It’s easy to look back at Benjamin Franklin and his contemporaries like Joseph Priestley, who discovered that plants produced oxygen, and Thomas Jefferson, who improved the printing press and the plow, and marvel. How did they come up with so many new discoveries? According to Steven Johnson, author of the book The Invention of Air, the answer is process. They lived at a time when there was suddenly an easy-to-use method for discovery: the scientific method. Hypothesize, test, learn, repeat.

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