Manual workers--not men of science nor trained engineers--have invented, or brought to perfection, the prime motors and all that mass of machinery which has revolutionised industry for the last hundred years.
Kropotkin credits manual workers with the invention and perfection of machinery that transformed industry over the past century.
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