Electric Motors Quotes

• Everybody recognizes that if you can make very efficient electric motors, you can make a quantum leap forward.

  James Dyson

  Quantum, Leap, Efficient

  "How James Dyson Makes the Ordinary Extraordinary". Interview with Shoshana Berger, www.wired.com. November 19, 2012.

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• The fuel cell is just a fundamentally inferior way of delivering electrical energy to an electric motor than batteries.

  Elon Musk

  Cells, Energy, Batteries

  "Extended Interview: Tesla Motors Chairman Elon Musk". Interview with Spencer Michels, www.pbs.org. June 25, 2008.

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• Everybody thinks an automobile needs an engine. Well, an automobile doesn't necessarily need an engine. What we do is shift electric motors into the wheels of our automobiles and so we have a completely different kind of thing where we have four independent intelligent wheels rather than a traditional internal combustion engine and power train and so on.

  William J. Mitchell

  Independent, Intelligent, Thinking

  Source: bigthink.com

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• One has the feeling of enormous safety. You don't have the torque from the propeller. You have no noise; it's almost like little electric motors humming inside, and you feel sort of safe.

  Erich Warsitz

  Airplane, Safety, Feelings

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• Yet is it possible in terms of the motion of atoms to explain how men can invent an electric motor, or design and build a great cathedral? If such achievements represent anything more than the requirements of physical law, it means that science must investigate the additional controlling factors, whatever they may be, in order that the world of nature may be adequately understood.

  Arthur Compton

  Mean, Science, Men

  "The Human Meaning of Science".

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• A mobile is an abstract sculpture made chiefly out of sheet metal, steel rods, wire and wood. Some or all of these elements move, propelled by electric motors, wind, water or by hand.

  Alexander Calder

  Moving, Hands, Wind

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• History was a trash bag of random coincidences torn open in a wind. Surely, Watt with his steam engine, Faraday with his electric motor, and Edison with his incandescent light bulb did not have it as their goal to contribute to a fuel shortage some day that would place their countries at the mercy of Arab oil.

  Joseph Heller

  Country, Light, Wind

  Joseph Heller (1997). “Good as Gold”, p.72, Simon and Schuster

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• Like my father, I would never as a child throw anything away, keeping old toys, electric motors and bits of broken machines under my bed in what I called my Box of Useful Things.

  Nick Park

  Children, Father, Broken

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