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Great innovation and discovery. They're always built on the shoulders of history's giants.

Geniuses don't succeed alone.

They're part of a long and winding road of invention, intuition and experimentation.

It involves countless contributions by countless people across immeasurable time.

In 1712, a British inventor powered the steam engine into being in a form we would recognize, pushing the tentacles of the industrial revolution around the world and changing the world forever. ever.

Hi Neil, last week we were in Europe as dynastic dynamite exploded, plunging the continent into war for the next 12 years. Where are we this week?

Hi Paul, yes, the previous episode of The Love Letter was about The Plague of War, a curse that's still with us to this day and will always be with us, I think.

This week we're switching gear though and traveling from death and destruction to invention and innovation.

We're traveling to Devon in England as Thomas Newcoming helps kick-start the Industrial Revolution. revolution.

We are in England with the spark that ignites the Industrial Revolution that changes the world,

the Industrial Revolution that changes the world, the Industrial Revolution that changes everything everywhere forever.

It's a big event, big moment.

It's specifically to do with a critical evolution of the steam engine, which was achieved by Thomas Newcoming in 1712.

But we'll get to that. All of the love letter makes me think about the

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