The Pinball Effect

Author: James Burke

Follow the bouncing ball, James Burke-style: spice trading in the Middle Ages leads to the European tea-drinking craze, which helps instigate the development of the science of natural history, which in turns inspires the creation of the coal miner’s safety lamp, which is somehow related to the battle between the Monitor and the Merrimack. From there we go to North Carolina….Read More
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