The cliché is true: successful new products sometimes really are drawn on paper napkins. In 1968, a Gary, Indiana fire captain named Clyde McMillan sketched a new automatic fire hose nozzle on a napkin, and soon thereafter began manufacturing it in his basement. That business is now Task Force Tips, is still in the McMillan family, and employs some 180 people who design, manufacture, and sell precision nozzles used by firefighters worldwi

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