Registering a business, explains an unemployed textile engineer, risks drawing the attention of government officials.

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All that changed when he set up shop in Menlo Park, New Jersey, and cobbled together a team that included, among others, a German glassblower, an African American engineer, a Swiss watchmaker, an American mathematician, and a British textile machinist.

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