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By 1870, Britain’s steam engines generated 4 million horsepower, equivalent to the work of 40 million men, who—if industry had still depended on muscles—would have eaten more than three times Britain’s entire wheat output.
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Ian Morris, Why the West Rules—for Now: The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the Future
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