Although the man in the street may not know it, modern life is full of the inventions of Donald Stookey. His ingenuity lies behind the screens of tablets and mobile phones; behind glasses that fade to black as the sun comes out; behind the nose-cones of guided missiles, and cook-ware so sturdy that you can broil it in the oven, plunge it in the fridge and drop it on a stone floor, with damage to nothing but the souffle that was in it.
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