{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/lguariento/Engineering-the-Future/issues/2","repository_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/lguariento/Engineering-the-Future","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/lguariento/Engineering-the-Future/issues/2/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/lguariento/Engineering-the-Future/issues/2/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/lguariento/Engineering-the-Future/issues/2/events","html_url":"https://github.com/lguariento/Engineering-the-Future/issues/2","id":179027290,"number":2,"title":"Quotes","user":{"login":"ajprescott","id":20753434,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/20753434?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/ajprescott","html_url":"https://github.com/ajprescott","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ajprescott/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ajprescott/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ajprescott/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ajprescott/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ajprescott/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ajprescott/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ajprescott/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ajprescott/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ajprescott/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"assignees":[],"milestone":null,"comments":1,"created_at":"2016-09-24T12:13:22Z","updated_at":"2016-09-24T12:18:10Z","closed_at":null,"body":"We were worried that the book was getting quite large and that it might prove rather unwieldy. The theme of the V&A Festival this year is the Engineer - part of the year of the engineer - and we were also worried about linking such diverse contributions back to the engineering theme. So I came up with these quotes on engineering to be dispersed through the book. In the event, there wasn't space for them, but I was rather attached to them. How can we use them in the online publication?\r\n\r\nThe 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.\r\n\t\t\t\t\tRobert Fulton, _Treatise on the Improvement of Canal Navigation_ (1795)\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nCivil engineering is the art of directing the great sources of power in nature for the use and convenience of man, being that practical application of the most important principles of natural philosophy which have in a considerable degree realized the anticipations of Bacon, and changed the aspect and state of affairs in the whole world.\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\tThomas Tredgold (1788-1829)\r\n\r\n\r\nDesign is the soul of engineering.\r\n\t\t\t\tJoel Moses, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2007\r\n\r\n\r\nAn engineer? I had grown up among engineers, and I could remember the engineers of the twenties very well indeed: their open, shining intellects, their free and gentle humor, their agility and breadth of thought, the ease with which they shifted from one engineering field to another, and for that matter, from technology to social concerns and art…one of them might play a musical instru- ment, another dabble in painting; and their faces always bore a spiritual imprint.\r\n\t\t\t\tAlexander Solzhenitsyn, _The Gulag Archipelago_ (1974)\r\n\r\n\r\nThe truth is that the eyes and the fingers the bare fingers are the two principal inlets to sound practical instruction. They are the chief sources of trustworthy knowledge in all the materials and operations which the engineer has to deal with. No look knowledge can avail for that purpose. The nature and properties of the materials must come in through the finger ends. Hence, I have no faith in young engineers who are addicted to wearing gloves. Gloves, especially kid gloves, are perfect non- conductors of technical knowledge.\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\tJames Nasmyth, _Autobiography_ (1883)\r\n\r\nThe Black Country is anything but picturesque. The earth seems to have been turned inside out. Its entrails are strewn about; nearly the entire surface of the ground is covered with cinder-heaps and mounds of scoriae. The coal, which has been drawn from below ground, is blazing on the surface. The district is crowded with iron furnaces, puddling furnaces, and coal-pit engine furnaces. By day and by night the country is glowing with fire, and the smoke of the ironworks hovers over it. There is a rumbling and clanking of iron forges and rolling mills. Workmen covered with smut, and with fierce white eyes, are seen moving about amongst the glowing iron and the dull thud of forge- hammers.\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\tJames Nasmyth, _Autobiography_ (1883)\r\n\r\n\r\nA new, a vast, and a powerful language is developed for the future use of analysis, in which to wield its truths so that these may become of more speedy and accurate practical application for the purposes of mankind than the means hitherto in our possession have rendered possible. Thus not only the mental and the material, but the theoretical and the practical in the mathematical world, are brought into more intimate and effective connexion with each other. We are not aware of its being on record that anything partaking in the nature of what is so well designated the Analytical Engine has been hitherto proposed, or even thought of, as a practical possibility, any more than the idea of a thinking or of a reasoning machine.\r\n\t\t\t\tAda Lovelace, describing Charles Babbage’s Analytical Engine (1843)\r\n\r\n\r\nNature's numbers; the number of leaves on a fern, the number of seeds on a sunflower head, and how they are arranged... this is the Fibonacci sequence, used in art and architecture and music. Although when you hear it in music, it is not recognised. Even George Gershwin used it in Porgy and Bess. Now who knows that?\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\tDelia Derbyshire, electronic composer (1999)\r\n\r\n\r\nSynthesizers changed my life—the Buchla synthesizer, and the Buchla person to some degree because we had a period when we were fairly close friends. I had messed around with audio—we had one of the early tape recorders that were commercially available to ordinary humans back around 1950. Before that, I think my parents had a wire recorder. I still actually have two wire recorders, one of which works. It’s actually a spool of wire that runs very fast, with actually a decent frequency response, amazingly. But I messed around with it [the tape recorder] and I remember discovering at some point when I was a little kid that if I cut the tape with scissors while my parents were out, I could go to the medicine chest in the bathroom and get a piece of adhesive tape, and I could tape the pieces back together in different orders.\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\tLaurie Spiegel, electronic composter (2006)\r\n\r\n"},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/lguariento/Engineering-the-Future/issues/comments/249361943","html_url":"https://github.com/lguariento/Engineering-the-Future/issues/2#issuecomment-249361943","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/lguariento/Engineering-the-Future/issues/2","id":249361943,"user":{"login":"lguariento","id":10143842,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/10143842?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/lguariento","html_url":"https://github.com/lguariento","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/lguariento/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/lguariento/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/lguariento/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/lguariento/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/lguariento/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/lguariento/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/lguariento/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/lguariento/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/lguariento/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2016-09-24T12:18:10Z","updated_at":"2016-09-24T12:18:10Z","body":"I'm not sure I got the right meaning of the question. Some quotes are already at the end of the articles. Including them at any point is just a matter of using the '>' tag. For instance:\r\n\r\n> 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.\r\n\r\n> Robert Fulton, _Treatise on the Improvement of Canal Navigation_ (1795)\r\n \r\nDid this answer your question?"}}
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