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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.

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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.

Robert Henry Thurston

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Robert Henry Thurston

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Born: October 25, 1839
Died: October 25, 1903 (aged 64)
Bio: Robert Henry Thurston was an American engineer, and the first Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology.
Known for:
  1. A history of the growth of the steam-engine (1878)
  2. A manual of the steam-engine (1900)
  3. Materials of Engineering (1883)

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