Transcription of THE USEFULNESS OF USELESS KNOWLEDGE
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George Eastman on the subject of use. Mr. Eastman, a wise and gentle far-seeing man, gifted with taste in music ... benzene, glycerine, cellulose, etc., re-sulted not only in the beneficent aniline dye industry but in the creation of nitro-glycerine, which has uses good and bad.
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