Quotes About Innovation

The fair awakened America to beauty and as such was a necessary passage that laid the foundation for men like Frank Lloyd Wright and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.

General Electric rather miraculously came back with a bid of $554,000. But Westinghouse, whose AC system was inherently cheaper and more efficient, bid $399,000. The exposition went with Westinghouse, and helped change the history of electricity.

He signed the letter: George Washington Gale Ferris.

Stephen Gray to devise an experiment that for sheer inventive panache outstripped anything that had come before. He clothed a boy in heavy garments until his body was thoroughly insulated but left the boy's hands, head, and feet naked. Using nonconducting silk strings, he hung the boy in the air, then touched an electrified glass tube to his naked foot, thus causing a spark to rocket from his nose.

the Kodak being a new kind of portable camera that eliminated the need for lens and shutter adjustments.

Ferris had created more than simply an engineering novelty. Like the inventors of the elevator, he had conjured an entirely new physical sensation.

No one knows who coined the term, but it fit, and the Montauk became the first building to be called a skyscraper.

He joined the crew of the Lake Champlain, a small steam-powered cargo ship owned by the Beaver Line of Canada but subsequently acquired by the Canadian Pacific Railway. He was its second officer in May 1901, when it became the first merchant vessel to be equipped with wireless.

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Torpedoes were expensive, and heavy. Each cost up to $ 5,000— over $ 100,000 today— and weighed over three thousand pounds, twice the weight of a Ford Model T.

THE SUBMARINE as a weapon had come a long way by this time, certainly to the point where it killed its own crews only rarely.

His letter to Rice began, "I have on hand a great project for the World's Fair in Chicago. I am going to build a vertically revolving wheel 250' in dia." Nowhere in this letter, however, did he reveal the true dimension of his vision:

In this time when writing long letters was everyday practice, men of normal sensibility saw these cards as the most crabbed of media, little better than telegrams

disrupting the lives of hidebound bureaucrats. He launched his new

The exposition went with Westinghouse, and helped change the history of electricity.

The man condemned for having 'wheels in his head' had gotten them out of his head and into the heart of the Midway Plaisance

Burnham's frequent admonition: "Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood." Burnham

Once built, the Montauk was so novel, so tall, it defied description by conventional means. No one knows who coined the term, but it fit, and the Montauk became the first building to be called a skyscraper.

Not only this, but through television and telephone we shall see and hear one another as perfectly as though we were face to face." That word: television. In 1900.

Look here, old fellow, do you realize this has been the greatest meeting of artists since the fifteenth century?

It was truly a transitional moment: There he was, at the cusp of the twentieth century, using the telephone to send a telegram.

She tooled around the city in an electric car.

If you worked to advance the interests of the machine, the machine paid you back.