Professor Goddard does not know the relation between action and reaction and the need to have something better than a vacuum against which to react. He seems to lack the basic knowledge ladled out daily in high schools. (Regarding Robert Goddard’s revolutionary work, 1921)
Inventions - Inventors Quotes
Young people tend to look down on my generation. They say that we didn’t have satellite TV, we didn’t have personal computers, we didn’t have the internet. They’re right. We “invented” them.
To select well among old things is almost equal to inventing new ones.
One thing the inventors can’t seem to get the bugs out of is fresh paint.
Edison did not invent the first talking machine – he invented the first one that could be turned off.
We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity – gunpowder and romantic love.
Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist of creating out of void, but out of chaos.
With latest connections, works, the inter-transportation of the world, Steam-power, the great express lines, gas, petroleum, These triumphs of our time, the Atlantic’s delicate cable, The Pacific railroad, the Suez canal, the Mont Cenis and Gothard and Hoosac tunnels, the Brooklyn bridge, This earth all spann’d with iron rails, with lines of steamships threading in […]
Nikola Tesla invented the 20th and 21st Century… Tesla was the inventor of the alternating poly-phase current generators that light up every town in the world today. He was the original inventor of the radio, and placed his ideas in print and demonstrated them before the public five years before Marconi. By the turn of […]
The cocktail party is easily the worst invention since castor oil.
