
“The clock, not the steam-engine, is the key-machine of the modern industrial age.”
Source: Technics and Civilization (1934), Ch. 1, sct. 2
Quoted in Arthur Burns, "Wilberforce, Samuel (1805–1873)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 2004
“The clock, not the steam-engine, is the key-machine of the modern industrial age.”
Source: Technics and Civilization (1934), Ch. 1, sct. 2
Heresy Number Three
The God Problem: How a Godless Cosmos Creates (2012)
Source: Information, The New Language of Science (2003), Chapter 18, Information is Physical, The cost of forgetting, p. 154
"A Six-hour Shift : The Log of a Transport Engineer" in The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. CXIX, No. 4 (April 1917), p. 449
“Private Capitalism makes a steam engine; State Capitalism makes pyramids.”
As quoted in “Frank Chodorov: Champion of Liberty,” Aaron Steelman, FEE, (Foundation for Economic Education), (December 1, 1996) https://fee.org/articles/frank-chodorov-champion-of-liberty/
“Daniel Webster struck me much like a steam-engine in trousers.”
Vol. I, ch. 9
Lady Holland's Memoir (1855)
p, 125
Reflections on the Motive Power of Heat (1824)
Source: Management Science (1968), Chapter 6, The Viable Governor, p. 142.
Donald Hill, Studies in Medieval Islamic Technology,; as cited in: Salim Al-Hassani. " 800 Years Later: In Memory of Al-Jazari, A Genius Mechanical Engineer http://muslimheritage.com/article/800-years-later-memory-al-jazari-genius-mechanical-engineer," at muslimheritage.com, 2015.
“Steam engines don't answer back. You can belt them with a hammer and they say nowt.”
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