 | Royal Historical Society - 2003 - 516 Seiten
...never forget Mr Boulton's expression to me', recalled James Boswell of a visit to the Soho works: ' "I sell here, Sir, what all the world desires to have,...POWER". He had about seven hundred people at work ... he seemed to be a father to this tribe.' Like Boulton, his friend Josiah Wedgwood was one of a... | |
 | Montserrat Ginés Gibert - 2010 - 198 Seiten
...i el tractament informàtic, i la distribució d'exemplars mitjançant lloguer o préstec públics. "I sell here, Sir, what all the world desires to have — POWER" Matthew Boulton, 1776 "It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.... | |
 | Michael Dirda - 2005 - 566 Seiten
...province. And not only knowledge. As James Boswell wrote of one, "I shall never forget Mr. Boulton's expression to me: 'I sell here, Sir, what all the world desires to have — Power.' " But just who were these "Lunatics" who met when the moon was full over Birmingham? In rough order... | |
 | James C. Davis - 2004 - 488 Seiten
...showed a visitor through the factory where they made their engines. Pointing to the busy scene, he said, "I sell here. Sir. what all the world desires to have— POWER." Meanwhile, husinessmen were finding ways to organ ize the process of production. These changes were... | |
 | Mark Skousen, Benjamin Franklin - 2005 - 514 Seiten
...there was ' Boulton manufactured the revolutionary steam engines of partner James Watt (1736-1819). "I sell here, Sir, what all the world desires to have — Power," he told James Boswell in 1776. See James Boswell, Life of Johnson (Oxford University Press, 1998), 704.... | |
 | James E. Gunn, Matthew Candelaria - 2005 - 404 Seiten
...a tour of his famous Soho iron works, and said to Johnson (as quoted in Boswell's Life of Johnson), "I sell here, Sir, what all the world desires to have — POWER." As well as industry, literary and scientific societies prospered. A melancholy thought two centuries... | |
 | George Courtauld - 2005 - 76 Seiten
...1768 Sir Joshua Reynolds becomes the first President of the Royal Academy 1769 Watt's steam engine: "I sell here, Sir, what all the world desires to have — power!' Mathew Boulton of the Watt Boulton Steam Factory 1770 Gainsborough's 'The Blue Boy' 1770 Botany Bay... | |
 | Peter William Huber, Mark P. Mills - 2005 - 262 Seiten
...supplied essential administrative and logistical oversight. THE TWILIGHT OF FUEL AND THE ASCENT OF POWER I sell here, Sir, what all the world desires to have — POWER. — MATTHEW BOULTON (1776)1 VVHAT MOST FRUSTRATES those who feel passionate about energy is that most... | |
 | Peter Tertzakian - 2006 - 290 Seiten
...the Industrial Age. As Matthew Boulton said to James Boswell, the famed biographer of Samuel Johnson, "I sell here, sir, what all the world desires to have, Power." Two hundred years later, our desire for Boulton's sales proposition is stronger than ever. 14 A THOUSAND... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 2007 - 513 Seiten
...there was ' Boulton manufactured the revolutionary steam engines of partner James Watt (1736-1819). "I sell here, Sir, what all the world desires to have— Power," he told James Boswell in 1776. See James Boswell, Life of Johnson (Oxford University Press, 1998), 704.... | |
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The vastness and the contrivance of some of the machinery would have "matched his mighty mind." I shall never forget Mr. Boulton's expression to me, " I sell here, sir, what all the world desires to have — POWER. 
