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A comment on Ask HN: What are your favorite books on the history of ideas and inventions?.

Re:Ask HN: What are your favorite books on the history of id... by dharmon on Sunday February 05, 2017 @06:52PM (#13575481)
I read The Most Powerful Idea in the World by William Rosen last year and really enjoyed it.

Ostensibly its about the steam engine, but the idea referenced in the title is really patents.

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