THE BRAINIEST AGE
Statistics compiled by a group of expert psychologists reveal many interesting facts about tho age at which different types of men reach their highest pitch of efficiency. The average age at which twenty of the greatest inventions were produced is 32. Wireless telcgranhy. the selfbinding reaper, and the vacuum air brake were largely developed by men in their twenty-second year. Tlie inventors of the steam turbine and the steam engine were each in their thirtieth year when their efforts were crowned with success, while the inventor of the sowing machine was 26. and the discoverer of the process of producing aluminium cheaply 23. Wilbur Wright, tho pioneer aviator, conquered the air when he was 38. Edison was 30 when he invented the incandescent lamp.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12507, 24 July 1926, Page 19
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127THE BRAINIEST AGE New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12507, 24 July 1926, Page 19
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