Books, Brochures, and Chapters>Book: Fulton , Robert (1796), A treatise on the improvement of canal navigation, Retrieved on 2012-05-17Source Material [books.google.com]
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17 MAY 2012
A Mechanic Should Sit Down Among His Tools
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.Folksonomies: invention
Folksonomies: invention
And consider them the way a poet considers the letters of the alphabet.
17 MAY 2012
Fear of Opposition Quashes Novel Ideas
The fear of meeting the opposition of envy, or the illiberality of ignorance is, no doubt, the frequent cause of preventing many ingenious men from ushering opinions into the world which deviate from common practice. Hence for want of energy, the young idea is shackled with timidity and a useful thought is buried in the impenetrable gloom of eternal oblivion.Young men are timid against the prejudices of elders.