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What made a super high-tech home in Victorian England? Hydroelectric witchery, for starters

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IIRC British neurologist Oliver Sacks - in his autobiography "Uncle Tungsten" - mentions that his relative had a lucrative patent on tungsten filaments for incandescent light bulbs.

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