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Dawn of science

23. The quest for power

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The practical necessity for developing steam power came from the rapid deforestation in England in the seventeenth century.

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  1. Henry Winram Dickinson, A short history of the steam engine, Cambridge University Press, 1939.

  2. J Meidenbauer (Ed.), Discoveries and Inventions, Dumont Monte, 2002.

  3. Isaac Asimov, Asimov’s Biographical Encyclopedia of Science and Technology, Doubleday, 1982.

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  1. IUCAA, Pune University Campus, Post Bag 4, Ganeshkhind Pune, 411 007, India

    T. Padmanabhan

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T Padmanabhan works at IUCAA, Pune and is interested in all areas of theoretical physics, especially those which have something to do with gravity.

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Padmanabhan, T. Dawn of science. Reson 17, 436–440 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12045-012-0046-3

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