Original sentence: Early technocracy organisations formed after the First World War, these included Henry Gantt's "The New Machine" and Thorten's Veblen's "Soviet of Technicians".However, the "Soviet of Technicians" resulted in a series of lectures that were attended by Howard Scott, a progressive engineer, who was later influential in the technocracy movement.The technocracy movement has its origins in the progressive engineers of the late 19th century and the works of Thorsten Veblen, especially "Engineers and the price system" as well as Scientific management
Edited sentence: Early technocracy 'like' organisations formed after the First World War, these included Henry Gantt's "The New Machine" and Thorten's Veblen's "Soviet of Technicians".However, the "Soviet of Technicians" resulted in a series of lectures that were attended by Howard Scott, a progressive engineer, who became the founder of the technocracy movement.The technocracy movement has its intellectual origins in the progressive engineers of the late 19th century and the works of Thorsten Veblen, especially "Engineers and the price system" as well as Scientific management