And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Saturday, May 28, 2022
Steam Hammer used for forging Steel, circa 1910 The Midvale Steel Company, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
And just like that, Peter, Paul, and Mary began to sing in my brain.
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James Nasmyth invented the steam hammer. He wrote a very interesting autobiography.
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