"Transmission of documents via telephone wires is possible……" — Dennis Gabor
"Transmission of documents via telephone wires is possible in principle, but the apparatus required is so expensive that it will never become a practical proposition."
More Apparatus Quotes
- Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think. — Ambrose Bierce
- Science unfolded her treasures and her secrets to the desperate demands of men, and placed in their hands agencies and… — Winston Churchill
- Sometimes the law defends plunder and participates in it. Sometimes the law places the whole apparatus of judges, police, prisons… — Frederic Bastiat
- Goresthorpe Grange is a feudal mansion - or so it was termed in the advertisement which originally brought it under… — Arthur Conan Doyle
- There's a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you… — Mario Savio
- Opinions are to the vast apparatus of social existence what oil is to machines: one does not go up to… — Walter Benjamin
- One's condition on marijuana is always existential. One can feel the importance of each moment and how it is changing… — Norman Mailer
- Brain: an apparatus with which we think that we think. Mind, n. A mysterious form of matter secreted by the… — Ambrose Bierce
- Once again decent citizens will be able to enter this house of worship, kneel down in front of a nearly-naked… — A. Whitney Brown
- The state is essentially an apparatus of compulsion and coercion. The characteristic feature of its activities is to compel people… — Ludwig von Mises
- Geology, perhaps more than any other department of natural philosophy, is a science of contemplation. It requires no experience or… — Humphry Davy
- A research problem is not solved by apparatus; it is solved in a man's head. — Charles Kettering