Industrial Cooling Towers

Famous quotes containing the words industrial, cooling and/or towers:

    “The clock, not the steam-engine, is the key-machine of the modern industrial age.”
    —Lewis Mumford (1895–1990)

    “As a bathtub lined with white porcelain,
    When the hot water gives out or goes tepid,
    So is the slow cooling of our chivalrous passion,
    O my much praised but-not-altogether-satisfactory lady.”
    —Ezra Pound (1885–1972)

    “The sardonic funeral towers of metropolitan finance.”
    —Lewis Mumford (1895–1990)