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Author James Gleick described a vacuum-tube Van der Pol oscillator in his book Chaos: Making a New Science. According to a New York Times article, Gleick received a modern electronic Van der Pol oscillator from a reader in 1988.
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—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
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