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There are things done today in electrical science which would have been deemed unholy by the very man who discovered electricity, who would themselves not so long before been burned as wizards.
There are things done today in electrical science which would have been deemed unholy by the very man who discovered electricity, who would themselves not so long before been burned as wizards.
Approximate author period: c. 1879 AD · industrial
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- Bram Stoker
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- Approximate author period: c. 1879 AD · industrial
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