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Tales from the history of innovation. Click to read Age of Invention, by Anton Howes, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.

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He was born, farmed, and died at Dishley, much like his father before him. But Robert Bakewell, unlike most people, caught the improving mentality, or attitude — the one thing all inventors, both then and now, have in common — which had him viewing everything around him in terms of its capacity for betterment. The…