The most consequential American inventor once predicted the following:

“The time will come when people will travel in stages moved by steam engines from one city to another, almost as fast as birds can fly, 15 or 20 miles an hour.”

 

People mocked the great Oliver Evans when he uttered those words. He was right, the steam engine changed the course of human history.

 

Thinking of the steam engine as technology might feel a bit out of place.

 

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