"Great inventions are never, and great discoveries are seldom, the work of any one mind. Every great invention is really an aggregation of minor inventions, or the final step of a progression. It is not usually a creation, but a growth, as truly so as is the growth of the trees in the forest."
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Robert Henry Thurston, "The Growth of the Steam Engine," in: Popular Science, Nov 1877, p. 11
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Robert Henry Thurston
(October 25, 1839 – October 25, 1903) was an American engineer, and the first Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology.
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