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    Bright Ideas A Record of Invention and Misinvention
    Bright Ideas A Record of Invention and Misinvention
    Bright Ideas A Record of Invention and Misinvention
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    Bright Ideas A Record of Invention and Misinvention

    By C. E. (Charles Edmund) Brock and Herbert Strang

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 15, 2013
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