By looking into our past and bringing invention stories to life, we are all reminded that regular people, like you and me, were able to come up with __________________ ideas that ended up having a great impact.

SUCCESS

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Knowing the past can help you create the future. If you are looking for invention inspiration, background for an __________________ project, or just have a curious mind – read about famous inventions. The stories of great inventions are fascinating.

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Famous inventions stories

Have you ever wondered how the most famous inventions were created? From the _________BEGIN_________ of time, humans everywhere have been inventing.

By looking into our past and bringing invention stories to life, we are all reminded that regular people, like you and me, were able to come up with ________SUCCESS__________ ideas that ended up having a great impact.

Knowing the past can help you create the future. If you are looking for invention inspiration, background for an _______EDUCATION___________ project, or just have a curious mind – read about famous inventions. The stories of great inventions are fascinating.

Some great inventions were created ________SIMPLE__________ by mistake, others by trial and error.

Some ________INVENT__________ of the most well-known products have incredible stories of innovation to tell.

Some of them were not aware at the time of their inventions that their _________CREATE_________ would have a great impact on the world, while others realised immediately that they had a winner.

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Some great inventions were created __________________ by mistake, others by trial and error.

SIMPLE

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Some __________________ of the most well-known products have incredible stories of innovation to tell.

INVENT

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Some of them were not aware at the time of their inventions that their __________________ would have a great impact on the world, while others realised immediately that they had a winner.

CREATE

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My company

In 1978 I was chairman of Cooper’s, a company which ran 127 vehicles of various weights and sizes. We A22 ______ in transporting goods by road.

My father had founded the firm in 1931, starting out with three vehicles – two of them driven by the time we became Cooper & Son in 1967, the company had A23 ______ in obtaining seventeen big trucks and delivered goods all over the north of England.

My father insisted that I leave school the moment I passed my O levels. “I’ll teach you more about the real world in a month than you’d learn from any of those university types in a lifetime,” he A24 ______ to say. I followed his advice and never A25 ______ it. I left school a few weeks after my sixteenth birthday. The next morning I joined Cooper’s as an apprentice, and spent my first three years at the depot under the watchful eye of Buster Jackson, the works manager. He taught me how to take the company’s trucks A26 ______ and, more important, how to put them back together again.

After graduating from the workshop, I spent five years in different departments. When my father retired in 1977 – at the age of seventy – I took over as chairman. Then I began to set in motion some ideas I’d been working on for the past decade, A27 ______ I knew my father didn’t approve of them. I never A28 ______ him, but Europe was only the beginning of my plans for the company’s expansion.

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concentrated

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focused

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specialized

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devoted

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kept

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held

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took

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dissatisfied

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regretted

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