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Show The Crank in History. Columbus was deemed a crank by the people of his time. So were Galileo, Jenner, Stephenson and Fulton. Hardly Hard-ly a discoverer or an Inventor, an explorer ex-plorer or a philosopher who has made his mark in the history of the world but was dubbed "crank" before his merits were recognized. People who propose impossible things are "cranks;" after they have done the impossible things they are geniuses. If it had not been for "cranks" the human hu-man race today would be living in caves, wearing the skins of beasts for clothing and eating raw meat for dinner. din-ner. The "crank" is the advance agent of civilization. Chicago Chronicle. |