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The solar eclipse that changed America
In 1878, scientists from all over the US flocked to the American west to view a total eclipse of the sun. David Baron, the author of 鈥楢merican Eclipse鈥�, says that after that science in the US was never quite the same.
(Archival image, Chicago Times, July 22, 1878)
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