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Letter "E" » electric light
«Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman.»
Author: Louis D. Brandeis
| Keywords:
commended, commends, diseases, efficient, electric, electric light, industrial, justly, policeman, publicity, social disease, sunlight
«Edison failed 10, 000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.»
Author: Napoleon Hill
| About:
Perseverance
| Keywords:
An electric, a few, before, discouraged, discourages, discouraging, Edison, electric, electric light, fail, failed, few, light, made, times
«Before I put a sketch on paper, the whole idea is worked out mentally. In my mind I change the construction, make improvements, and even operate the device. Without ever having drawn a sketch I can give the measurements of all parts to workmen, and when completed all these parts will fit, just as certainly as though I had made the actual drawings. It is immaterial to me whether I run my machine in my mind or test it in my shop. The inventions I have conceived in this way have always worked. In thirty years there has not been a single exception. My first electric motor, the vacuum wireless light, my turbine engine and many other devices have all been developed in exactly this way.»
Author: Nikola Tesla
(Engineer, Inventor)
| Keywords:
completed, conceived, construction, device, devices, drawings, electric, electric light, electric motor, engine, immaterial, improvements, inventions, machine shop, measurement, measurements, my first, on paper, operate, shop, sketch, sketched, sketches, Thirty Years, turbine, vacuum, wireless, workmen
«And what is the state but a servant and a convenience for a large number of people, just like the electric light and the plumbing system? And wouldn't it be preposterous to claim that men must exist for their plumbing, not the plumbing for the men.»
Author: Ayn Rand
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
An electric, claim, convenience, conveniences, electric, electric light, large number, large numbers, number, plumb, plumbed, plumbing, plumbing system, preposterous, servant, system, The Men, The State
«The more I see of democracy the more I dislike it. It just brings everything down to the mere vulgar level of wages and prices, electric light and water closets, and nothing else.»
Author: D.H. Lawrence
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
closeted, closets, come out of the closet, dislike, electric, electric light, prices, See of, the closet, vulgar, wages, water closet, water down
«London was beginning to illuminate herself against the night. Electric lights sizzled and jagged in the main thoroughfares, gas-lamps in the side streets glimmered a canary gold or green.»
Author: E. M. Forster
(Essayist, Novelist)
| Keywords:
canary, electric light, gas lamp, glimmer, glimmering, Glimmers, green light, illuminate, in the main, jagged, lamps, sizzle, sizzled, sizzles, thoroughfare, thoroughfares
«When Thomas Edison worked late into the night on the electric light, he had to do it by gas lamp or candle. I'm sure it made the work seem that much more urgent.»
Author: George Carlin
(Actor, Author, Comedian)
| Keywords:
An electric, candle, Edison, electric, electric light, gas, gas lamp, lamp, Late Night, that much, Thomas, Thomas Edison, urgent, worked
«Wit and Humor -- if any difference, it is in duration -- lightning and electric light. Same material, apparently; but one is vivid, and can do damage -- the other fools along and enjoys elaboration.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
apparently, damage, duration, elaboration, electric, electric light, enjoys, lightning, vivid
«Persons grouped around a fire or candle for warmth or light are less able to pursue independent thoughts, or even tasks, than people supplied with electric light. In the same way, the social and educational patterns latent in automation are those of self-employment and artistic autonomy.»
Author: Marshall McLuhan
(Educator, Social Reformer, Writer)
| Keywords:
artistic, automation, autonomy, educational, electric, electric fire, electric light, employment, grouped, latent, patterns, supplied, supplied with, warmth
«Transmitted at the speed of light, all events on this planet are simultaneous. In the electric environment of information all events are simultaneous, there is no time or space separating events.»
Author: Marshall McLuhan
(Educator, Social Reformer, Writer)
| About:
Environment,
Events,
Time
| Keywords:
electric light, separating, simultaneous, speed of light
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