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Today, nothing is unusual about a scientific discovery's being followed soon after by a technical application: The discovery of electrons led to electronics; fission led to nuclear energy. But before the 1880's, science played almost no role in the advances of technology. For example, James Watt developed the first efficient steam engine long before science established the equivalence between mechanical heat and energy.
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The Fukushima nuclear complex went on to become the worst man-made engineering disaster in all of human history, outside of war.
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― Health Forensics
― Health Forensics
