Engine Design Quotes

Aerodynamics are for people who can't build engines.

All military and most commercial aircraft use our designs that process power from jet engines.

Rocket engines generally are simpler than jet engines, not more complicated.

I realized that a methane-oxygen rocket engine could achieve a specific impulse greater than 380.

The ideas which led to the Analytical Engine occurred in a manner wholly independent of any that were connected with the Difference Engine. These ideas are indeed, in their own intrinsic nature, independent of the latter engine and might equally have occurred had it never existed nor even been thought of at all.

We estimated that we could make one of four cylinders with 4 inch bore and 4 inch stroke, weighing not over two hundred pounds, including all accessories.

Yes, the sound of the new V6 engines could have been a little bit better, but it is just one of those things that you get used to with time.

In almost every computation a great variety of arrangements for the succession of the processes is possible, and various considerations must influence the selections amongst them for the purposes of a calculating engine. One essential object is to choose that arrangement which shall tend to reduce to a minimum the time necessary for completing the calculation.