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An example of a simile in writing about science:
"…the early samples of Bessemer steel were found to exhibit considerable irregularity: the first steel tyres made of the metal, tried on some railways, were found unsafe, and their use was abandoned; and the ironmasters generally, who were of course wedded to he established processes, declared the much-vaunted Bessemer process to be a total failure. It was regarded as a sort of meteor that had suddenly flitted across the scientific horizon, and gone out leaving the subject in more palpable darkness than before."
Cochrane, R. (Ed.). (1897). Heroes of Invention and Discovery. Lives of eminent inventors and pioneers in science. W. P. Nimmo, Hay, & Mitchell.
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