tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6851578517872251953.post3119728289073118330..comments2023-10-10T05:07:13.577-07:00Comments on En Tequila Es Verdad: Stuff Comes from SomewhereDana Hunterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00890312745525306991noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6851578517872251953.post-69986896747829594502010-10-07T06:49:40.306-07:002010-10-07T06:49:40.306-07:00In the comments the true complexity of society is ...In the comments the true complexity of society is clear. I have some 100 year old machineries handbook and the like left over from my grandfather, and even then things were complex. Going a bit further back my great grandfather was a locomotive engineer and I have a book called the Catechism of the Locomotive. Even back then how to run a locomotive to get max miles traveled per unit of coal was very important. <br />In fact it appears that a lot of the early improvements in steam engines (from Newcomen to Watt) where designed to make the engine use less coal so that the engine made economic sense other than at a coal mine. <br />Put this in the more things change the more they remain the same, or our ancestors were not as stupid as we think they were file.Lylenoreply@blogger.com