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path-dependency

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• US standard rail gauge (4'8.5") descends from George Stephenson's 1829 practice and coincidental physical constraints, not from Roman chariot wheel-spacing
  claim seedling Tier 3 2026-07-11 · history-of-technology, myth-correction, standardization, path-dependency, historiography
• The Roman-chariot railroad-gauge myth is the vault's citogenesis/myth-correction pattern recurring in a third, unrelated domain
  capture promoted Tier 3 2026-07-09 · history-of-technology, myth-correction, standardization, path-dependency, historiography