 But we're going to talk tonight about the steam engine and how there was actually a decreed monopoly given to a company. Which is kind of hard to even imagine was a thing. Right, in American culture. But it happened really a long time ago. We're going to go in the way back machine today. But let's first talk about how the steam engine came to be. Like most groundbreaking technologies, it didn't happen overnight. In the United States, the first patent was developed by James Watt in 1769, but