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A Variety of Skills
What would happen if Luban met Watt? Luban: "Is your steam engine more clever than my wooden kite?" Watt: "My steam engine makes the world faster. Your wooden kite makes imagination fly." What if Li Bing met Edison? Li Bing: "My water will work for two thousand years." Edison: "My electricity makes the night no longer dark." What if Cai Lun met Tim Berners-Lee? Cai Lun: "I use bark rags to make knowledge cheap." Tim: "I use 0s and 1s to free knowledge." This is not imagination. This is "Hund
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All-In-One Tool
They built the atomic bomb to make the Chinese stand tall. They built high-speed rail to make China smaller. They made chips so that China could have "cores". They made the Sky Eye, Beidou, Chang'e, Jiaolong, Jiuzhang, Qilin... They created a China that is no longer looked down upon by others. This is a book about them 24 industrial giants, 70 years of journey in China, From "cannot be made" to "can be made" to "well made" to "number one in the world". There are tears, there are sacrifices, the
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