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The steam engine and cheap cast iron and steel revolutionized transportation as well as construction.
Energy and Civilization
Vaclav Smil
The merit of style exists precisely in that it delivers the greatest number of ideas in the fewest number of words.
Reality Hunger
David Shields
Columbus stuck to this error for the rest of his life. The idea that he had discovered a completely unknown continent was inconceivable for him and for many of his generation.
Sapiens
Yuval Noah Harari
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