The most absurd of all their delusions commonly called the, or to speak more accurately, the inexhaustible source of power-is, in various forms, the subject of several patents in each year. (William John Macquorn Rankine)

The most absurd of all their delusions commonly called the, or to speak more accurately, the inexhaustible source of power-is, in various forms, the subject of several patents in each year.

William John Macquorn Rankine

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