landed classes neglected technical education, taking refuge classical — Richard Rhodes, Visions Technology: A Century Vital Debate Machines Systems Human World

Richard Rhodes the Human World Visions of Technology: A Century of Vital Debate About Machines Systems

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The landed classes neglected technical education, taking refuge in classical studies; as late as 1930, for example, long after Ernest Rutherford at Cambridge had discovered the atomic nucleus and begun transmuting elements, the physics laboratory at Oxford had not been wired for electricity. Intellectual neglect technical education to this day.[Describing C.P. Snow's observations on the neglect of technical education.]

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