Alexandria

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Someone from Egypt, from Alexandria, realized that when he heated up water, steam created mechanical energy.
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But that remained as it was for 2000 years until someone in the UK said, actually, that mechanical force discovered by Heron from Alexandria could actually move a steam loom.
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And then Heron from Alexandria's steam engine became what drove the Industrial Revolution in England.
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of the patron deities of, um, uh, Alexandria in the Greco Roman tradition was this thing
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At the time, Alexandria, Virginia,
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so that we lose the library of Alexandria and the whole knowledge base of classical antiquity.
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We carry around the equivalent of a library of Alexandria in our pocket times 10,000, where there really aren't limiting factors, at least so far, as long as we preserve and protect our freedoms. And our, our, our right to, to be able to succeed and to take risk and be rewarded for that risk.
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