Small Group Quote by Max Boot

“At the heart of the industrialization process was iron and steel, and Britain was pre-eminent in their production.”

— Thomas Sowell

“If you go back to a century ago, the major problems of electrical and mechanical engineering had to do with how to place a…

— Noam Chomsky

“The Mongols who inherited Genghis Khan’s empire exercised a determined drive to move products and commodities around and to combine them in ways that…

— Jack Weatherford

Time passed by. I had furnished steam hammers to the principal foundries in England. I had sent them abroad, even to Russia. At length…

— James Nasmyth

“No new technology, during the thousand years between gunpowder and the steam engine, was as disruptive as the printing press,”

— Kurt Andersen

“The rise of a British iron and steel industry was intertwined with the development of coal mining.”

— Thomas Sowell

What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.

— Wendell Phillips

Britain is one of the biggest arms dealers in the world, after the States. There's a lot of money in weapons deals. We sell…

— Paul Conroy

I was growing up in a society that exerted a lot of control on people, and from both my personality and the social condition,…

— Cai Guo-Qiang

Industrialization came to England but has since left.

— P. J. O'Rourke

There's not a big gun culture in England at all still.

— Clive Owen

Using gunpowder as a medium became a way to liberate myself.

— Cai Guo-Qiang