Spurred on by his publisher, Pierre-Jules Hetzel, Verne often included in the texts didactic technical explanations of how his inventions worked.

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"Everyone understands a gun, " says Olson, who says he practiced his technical explanations for days in front of Ontrack's non-technical managers.

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There are a variety of explanations for the tumble offered by talking heads, ranging from a research report to a technical death cross.

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