To get his hard coal into the houses of Philadelphia, Josiah White had to invent and build a complete transportation system in the Pennsylvania wilderness. His innovations live on today—but mainly in amusement parks.
FOR BOTH BETTER and worse, technological innovations never work out quite the way anyone expects. Edward Tenner spent years figuring out why this is and what we can do about it.
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