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   Alexander Koryagin to Anton Shepelev   
   To find a subject... 1A.   
   05 Aug 21 18:14:40   
   
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   Hi, Anton Shepelev! -> Ardith Hinton   
   I read your message from 05.08.2021 13:28   
      
    AS> Life was slower in the past, and many technical innovations were   
    AS> gained not so much by disciplined engineering and research, but by   
    AS> hard and painful trial and error, like groping in the dark, through   
    AS> several generations of masters and craftsmen. Thomas Eddison wrote   
    AS> about his method that failure is the discovery another of way that   
    AS> does not work. This approach is not always inferrior in that in can   
    AS> lead to inventions that modern engineers, going by the more direct   
    AS> route, overlook.   
      
   It's interesting -- do we use today any of Thomas Eddison's inventions?   
   I've caught myself at the idea that we don't.   
      
   Bye, Anton!   
   Alexander Koryagin   
   english_tutor 2021   
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