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A Short History of the World Chapter 57 - The Development of Material Knowledge
In which the gradual blossoming of scientific understanding and mechanical innovation during the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries quietly transformed the fabric of human industry and transportation, culminating in the advent of steam power, metallurgy, and electricity. These monumental advances subtly compressed the vast distances and limitations of the world, ushering in an era of unprecedented material mastery and signalling the dawn of profound social and economic changes yet to fully unfold.
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