[T]he central figures in the action seem vaguely unrelated to one another, like ships passing in the night.

Its analytical tools range from compact, highly sophisticated units— spectroscopic and gas chromatographic equipment, thermalgravimetric balance, automatic microscopic electronic data accumulator and other hard-named devices to probe coal's nature—to the complete, separately housed coal preparation laboratory used in verifying the sulfur-reduction potential of raw coals.

I gymcel at home with minimum equipment... my father did so with no equipment back in the day (rocky style). Your logic is stupid.

Various teachers have announced that passages from the classics were to be committed to memory in their schools; but Ruthardt rejects the matter and the manner of these former memorizings.