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ISAC Member Yaneer Bar-Yam.
Exergonic Innovations: The History of Britain’s Coal Exploitation This essay investigates the technological relationship between humanity and its environment, using the Industrial Revolution in Britain as a case study of exergonic innovation, where the invention of the Newcomen steam engine transformed Britain’s conception of coal and its potential, as well as that of British society.
By Clayton J. M. Dasilva
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