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From Palladium, February 2:In the year 1800, a team of burglars
broke into a factory in England to steal the workers’ payroll. The
factory belonged to Matthew Boulton, an industrialist and inventor, as
well as a polymath who hosted discussions with intellectuals like
Benjamin Franklin, Joseph Priestley, and Erasmus Darwin.
Boulton got wind of the burglars’ plot. Like any sensible person, he
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