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It also was a century of marvels with incredibly useful inventions.

I think many inventions came before solid science and inventors just winging it at times (cool: radio-active toys!). Facts followed fun. Add that to the urge to accumulate wealth and to translate that into power and it was a recipe for a perfect storm.