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S.B. from Manchester

Modern industry is, of course built up almost entirely on the use of machinery on a large scale - a use not originated, but enormously strengthened by the discovery of steam. Since then electric power has become available, and machinery of all sorts has grown steadily vaster and more complicated, until it bears very little resemblance to the original power-looms, for instance, that drew industry from the cottage to the factory a century and a-half ago. Mr. Cressy is just the sort of talker to give the strange story of the machine - the story, in reality, of our modern civilisation - its full appeal.

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Edward Cressy

2LO London

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