I presume that nobody will deny the positive aspects of the North American cultural world. These are well known to all. But these aspects do not make one forget the disastrous effects of the industrial and commercial process of 'cultural lamination' that the USA is perpetrating on the planet.
Production is not the application of tools to materials, but logic to work.
Take ice. Ice is fascinating to me. Ice is the one thing in our world that went from an agricultural product to being manufactured.
The earth is bountiful, and where her bounty fails, nitrogen drawn from the air will refertilize her womb. I developed a process for this purpose in 1900. It was perfected fourteen years later under the stress of war by German chemists.
The TV show 'How It's Made' brings the intricate details of assembly lines to numerous North American living rooms. But if the series were to ever branch into exposing the secrets of music production, Colin Stetson's 'New History Warfare Vol. 2: Judges' would make for a mind-bending episode.
Man makes machines to man the machines that make the machines.
I'm actually surprised how technical a lot of commercial wine production is. Things are done very much from an industrial chemistry point of view at certain price points, but that's not the impression you get with wine.
Everything you use in a modern life style has to be made using a tool of some sort.
Whatever else it was, Adolf Hitler's short-lived regime was also a colossal industrial process by which the wealth and productive power of much of Europe was wrenched from its normal purposes and converted into a machine for killing.
I, in fact, have been involved in the construction of and the management of wastewater treatment plants.
Genius is subject to the same laws which regulate the production of cotton and molasses.
Entrepreneurs in the United States and Europe finally figured out how to separate aluminum from minerals cheaply and also how to produce it on an industrial scale.
I put the hamburger on the assembly line.
Flue gas extraction is really, really hard to do. It's not that we can't do it - just not at a cost that anyone will bear.
Industrialization of the building trade is a question of material. Hence the demand for a new building material is the first prerequisite.
I think that an industrial process is not like a rubber stamp. Everything has to be put together and, as such, should have its own expression.
Refineries are very energy-intensive.
In 1854 I took out a patent for puddling iron by means of steam.
I've always enjoyed seeing how things are made.
The Confucian culture really did contribute to the initial face of the industrialization of several Asian countries because it emphasized discipline and group behavior and so on, which was needed to initiate the industrialization process.
The next movement is still in the factory.
I was running an assembly line designed to build memory chips. I saw the microprocessor as a bloody nuisance.
We make songs like a factory and put them out.
Natural gas is a feedstock in basically every industrial process.
Press the button, pump the water, build the pressure, push the piston, press the button. It's the perfect job.
