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Subject: Looking for info about the increase in scientific knowledge over last 200 years
Category: Reference, Education and News > General Reference
Asked by: rodesmail-ga
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Posted: 08 Mar 2006 09:52 PST
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Question ID: 704980

I am looking for statistics or quotes that talk about how much
scientific knowledge has increased over the last two centuries. The
more mainstream the person and source, the better.

Request for Question Clarification by pafalafa-ga on 20 Mar 2006 17:12 PST

You may be interested in this chart of the growth of patents in the US:


http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/ac/ido/oeip/taf/issuyear.htm


showing there were 100 patents in 1837, and almost 7 million in 2005!

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Subject: Re: Looking for info about the increase in scientific knowledge over last 200 years
From: pinkfreud-ga on 20 Mar 2006 16:48 PST

Some of the information here may be of interest to you:

http://www.answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=578583

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