Abraham Lincoln: A Two-Way Innovator
Abraham Lincoln was a skilled mechanical tinkerer, holding the only U.S. presidential patent for a device that buoyed vessels over shoals. He was a problem-to-solution inventor, having observed and solved real-life issues, as well as a solution-to-problem inventor, envisioning hypothetical solutions and then connecting them with worthy problems. Lincoln excelled in utilizing the telegraph to win the Civil War and is credited with developing the modern electronic leadership model.