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[Richard Knoppow]

    Western Union and the Creation of the American Corporate Order, 
1845-1893
by Joshua D. Wolff

    The failure of W.U. to recognize the value of the Bell patents is 
one of the greatest business blunders in history.  You may know that 
Chester Carlson offered his copying machine patent to Kodak. They turned 
it down. One of the directors, C.E.K.Mees, creator of the Kodak Research 
Labs, said, "We are a chemical company and this is not a chemical 
product".  Carlson then took it to a small competitor, the Haloid 
Company, who made primarily photo copying gear and the bought it  and a 
couple of years later became Xerox.
    My reaction to Steve Jobs is that most of the queer stuff he did was 
not necessary or productive. He may have alienated people who could have 
been important contributors. However smart he may have been he must have 
had a serious psychological problem. Unfortunately, people like that are 
often successful in business.

-- 
Richard Knoppow
1oldlens1 at ix.netcom.com
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