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George Westinghouse Quotes
8 quotes from George Westinghouse — Inventor and industrialist who founded Westinghouse Electric..
“If someday they say of me that in my work I have contributed something to the welfare and happiness of my fellow man, I shall be satisfied.”
“The alternating current will kill people, of course. So will gunpowder, and dynamite, and whisky, and lots of other things; but we have a system whereby the deadly electricity of the alternating current can do no harm unless a man is fool enough to swallow a whole dynamo.”
“[Pavel Yablochkov's electric lamp is] the starting point for the creation of a new branch of industry.”
“They could have done it better with an axe.”
“If someday they say of me that in my work I have contributed something to the welfare and happiness of my fellow man, I shall be satisfied.”
“The alternating current will kill people, of course. So will gunpowder, and dynamite, and whisky, and lots of other things; but we have a system whereby the deadly electricity of the alternating current can do no harm unless a man is fool enough to swallow a whole dynamo.”
“[Pavel Yablochkov's electric lamp is] the starting point for the creation of a new branch of industry.”
“They could have done it better with an axe.”