Railroads are the primary economic beneficiaries. It's a difficult project for the public sector.
“For in 1900 all electromagnetic radiation of longer wavelengths was already known at least to the extent that one could not seek in it the more striking characteristics of X-rays such as, for example, the strong penetrating power.”
“Fortunes made in no time are like shirts made in no time; it's ten to one if they hang long together.”