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The word 'Robot' comes from Czech word robota or forced labourer |
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ENIAC the first commercial electronic computer was built in 1946, it weighed 30 tonnes and contained 18,000 electronic tubes! Today the same capacity can be built into a silicon chip millimetres across. |
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The first jet-powered plane flew in Germany in 1939, but could only carry enough fuel to stay in the air for 10 minutes. |
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The first traffic lights were installed outside the Houses of Parliament in 1868, unfortunately the gas powered lights exploded killing a passing policeman. |
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If email had been around before the telephone was invented, people would have said, "Hey, forget email! With this new telephone invention I can actually talk to people!"
--The Executive Speechwriter Newsletter |
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Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.
--Howard Aiken, IBM engineer |
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Opportunity is missed by most people because it comes dressed in overalls and looks like work.
--Thomas Edison |
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Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless
--Thomas Edison |
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I have not failed 700 times. I have not failed once. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.
--Thomas Edison |
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A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower |
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It is apparent to me that the possibilities of the aeroplane, which two or three years ago were thought to hold the solution to the [flying machine] problem, have been exhausted, and that we must turn elsewhere.
Thomas Edison (1895 |
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Such startling announcements as these should be deprecated as being unworthy of science and mischievous to its true progress.
Sir William Siemens (1880, on Edison's announcement of a successful light bulb.) |
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Space travel is bunk
Sir Harold Spencer Jones, British Astronomer Royal (1957, two weeks before the launch of Sputnik.) |
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Using your hands and brains to solve problems is an enormous creative challenge.
James Dyson |
