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Behind this new kind of sharing was the Industrial Revolution, which developed in 18th century England and spread over Europe and the New World. Power-driven technology and mass production meant large-scale imports and exports - goods carried everywhere in steam-driven freighters, in railroad freight cars, on transcontinental railway systems...
...earth itself, natural steam is a familiar source of heat and power in countries as widely separated as Italy, Iceland and New Zealand. The renewed interest in the U.S. springs from a growing population's need for more electricity. In some areas, geothermal steam offers a cheap, ready-made alternative to coal, oil and nuclear fuels, and it leaves no pollutants in the air. At The Geysers, steam-driven turbines produce 58,000 kw. of electricity at a cost 23% below that of nearby conventional generating plants; in a few years, the area could be producing almost 20 times...
Such muscular diversification is all the more impressive since Caterpillar traces its origins to a single product. The original steam-driven Cat was developed in 1904 by a Californian named Benjamin Holt, who got the novel idea of mounting a tractor on its own treadmill tracks. So successful was Holt's "crawler" concept that it inspired the British invention of the armored tank during World...
...moved toward the computer. As early as 1671 Gottfried Leibnitz sought unsuccessfully to invent a mechanical calculating machine. "It is unworthy of excellent men," he wrote, "to lose hours like slaves in the labor of calculation." In 1834 an eccentric Englishman named Charles Babbage conceived the idea of a steam-driven "Analytical Engine" that in many details anticipated the basic principles of modern computers. But not until 1944 did man invent the first true computer: the Mark I, developed by Harvard Professor Howard Aiken and used to compute weapon trajectories for the U.S. Navy...
Among the exhibits at the show is a detailed model of a steam-driven fire engine about two and one-half feet long, and a series of sketches of President Kennedy...