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Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1447: Eighteenth-Century Factory Maintenance

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on December 29, 2017 · Episode: 1447 18th-C factory maintenance: messier than Diderot showed us. Today, a question of image and reality.

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