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Another interesting illustration of innovation displacing a successful and widespread infrastructure. It wasn't better pipes or a better gas in the pipes, it wa
by ballenf 4y ago
Another interesting illustration of innovation displacing a successful and widespread infrastructure. It wasn't better pipes or a better gas in the pipes, it was technology from a different source that displaced these compressed air clocks and obsoleted the hundreds of miles of pipe needed to transport it.
- Bayart 4y agoIn the instance, the piping can easily be repurposed to run other kinds of lines (for example electric, phone, fibre). Which it certainly was.