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Combustion Quotes
On the engine that shaped a century of travel.
These quotes track the internal combustion engine from its dominance over the last century to genuine doubt about what replaces it, including a comparison to how ebooks changed reading without killing it. One line even connects early theory to the Automobile Industry and the airplane.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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The advent of ebooks is no more going to kill the pleasure of reading than the introduction of the internal combustion engine made horses extinct.
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Electromagnetic theory and experiment gave us the telephone, radio, TV, computers, and made the internal combustion engine practical - thus, the car and airplane, leading inevitably to the rocket and outer-space exploration.
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I think the internal combustion engine will disappear from the streets of our cities in the next thirty years because transportation will be mass transportation, or probably electrical power.
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The way plays happen, at least with me, it's spontaneous combustion of things you've had in your head.
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