Britain Quote by Charles R. Morris

The drive to scale in almost every endeavor. The British went very large scale in ship building and a few other industries. Their steel…

— Charles R. Morris

In the industrial revolution Britain led the world in advances that enabled mass production: trade exchanges, transportation, factory technology and new skills needed for…

— Lucy Powell

“It was possible to borrow British technology, and increasingly governments began to promote development. By the end of the nineteenth century, governments and large…

— David Christian

Some of the technologies that were created during the Industrial Revolution were appalling, such as capitalization, investment, social hierarchy, sexism, racism, and ecological destruction.

— Chellis Glendinning

“The breakthrough into industrial growth took place in Britain. However, economic leadership gradually passed to the United States, based on a new set of…

— Edward A. Hudson

A lot of technologies in the world were unusual in the beginning, and became standard. That's the beauty of bottom-up entrepreneurship and innovations.

— Iqbal Quadir

The industrial leader of the 20th century was a system-builder. He was a visionary in terms of what could be built; got the capital…

— Robert Reich

We had learned how to invent things, and the question of why we invent things receded in importance. The idea that if something could…

— Neil Postman

“Technological innovations had shifted the basis of England’s economy from agriculture to industry between 1750 and 1850. The development of steam power and a boom”

— Charles Dickens

“Ratio became a working hypothesis, a heuristic principle, and thus led to the incomparable rise of technology. This was something fundamentally new in world…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

So many people for so many years have promoted technology as the answer to everything. The economy wasn't growing: technology. Poor people: technology. Illness:…

— Ellen Ullman

It wasn't openly talked about very much, in the sense that people said they wanted to beat GB at this or that, but there…

— Charles R. Morris