Putnam highlights ‘success stories,’ local innovators

By: Dave Thompson|April 29, 2024

|5 min read

Kelly Lao, left, the vice president of museum experience and education at the Putnam Museum and Science Center, shows off the Quad City Innovators exhibit on Friday, April 26. CREDIT DAVE THOMPSON

Visitors to the new Quad City Innovators exhibit at the Putnam Museum and Science Center in Davenport will see an old chair at the start of the exhibit.

It’s a rocking and reclining chair that was invented by Charles Knell of Moline in 1874. The chair sold for $10 in its day.

Next to the chair are…

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Putnam highlights ‘success stories,’ local innovators

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