Have you ever had one of those times when you’re trying to figure out some problem and then suddenly the solution comes to you as if by magic? Or is it just luck? And if it is just luck, you now have to figure out why you got lucky this time and not that other time. Luck sure is fickle, isn’t it? Sometimes it’s there; other times it just fails you.
But how’s this for luck? In the early days of steam heating, the people who were doing the work were pretty much making it up as they went along. The English tried it first and realized that this is a very dangerous sport. They left it to the Americans to develop. It was still just as dangerous in America, but at least the buildings weren’t exploding in England anymore.