>"There was then no one single way to build one: it was much like the automobile industry at the end of the century, inventors and keen-eyed engineers advancing

>"There was then no one single way to build one: it was much like the automobile industry at the end of the century, inventors and keen-eyed engineers advancing their own ideas, often their own patents, consensus following only later." Kind of like how we're now standardizing on Javascript as the one true programming language, as all others fall into disuse. (ducks)