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of the most rudimentary laws of dynamics. It's only quite recently that scientific engineers have taken up the question and removed it from the hands of charlatans and mountebanks."Mountebanks is a word I'd like to bring back."A few years ago, many engineers would not have dared to face the ridicule, which they would be liable to receive if they had asserted that it be possible to make a machine that
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1. One who mounts a bench or stage in the market or other public place, boasts of his skill in curing diseases, and vends medicines which he pretends are infalliable remedies; a quack doctor.
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