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The Biggest Innovation Ever
The first controlled conversion of heat into work. This is the key break through that made the whole industrial revolution possible, if not inevitable. Mat riadley wrote this book on a laptop, power by electricity. Weeyou got huge turboines being spun at high speed by steam generated by something else burning. That's the train, the power station for us. To day, we got electricity coming from wires, from a power station. And it eventually was a thing that turned heat into work - and really that's when the world was never the same again.
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