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"defended the would-be slave-eliminating-machine inventor and said, ‘I think he has a pretty good idea, and I’m going to dream that we can develop invisible power and send it over solid wire,’ again, the committee would have said, ‘Throw them both off the committee. Obviously we can’t send energy from here to there through a solid wire.’
“Soon after that time, all these inventions, and thousands of others considered equally preposterous in 1810, came to be. All the really fundamental technological changes of our world have happened since that 1810 pre-dawn of world industrialization. I have lived through the major portion of this historical development and can state incontrovertibly that not one stage of it was ever popularly anticipated until the invention had occurred and was demonstrated.”
