"The lesson of the laboratory was eloquent. Compared, for instance, with the elaborate, expensive, and complete apparatus of, say, the University of London, or any of the great American Universities, it was bare and unassuming to a degree. It mutely said that in the great march of science it is the genius of the man, and not the perfection of the appliances, that breaks new territory in the great territory of the unknown. ...the discoverer himself had done so much with so little."
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Academics from GermanyInventorsNobel laureates in PhysicsPhysicists from GermanyEngineers from Germany
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H.J.W. Dam, "The New Marvel in Photography," McClure's Magazine 6:403 (April, 1896)
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