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TWENTY centuries ago the political power of Greece was broken, although Grecian civilisation had risen to its zenith. Rome was growing continually stronger, and was rapidly gaining territory by absorbing weaker States. Egypt, older in civilisation than either Greece or Rome, fell, but two centuries later, before the assault of the younger States, and became a Roman province. Her principal city at this time was Alexandria, a great and prosperous city, the centre of the commerce of the world, the home of students and of learned men, its population the wealthiest and most civilised of the then known world.
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Motive Power. Steam Turbines. High Speed Navigation 1 . Nature 61, 424–428 (1900). https://doi.org/10.1038/061424b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/061424b0