Industrial Technology Quotes

In 1854 I took out a patent for puddling iron by means of steam.

In diminishing the role of the worker's body in the labor process, industrial technology has also tended to diminish the importance of the worker. In creating jobs that require less human effort, industrial technology has also been used to create jobs that require less human talent. In creating jobs that demand less of the body, industrial production has also tended to create jobs that give less to the body, in terms of opportunities to accrue knowledge on the production process.

I love industry. Pipes. I love fluid and smoke. I love man-made things. I like to see people hard at work, and I like to see sludge and man-made waste.

We are a country of artisans and a country of manufacturing. I think Japanese textile technology is the best in the world.

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.

The complicated engines manufactured by men demand, if one really wants to use them, much calm. Ever since our love for machines replaced the love we used to have for our fellow man, catastrophes proceed to increase.

I remembered seeing it and it was this metallic turbine and I thought it was beautiful. I had never been in a power plant before, but I felt, without being overly dramatic, compelled to make photographs of this for myself.

Customized jewelry is one of my targets with Bold Machines.

In consequence, science is more important than ever for industrial technology.

The biggest engineering companies, like Schlumberger, Halliburton and others, have technology they spent billions of dollars developing.

Instrumental or mechanical science is the noblest and above all others, the most useful.

The spinning wheel is itself an exquisite piece of machinery. My head daily bows in reverence to its unknown inventor.