🔬 Science
June 11, 2026 at 11:00 AM
A Moment of Divine Inspiration Helped Melvil Dewey Bring Obsessive Order to the Infinitely Disorganized Stacks in the Library
Source:
Smithsonian Magazine
A Massachusetts student, Melvil Dewey, developed the universally adopted decimal-based system for organizing library books, greatly simplifying information access for everyone.
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