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The history of the reaction in the 19th century is fascinating. I can recommend this book:
Metternich was so scared of radical students he basically ensured that the universities in Austria-Hungary were hamstrung by political meddling and censorship. This was a great foundation for the war with Prussia later on! /s
God damn history is cool. I have nothing interesting to say but thanks for this. I might actually go pick up that book, do you think it's suitable for someone who has basically read zero real history books?
I'd say it's a bit on the advanced side but if you can find it "off the back of a truck" then it's worth giving it a try.
If I remember correctly, Josef Ressel, one of the inventors of the propeller (there was severa, but he was in Austrial), was arrested as an anarchist after a steam engine powering a propeller exploded.
I am not in favour of exploding engines, but it always struck me as a bit on the paranoid side. Not that better ships for the Austrian navy would have helped against Prussia.
But then again, another propeller inventor, John Ericsson, came up with both the Monitor, a torpedo boat, and a mobile artillery that he tried to sell to Napoleon III, so you never know what propeller inventors can come up with if you don't arrest them as anarchists.