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Prof Dionysius Lardner FRS FRSE (3 April 1793 – 29 April 1859) was an Irish scientific writer who popularised science and technology, and edited the 133-volume Cabinet Cyclopædia.

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Rail travel at high speed is not possible because passengers, unable to breathe, would die of asphyxia.

Aviation, Follow Your Dreams, High, Passengers, Possible, Speed

In this science the illustrations and examples are not confined in their effect merely to the practice they afford in the analytical art, but [. . . ] they also store the mind with independent geometrical and physical knowledge. Besides, it should be considered, that the only effectual method of impressing abstract formulae and rules upon the memory, and, indeed, of making them fully and clearly apprehended by the understanding, is by examples of their practical application.

Art, Illustrations, Independent, Memories, Method

Men might as well project a voyage to the Moon as attempt to employ steam navigation against the stormy North Atlantic Ocean.

Atlantic, Future, Men, Moon, Ocean, Voyage

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