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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 law governing both bubbles and nebula is the same. The difference between them is only relative in point of time. Both disappear when they cease to whirl, for their appearance of existence is due solely to the heat energy of motion.
The Universal One
Walter Russell
Much of good software design is simply about partitioning—creating appropriate places to put different kinds of code. This separation of concerns makes the code much simpler to understand and maintain.
Clean Code
Robert C. Martin
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