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Man has always built machines, but the nineteenth century was the century of machines. The Great Exhibitions were the great showcases to show the achievements of technology. A new way of describing machines was also born at that time. Even poets and writers therefore participate in the evolution of science and technology because they build myths in the collective imagination. Their words reach us, and they help us to reconstruct a past century, to understand ours and imagine the future.
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Pozzi, M. (2022). The Monolith: Epic of the Mechanical Progress, from the Great Exhibition to a Space Odyssey. In: Quaglia, G., Gasparetto, A., Petuya, V., Carbone, G. (eds) Proceedings of I4SDG Workshop 2021. I4SDG 2021. Mechanisms and Machine Science, vol 108. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-87383-7_63
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