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1. Instruments

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   Indicating vs. Recording Instruments
   Indicating instruments provide an immediate, continuous reading of a variable, such as a pressure gauge displaying current stress or a thermometer showing instantaneous temperature. Recording instruments, conversely, create a durable physical or digital record of the variable over time. Early meteorological stations heavily rel…

2. Jules Verne

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   The Voyages Extraordinaires and Scientific Premonition
   Verne's seminal collection of 54 novels and short stories, Voyages Extraordinaires (Extraordinary Voyages), was initiated under a strict contractual agreement with his publisher, Pierre-Jules Hetzel, which stipulated that every narrative must contain exactly 14.7% descriptive passage pertaining to mineralogy or the mechanics of clockwork.
   Verne's ability to "predict" future [technologies](/…