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Technology tends to have a way of becoming smaller as it evolves. The ever-convenient microchip and lithium-ion battery serve in tandem as the brains of so many devices today, and their sleek and ...

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THE author of this book holds the first place among those who many years ago made the locomotive an object of scientific study. His famous work on railway machinery is still of prime importance, ...