[NOTE: Lenoir’s engine is considered to be the first commercially practical internal-combustion engine.]

GAS WORKS— “A lady in an omnibus at Washington espied the great unfinished dome of the capitol (which don’t look much like a dome at present), and said, innocently, ‘I suppose those are the gas-works?’ ‘Yes, Madam, for the nation,’ was the reply of a fellow-passenger.”

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1. 1. curiousaboutitall 07:43 PM 8/13/10

   Makes me wonder what articles from 2010 will people in 2110 be giggling at?

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2. 2. jtdwyer in reply to curiousaboutitall 08:53 AM 8/27/10

   curiousaboutitall - That's progress - funny, isn't it. I'm 60 now: things were somewhat different in 1960.
   
   Fifty years from now, I just hope there's some remaining humans that can read Scientific American, if it's still going. Maybe they can find this article in an archive, anyway...

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