#manufacturing

Historical fact: People stopped being people in 1913. That was the year Henry Ford put his cars on rollers and made his workers adopt the speed of the assembly line. At first, workers rebelled. They quit in droves, unable to accustom their bodies to the new pace of the age. Since then, however, the adaptation has been passed down: we've all inherited it to some degree, so that we plug right into joy-sticks and remotes, to repetitive motions of a hundred kinds. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#history #human #machine #manufacturing #rebellion

The administration in my view is once again manufacturing a crisis. There is no crisis in the Social Security system. The system is not on the verge of bankruptcy. ↗

— Paul Sarbanes

#again #bankruptcy #crisis #manufacturing #once

I am inclined to attach some importance to the new system of manufacturing; and venture to throw it out with the hope of its receiving a full discussion among those who are most interestedin the subject. ↗

— Charles Babbage

#among #attach #discussion #full #hope

Now listen, the one thing about agriculture is we've lost our manufacturing, we've lost a great deal of jobs overseas, lots of our industry. The last thing in the world we need to do is lose the ability to produce our food. ↗

— John Boozman

#about #agriculture #deal #food #great

If you ask what you are going to do about global warming, the only rational answer is to change the way in which we do transportation, energy production, agriculture and a good deal of manufacturing. The problem originates in human activity in the form of the production of goods. ↗

— Barry Commoner

#activity #agriculture #answer #ask #change

Republicans are manufacturing a Social Security crisis that does not exist in order to dismantle Social Security. ↗

— Diane Watson

#dismantle #does #exist #manufacturing #order

The other advantage is that in conventional manufacturing processes, it takes a long time for a factory to produce an amount of product equal to its own weight. With molecular machines, the time required would be something more like a minute. ↗

— K. Eric Drexler

#amount #conventional #equal #factory #like

Home Star is a common sense idea that would create jobs and provide a boost to local economies, while helping families afford their energy bills. By encouraging homeowners to invest in energy efficiency retrofits, Home Star would create 170,000 manufacturing and construction jobs that could not be outsourced to China. ↗

— Peter Welch

#bills #boost #china #common #common sense

About the only thing that I'll probably end up doing is I made this amplifier with Peavey. It's in the manufacturing stages right now, and there are a lot of orders that we just got for it. ↗

— Dweezil Zappa

#amplifier #doing #end #got #i

I had to learn everything about manufacturing, patents and how to run a business, and eventually I came up with an prototype that worked. ↗

— Melissa George

#business #came #eventually #everything #had