Mar 4, 2020
Much of what has been written is curiously impersonal and therefore unreal. It is as though the technologies were developed by a Deus Ex Machina, or by a corporate act representing the will of a whole people. Between 1760 and 1860, a small group of men transformed the face of England, and brought about an economic and social upheaval so vast that the life of no person in this country remained unaffected by it. They set in motion a process of rapid evolution which, spreading round the world, created international problems with which we are still vainly grappling.
Lionel Thomas Cornwall Rolt, Isambard Kingdom Brunel
1959
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