Engineering Quote by Thomas Sowell

Industrialization based on machinery, already referred to as a characteristic of our age, is but one aspect of the revolution that is being wrought…

— Emily Greene Balch

“British mechanics and engineers were in demand around the world.”

— Thomas Sowell

The aim of industrialization has always been to replace people with machines or other technology, to make the cost of production as low as…

— Wendell Berry

It takes more than industry to industrialize.

— Walt Whitman Rostow

“Like other factory owners of the time, he was as much in the business of manufacturing energy as manufacturing goods. But”

— Nicholas Carr

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

“Conglomerations of factories gave rise to the new industrial cities. Steam engines were later applied to mobile uses – the railway and steamship ushered…

— Edward A. Hudson

“At the industry level this process went, for example, from cotton, tobacco and wheat through railroads and automobiles, household appliances and electrical goods, to…

— Edward A. Hudson

“Engineering is the art and science of nuts and bolts.”

— Haresh Sippy

The United States as we know it today is largely the result of mechanical inventions, and in particular of agricultural machinery and the railroad.

— John Moody

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

People talk about "job creation," as if that had ever been the aim the industrial economy. The aim was to replace people with machines.

— Wendell Berry