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Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin: “It was not the theory of electricity which gave us the telegraph.”

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It was not the theory of electricity which gave us the telegraph.
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Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin

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Kropotkin asserts that the telegraph was developed independently of the theoretical understanding of electricity.

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