‘It took longer to launch a new product than our nation to fight World War 2’ said an engineer in the Grinders team at Ingersoll Rand. It took them 4 years to make a new tool. They were mocked as the ‘Toolies’ in their own company. ‘We’ve had enough’ said Stryker, the leader of theContinue reading “The Drag Test”
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The Current Wars
‘There is $50,000 for you, if you can do it’. Edison told Tesla. He hired him in 1884 to redesign his DC generator and make it efficient. Tesla cracked it but Edison just paid him $10 extra on his $18 weekly pay. Tesla was enraged. He quit working for Edison and found an ally inContinue reading “The Current Wars”
A Conversation can start a Movement
‘Mr. Khurody, buffaloes give double the milk in winter and I don’t know how to plug their udders. You have to take all the milk’ pleaded the young manager. ‘But the people of Bombay don’t drink 1 bottle of milk in summer and 2 in winter. It’s your problem, not mine’. Mr Khurody was theContinue reading “A Conversation can start a Movement”
Instant Julius!
World War 1 saw the biggest spike in working women in history. Millions were called upon to fill in for men on the war front leaving families behind. Julius was the youngest of five children in one such family of Italian born mill owners in the Swiss village of Kempathal, Zurich. Young Julius saw hisContinue reading “Instant Julius!”
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