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// The Magical Revolution 
// Story: An Old History Book 
// by Vocal 
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As surprising as it may seem to anypony living in a large city like Manehatten, there was a time when all tools were created using non-magical means. Not even the thought of enchanting ball with Unicorn Magic in order to make it shine at will ad occured to anypony. There were no arcades, no lamps, no bight and colorful signs on storefronts. Everything everypony used was non-magical; Nothing needed any magic to run. Everypony was getting along fine. Sure, life was a bit inconvenient for most ponies since only Unicorns had magic, but they managed to survive without it.

Then, there came two unicorn brothers, Glassmakers, who observed something amazing. The younger of the brothers, Shim, was moving around some glass beads at night when he noticed, If he used enough magic in holding them, they kept shining even after he set them down. He showed this to his older brother Sham, who thought if a glass bead could glow for a few minutes, a glass ball should be able to glow for a few days. And so, the brothers spent days making balls of glass about the size of your hoof and put them in baskets that they wove from grass. Every week or so, they would leave their town and travel around Equestria, enchanting the balls before they walked into a new town at night, sold their wares and left sometime the next day for, they knew, that the amount of magicthey put into the glass ball would only let it glow for a day, at most. Through this scam, they did something they never expected to do. They gave unicorns all ove Equestria the idea of making other things do magical things. The Shim Sham Brothers, through their scam, had singlehoofedly begun the Magical Revolution.