Bigger, Better, Faster: A History of Innovation in Metro Seattle

The Woodinville Heritage Society is sponsoring a free presentation on innovation in Seattle. This from the event's webpage:

Explore the exciting history of local inventiveness in technological, civic, artistic, and political change, characteristic of metropolitan Seattle residents. This program is richly illustrated with images from patent drawings to New Deal public art murals, Century 21’s Space Needle, and Windows 95. Why is this place so productive of innovation? Is it the rain, the Big Dark, the University of Washington, the global position on the Pacific Rim?
Lorraine McConaghy is a public historian, who earned her Ph.D. in history at the UW. Author of several books, McConaghy is currently working on research to track deserters from the Royal Navy and the U.S. Navy in the 1850s Pacific Northwest.

More info at the event webpage:
https://www.woodinvilleheritage.com/event/bigger-better-faster-a-history-of-innovation-in-metro-seattle-by-lorraine-mcconaghy/
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ABOUT THE SEATTLE HISTORY FIELD TRIPS MEETUP

We are amateur historians with an interest in Seattle. Newbies to Seattle are most welcome. Once a quarter, or so, this group organizes a field trip to visit sites which are significant in Seattle's history, and to share what we know about them. In the past we have visited the gravesites of important personages and the locations of famous events. This Meetup is for anyone who has an interest in Seattle's history or who would like to learn more about the founding and growth of Seattle and the surrounding cities, towns, native peoples, highways, dams, natural resources, industries, famous events & dignitaries, famous visitors, etc.