The scientific facts taken into account for inventing the steam-engine, or the telegraph, or the phonograph were strikingly elementary.
Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin: “The scientific facts taken into account for inventing the steam-engine, or the telegraph, or the phonograph were…”
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Kropotkin remarks on the elementary scientific facts involved in the invention of major technologies like the steam-engine and telegraph.
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