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  • (Score: 5, Interesting) by Thexalon on Friday November 16 2018, @03:57PM (1 child)

    by Thexalon (636) on Friday November 16 2018, @03:57PM (#762720)

    The development of the first consistent electrical generators by Michael Faraday, Anyos Jedlik, et al. Without those, none of the rest of this happens.

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  • (Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Saturday November 17 2018, @08:30PM

    by JoeMerchant (3937) on Saturday November 17 2018, @08:30PM (#763198)

    Chemical batteries could have taken us a long way, and probably would have accelerated the logical circuit side of electronics development, if generators had waited in the wings for a few decades more.

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