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ChristianKl comments on Confusion about science and technology - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: ChristianKl 24 October 2013 11:44:18PM 1 point [-]

I don't see why engineers would discover and develop electricity, to start with, never mind all the complicated stuff like transistors and GPS and such.

Oskar Heil was an electrical engineers and at the same time one of the first people to get a patent for a transistor design.