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Innovation runs deep in Texas, with inventions like the hand-held calculator (think Texas Instruments), 3D printing and Dell Computers all tracing their roots back to the Lone Star State. It may even be thanks to Texas that you’re reading this right now, that is, if you’re scrolling on your phone or computer, as Texas is also responsible for the 1958 invention of the first integrated circuit and, circumstantially, the first step in the invention of the microchip.
With an expanding footprint that could fit Boston, Minneapolis, Miami, New York City, San Francisco, Seattle and Washington, D.C. within its borders, Houston, with “Sprawl City” among its multiple nicknames, may strike as a place where unique discoveries are lost or hard to find amid its metropolitan immensity.