Having thus excluded conversation and desisted from study, he had neither business nor amusement. His ideas, therefore, being neither renovated by discourse nor increased by reading, wore gradually away, till at last his anger congealed into madness.
Sunday, February 21, 2021
Archimedes' treatise on steam powered and geared mechanical devices, written circa 250 BC, destroyed at Alexandria (along with many other things) in 48 BC.
This is why we didn't start to live like the Jetson's 2,000 years ago...
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