Re:The Notre Dame fire and the future of history
by oblio on Tuesday April 16, 2019 @10:51AM
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The Liverpool and Manchester Railway (steam powered trains): 1830.
Daimler (internal combustion cars): 1892.
Wright Flyer III (plane): 1903
Apollo 11: 1969.
Even steam powered trains were almost inconceivable to the average person living in say, 1700, just imagine what that person would have thought about Apollo 11! Heck, I imagine even Napoleon in 1821 couldn't really imagine the mechanized world awaiting just 50 years in the future.
Daimler (internal combustion cars): 1892.
Wright Flyer III (plane): 1903
Apollo 11: 1969.
Even steam powered trains were almost inconceivable to the average person living in say, 1700, just imagine what that person would have thought about Apollo 11! Heck, I imagine even Napoleon in 1821 couldn't really imagine the mechanized world awaiting just 50 years in the future.