Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from An Appreciation of Two Great Workers in Hydraulics: Giovanni Battista Venturi, Born 1746; Clemens Herschel, Born 1842
Eten indeed it happens that the germ Of a great truth propagated in some fertile brain has lain fallow, and the harvest fallen years or centuries later to another's reaping. The germ may be complete, needing only sun, soil and air - interpretation, application and expansion - and possibly above all, Time. The great truth may have' no immediate and apparent practical value. Too.
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