¶ Ninety-Two Elements: Chart of Rate of Acquisition (1)
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Ninety-Two Elements: Chart of Rate of Acquisition:
"I have sought fundamental information on the experiences of man on Earth which might govern the shape of all developments men are experiencing. Charts of inventions, for example, are not satisfactory as the list is open-ended and is difficult to assess in terms of the relative importance of specific inventions. The significant area of information is the rate at which scientists have successively isolated the chemical elements.
“This is the most important pattern of discovery with which man deals, embracing, as it does, all physical phenomena. The rate at which man found chemical elements seems to be the key controlling the development of the application of science to technology, and following from this, the application and effect of that technology on economics and, ultimately, the effect of the new technology on society itself.”
“The chart… ‘Profile of the Industrial Revolution,’ begins”
