The small bicycle workshops, with the hundreds of small improvements which they introduced, have been under our very eyes the primary cells out of which the great industry of the motor cars, and later on of the aeroplanes, has grown up.
Kropotkin highlights the significance of small bicycle workshops in the development of larger industries.
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