Clyde Tombaugh Quotes

I guess the two things I was most interested in were telescopes and steam engines. My father was an engineer on a threshing rig steam engine and I loved the machinery.

I'm fascinated by steam engines and with Victorian engineering generally, and as a corollary to that, I'm fascinated by the idea of long-lived technologies.

In the United States three new methods of transportation made their appearance at almost the same time - the steamboat, the canal boat, and the rail car.

Soon you’ll be whirled along by steam in a country now only inhabited by wild beasts and Indians

The history of the Erie Railroad ever since 1901 has been a record of progress.

When Edward Gibbon was writing about the fall of the Roman Empire in the late 18th century, he could argue that transportation hadn't changed since ancient times. An imperial messenger on the Roman roads could get from Rome to London even faster in A.D. 100 than in 1750. But by 1850, and even more obviously today, all of that has changed.

The two great agents of the physical world have become subject to the will of man and have been made subservient to his wants and enjoyments; I allude to steam and electricity, under whatever name the latter may be called.

Since the invention of steamships distant countries have become like those that are near at hand.

Horses and mules, and even sail cars, made more rapid progress than did the earliest locomotive.

You all know how powerful and varied are the effects of which steam engines are capable; with them has really begun the great development of industry which has characterised our century before all others.

The United States as we know it today is largely the result of mechanical inventions, and in particular of agricultural machinery and the railroad.

Many Americans have a romanticized view of trains, rooted in a bygone era of elaborately adorned rail cars lit by flickering gas lamps and pulled by smoke-belching steam locomotives.

Electricity is an example of a general purpose technology, like the steam engine before it. General purpose technologies drive most economic growth, because they unleash cascades of complementary innovations, like lightbulbs and, yes, factory redesign.

The railroads once were a dominant power in American life, for good and for ill. There's something inevitably nostalgic about a train book today. Trains attract us, but part of that attraction is cultural memory.

The introduction of so powerful an agent as steam will make a great change in the situation of man.

America’s history is the history of her transportation.

In Victorian England, laborers were pushed off the farms, replaced by steam power.

Reason and justice tell me there is more love for mankind in electricity and steam than there is in chastity and abstaining from meat.

Think back to the time when Agriculture was not labor efficient. We have lost all these jobs. But I don't think anyone is too sad about it.

Through machinery, man can exert tremendous powers almost as fantastic as if he were the hero of a fairy tale. Through machinery, man can travel with an ever increasing velocity; he can fly through the air and go beneath the surface of the ocean.

I don't think the West needs to apologize - or pay - for having invented the steam engine.

Technology is the future, I have seen the third industrial revolution, and we are in the midst of the fourth industrial revolution.

As our farms and factories grew more efficient, they accounted for a shrinking share of our economy. And the more productive agriculture and manufacturing became, the fewer people they employed.

The industrial revolution allowed us, for the first time, to start replacing human labour with machines.

If our era is the next Industrial Revolution, as many claim, AI is surely one of its driving forces.