(1) created, developed and patented [(2)] a series of items, which he tried to sell through his company. Though they never took off in his time a Danish carpenter was inspired by these designs, and started manufacturing them through his company (X). They eventually became wildly popular.

Identify (1), (2) and (X)

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sidsen: As you wish :) If your valiant efforts at training bots do work out, we’ll soon be seeing really smart learning machines. And at that point I, for one, will welcome our artificially intelligent spambot overlords. However, till then, are there any known bots (spam or otherwise) that are capable of learning from context, yet? I am very intrigued by the concept.

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