November 18, 2008
As part of Global Entrepreneurship Week, FPRI presented two 45-minute webcasts on Innovation and Entrepreneurship for secondary schools/classes; students viewed each webcast live online and participated the Q&A periods which followed.
Lawrence Husick, Senior Fellow at FPRI and co-director of its Wachman Center program on Teaching the History of Innovation, discussed modern online services’ development, from from an early form of telegraph, through Napoleon’s France, to Samuel Morse, Alexander Graham Bell, “Ma” Bell, Bell Labs, and then finally to BitNet, ARPANet, the Internet and World Wide Web.
Available are Lawrence Husick’s Answers to Student Questions posed during the webcast. For related videos, papers, classroom lessons, and other resources, visit FPRI’s Program on Teaching Innovation.