Periodicals>Magazine Article: Thurston, Robert H. (Nov 1877), The Growth of the Steam-Engine, (Nov 1877), 17. , The Popular Science Monthly , Retrieved on 2012-06-11
Memes
11 JUN 2012
Ideas Grow
Great inventions are never, and great discoveries are seldom, the work of any one mind. Every great invention is really an aggregation of minor inventions, or the final step of a progression. It is not usually a creation, but a growth, as truly so as is the growth of the trees in the forest. 
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On other ideas, like the growth of trees in a forest.
