Manufacturing

Mechanical engineering may be defined as the manufacture, installation, and repair of all kinds of machinery (including machine tools), prime movers and boilers, and engines. ~ N. K. Buxton, ‎Derek Howard Aldcroft

A widemarketawaited the manufacturer... who would set purity andqualityabove everything else in their preparation. ~Henry J. Heinz.

Manufacturingis the production of merchandise for use or sale using labor and machines, tools, chemical and biological processing, or formulation.

CONTENT:A - F,G - L,M - R,S - Z,See also,External links

Quotes

Quotes are arranged alphabetically by author

A - F

• INDUSTRIAL DESIGNis destined to become a universallanguage;for in our material age of rapid transition, from abstract, to applied,Science— in the midst of our extraordinary tendency towards the perfection of the means of conversion, or manufacturing production — it must soon pass current in every land.
  • Jacques-Eugène Armengaudet al.The practical draughtsman's book of industrial design,1851, Preface, p. ii-iv
  • Cited in:American Railroad Journal,1853, p. 445

• In short,intelligence,considered in what seems to be its original feature, is the faculty of manufacturing artificial objects, especially tools to make tools, and of indefinitely urging the manufacture.
  • Henri Bergson,Creative Evolution(1907), Chapter II
  • Cited in: David Kreps,Bergson, Complexity and Creative Emergence,2015

• Mechanical engineeringmay be defined as the manufacture, installation, and repair of all kinds of machinery (including machine tools), prime movers and boilers, and engines.
  • N. K. Buxton, ‎Derek Howard Aldcroft (1979)British industry between the wars.p. 129

G - L

• A widemarketawaited the manufacturer of food products who would set purity andqualityabove everything else in their preparation.
  • Attributed toHenry J. Heinzin: J. N. Garfunkle (1910),The American Pure Food and Health Journal.Vol. 2 p. xxxviii

• The two main purposes ofmechanical engineeringare: first, todesignand make tools and equipment for turning out machinery required by all branches of engineering, industry, and commerce, and, second, to design and manufacture, by means of said tools and equipment.
  • Theodore Jesse Hoover, ‎John Charles Lounsbury Fish (1941)The Engineering Profession.p. 133

M - R

• There are many branches of manufacturingindustrywhich greatly depend for their success upon thedesigner's art,and it is necessary that the industrial designer should possess a knowledge of the processes of the manufacture in which his designs will be utilized, as well as of the properties and capabilities of the material to which they will be applied.
  • Sir Philip Magnus.Industrial education,K. Paul, Trench, & co., 1888. p. 24; Cited in James Clarke'sAmericanized Encyclopaedia britannica,Belford-Clarke co., 1890, p. 5718

• We went through one of the bigautomobilefactories to-day.... The foundry interested me particularly. The heat was terrific. The men seemed weary. Here manual labour is a drudgery and toil is slavery. The men cannot possibly find any satisfaction in their work. They simply work to make a living. Their sweat and their dull pain are part of the price paid for the fine cars we all run. And most of us run the cars without knowing what price is being paid for them.... We are all responsible. We all want the things which the factory produces and none of us is sensitive enough to care how much in human values the efficiency of the modern factory costs.
  • Reinhold Niebuhr,Leaves from the Notebook of a Tamed Cynicpp. 79–80
• What gradually swung the balance of resources back in the Allies' favour were two factors: the sheer speed and scale ofAmerican rearmament,which dwarfed anything that theGermansandJapanese,or even theBritish,had thought possible: and the swift revival of theSoviet economyafter the mauling it received in 1941, when it sustained losses so severe that most pundits assumed the worst. Without the extraordinary exodus of Soviet machinery and labour from the war zones of the westernSoviet Unionto the harsh plains ofSiberia,Stalin's armies would have been like theTsar's in 1916, the soldiers in the second rank picking up the guns and boots of their dead vanguard as they scurried into battle. Against every expectation Soviet society worked feverishly to turn out thetanksandaircrafttheir soldiers needed. With only a quarter of thesteelavailable toGermany,Soviet industry turned out more tanks, gun and planes than her German enemy throughout the war.
  • Richard Overy,Why the Allies Won(1995), p. 5

• The great cry that rises from our manufacturing cities, louder than their furnace blast, is all in very deed for this, — that we manufacture everything there except men; we blanch cotton, and strengthen steel, and refine sugar, and shape pottery; but to brighten, to strengthen, to refine, or to form a single living spirit, never enters into our estimate of advantages.
  • John RuskinThe Stones of Venice(1853) Vol. II, ch. VI, section 16
  • Cited in: Sir Humphry Davy,The collected works of Sir Humphry Davy...: Discourses delivered before the Royal society. Elements of agricultural chemistry, pt. I,1922, p. 112

S - Z

• Mechanical engineeringis applicable rather to works connected with private enterprise, such as the designing and construction of steam machinery for the purposes of navigation and transportation, the adaptation of such machinery to mills and factories, the construction of water-wheels, the fabrication of materials, iron, steel, and brass, for the purposes of the engineer, the architect, and manufacturer; and the manufacture of implements and machinery for agriculture, for mining, and for domestic purposes.
  • William Pettit Trowbridge (1871)The Profession of the Mechanical Or Dynamical Engineer: An Inaugural Address Before the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale College.p. 5

See also

• Industry