Stroke Piston Engine

Famous quotes containing the words stroke and/or engine:

    “A stroke of the pen is better than a stroke of the sword, no?”
    —Ernest Pascal, and Walter Lang. Wilhelm (Stanley Andrews)

    “The machine unmakes the man. Now that the machine is perfect, the engineer is nobody. Every new step in improving the engine restricts one more act of the engineer,—unteaches him.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)