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The practical methodologies evolved over many years, and were largely the work of John Hall, a gunsmith from Portland, Maine, and inventor of the “Hall carbine” that became notorious when muckrakers dug into the youthful Pierpont Morgan’s dealings with Civil War procurement authorities.
Charles R. Morris • The Tycoons: How Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and J. P. Morgan Invented the American Supereconomy
Within a few years, James Clerk Maxwell transforms Faraday’s visionary insight into a system of equations describing the fields. He grasps that light is nothing but a swift ripple upon these webs, and that these ripples, at greater wavelengths, can bear signals. Hertz reproduces them in the laboratory,
Carlo Rovelli • Anaximander: And the Birth of Science
Doomberg • The Other Strategic Reserve
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Malcolm Hopper. He's brilliant. A scientist? A scientist. Jehovah's Witness. He was probably one of the German scientists brought here from Germany after World War II. One of the rocket scientists. Not a Nazi but being pressured by them and being freed really to come here. And he developed the turbo jet and the government used it on war planes
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