Combustion Quotes
On the engine that shaped a century of travel.
These quotes track the internal combustion engine from its dominance over the last century to genuine doubt about what replaces it, including a comparison to how ebooks changed reading without killing it. One line even connects early theory to the Automobile Industry and the airplane.
I believe fuel cells could end the 100-year reign of the internal combustion engine.
The advent of ebooks is no more going to kill the pleasure of reading than the introduction of the internal combustion engine made horses extinct.
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Electromagnetic theory and experiment gave us the telephone, radio, TV, computers, and made the internal combustion engine practical - thus, the car and airplane, leading inevitably to the rocket and outer-space exploration.
I think the internal combustion engine will disappear from the streets of our cities in the next thirty years because transportation will be mass transportation, or probably electrical power.
Advent Quotes
The way plays happen, at least with me, it's spontaneous combustion of things you've had in your head.
Can you imagine being Leonardo Da Vinci in the 1400s trying to describe his ideas for machines that would allow humans to fly to the average person of his time? This is hundreds of years before the invention of electricity,...
There was a study done in the early 20th century of all the entrepreneurs who entered the automobile industry around the same time as Henry Ford; there were something like 500 automotive companies that got funded, had the internal combustion...
The foodstuff, carbohydrate, is essentially a packet of hydrogen, a hydrogen supplier, a hydrogen donor, and the main event during its combustion is the splitting off of hydrogen.
