Hermann von Helmholtz Quotes

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

The industrial revolution in the new century is, in essence, a scientific and technological revolution, and breaking through the cutting edge is a shortcut to the building of an economic giant.

Towards the end of the eighteenth century the industrial-financial revolution began.

The capitalist system did not produce the machine age; the machine age produced the capitalist system. The material prosperity that the world has enjoyed for the last seventy-five years or one hundred years has been due to the introduction of power; steam power, then electric power and the internal combustion engine. The capitalist system or the free enterprise system - the terms are synonymous and interchangeable - was the product of the power age. The capitalist system did not produce the power age.

Steam and the telegraph and other machinery have required capital greater than any individual can furnish.

The spirit of manufacture has taken deep root among us, and its foundations are laid in too great expense to be abandoned.

The War of 1812 has given new direction to wealth and industry in the United States, and manufacturers grew up as if by magic.

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

Every new mine, furnace, and factory is an extension of the productive capacity of the State more real and valuable than added territory.

Without a consumer society there was no need for an industrial revolution.

The First Industrial Revolution used water and steam power to mechanize production. The Second used electric power to create mass production. The Third used electronics and information technology to automate production.

The U.S. is becoming an industrial heartland again.

Industrialisation only can generate large-scale employment.

Industrialization based on machinery, already referred to as a characteristic of our age, is but one aspect of the revolution that is being wrought by technology.

If England became a world power, it was because of the industrial revolution.

Nearly every country in the world is now becoming industrialized as rapidly as it can.

Europe and North America, we are told, are less dependent on energy-intensive heavy industry than in the 1960s and 1970s. It seems we squeeze more GDP out of a barrel of oil than in those benighted days.

I see in industrialization the central problem of building in our time. If we succeed in carrying out this industrialization, the social, economic, technical, and also artistic problems will be readily solved.

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.

In the Machine Age, the company itself became a machine - a machine for making money.

As the train rounded the curve, the great smoking stacks of the Edgar Thomson works, the flaming converters belching forth, made such a vivid impression upon my youthful mind that it will never fade. I thought I had seen the very acme of what might be accomplished in an industrial way.

During the nineteenth century, the rapid emergence and proliferation of new manufacturing methods and building technologies led to the establishment of polytechnic schools that concentrated on the practicalities of engineering and construction rather than the niceties of stylistic correctness or adherence to established precedent.

All the technology of our production was still pre-War. They were sort of '38, '39 and the War had been stable and so we were infinitely behind whatever had been going on in the United States for instance.

It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.

And the buying of new machinery meant not only the possibility of production, but even the new technology, 'cos as I mentioned before, we were back of seven, eight years.