Steam-engine time
Jun. 13th, 2004 11:04 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ffuturesOne of those silly questions - who actually invented the saying about "steam engine time", and when exactly was that time - I'm assuming the late 18th / early 19th century but is there a generally agreed date?
Later
Never mind, it was apparently Charles Fort, and he wasn't making quite the argument I thought he was.
Any suggestions for an alternative "invented simultaneously in two or three places" gizmo of the 19th century?
Later
Never mind, it was apparently Charles Fort, and he wasn't making quite the argument I thought he was.
Any suggestions for an alternative "invented simultaneously in two or three places" gizmo of the 19th century?
