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Article: The National Inventors Hall of Fame: Aspiring Inventors Abound in America, According to New Poll.
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- September 11, 2001
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AKRON, Ohio, Sept. 11 /PRNewswire/ --
This country is home to thousands upon thousands of aspiring Thomas Edisons, Henry Fords and Steve Wozniaks, judging from the results of a new national survey.
A significant percentage of Americans -- 33 percent -- have aspired to be inventors or thought they had an idea that would make a good invention, according to the poll, sponsored by the National Inventors Hall of Fame (NIHF), based in Akron, Ohio.
"This remarkable number, one-third of the U.S. population, reveals there definitely is a spirit of inventiveness in many of us," said David Fink, NIHF president and chief executive. "It reflects the ...