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by eru
312 days ago
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Turbine generators are a pretty late development (invented in 1884 for propulsion, not electricity generation). See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity#Cultural_perceptio... > It is said that in the 1850s, British politician William Ewart Gladstone asked the scientist Michael Faraday why electricity was valuable. Faraday answered, "One day sir, you may tax it." That admittedly apocryphal anecdote is set 30 years before the turbine you mentioned was invented. |
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