On the Origin of Clockwork, Perpetual Motion Devices, and the Compass is part of the Electrical Technology catalogue. The record identifies Price, Derek J. de Solla (Derek John de Solla), 1922-1983 as the credited author and preserves a link to the source edition.

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The extracted text contains approximately 19,433 words, corresponding to an estimated 85 minutes of reading, and is divided into 3 detectable text sections. These figures describe the downloaded text file rather than a printed pagination system.

The automated text analysis reports an average sentence length of about 23.4 words and a measured lexical-diversity value of 0.176. These measurements are descriptive reading aids, not literary ratings.

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