Robert Fulton Quotes:
Ocupation: Engineer
Life: November 14, 1765 - February 24, 1815
Birthday: November 14
Death: February 24
As the component parts of all new machines may be said to be old[,] it is a nice discriminating judgment, which discovers that a particular arrangement will produce a new and desired effect. ... Therefore, the mechanic should sit down among levers, screws, wedges, wheels, etc. like a poet among the letters of the alphabet, considering them as the exhibition of his thoughts; in which a new arrangement transmits a new idea to the world.
topic: Nice, Ideas, Machines, Letters Of The Alphabet
