Sorting Good Electronics from Bad: Teradyne
	To the Moon and Back: Developing an Inertial Guidance System: The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc