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December 2003

Other People's Progress

From the editor in chief

By Technology Review

During the first half of the 20th century, few figures spoke more authoritatively on national technological and economic matters than Charles Kettering. The "Boss" cofounded the Dayton Engineering Laboratories Company (Delco), where he invented the automotive self-starter and the Delco Light generator that powered hundreds of thousands of farms. Then, lured to Detroit by General Motors head Alfred P. Sloan Jr., he took the reins of GM's research, which pioneered four-wheel brakes and ethyl fuel. Kettering believed passionately in the power of research and development, and he had this to say in a 1929 speech to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce:

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