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The wonderful progress of the present century is, in very great degree, due to the invention and improvement of the steam-engine.
— Robert Henry Thurston
The wonderful progress of the present century is, in very great degree, due to the invention and improvement of the steam-engine.
Great inventions are never, and great discoveries are seldom, the work of any one mind. Every great invention is really an aggregation of minor inventions, or the final step of a progression. It is not usually a creation, but a growth, as truly so as is the growth of the trees in the forest.
