, if brought to life now, could hardly be con-vinced that this is the planet on which they spent theirlives. Just imagine their amazement as they would viewour lightning express trains, our steamships, our elec-tric lights, electric cars, telephones, telegraphs, twine-bind-ers, sewing machines, and… … f ul times in which we are now living ? And have you not sometimes reflected on what they may signify? The Scientific American celebrated its fiftieth anniver-sary by publishing in its issue of July 25, 1896, an outlinehistory of the great advancement in the way of inventionsand discoveries during…
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