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Perkins
Benjamin Douglas Perkins, an American who sold patented “metallic tractors” in London at the end of the eighteenth century.
Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, Charles Mackay
Explained in
- Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, Charles Mackay
- Sensitive: The Hidden Power of the Highly Sensitive Person in a Loud, Fast, Too-Much World, Jenn Granneman and Andre Sólo
Frances Perkins (1880–1965), US Secretary of Labor from 1933 to 1945 and the first woman in a US cabinet.