Clinton Edgar Woods Quotes

1863–1930 United States

Clinton Edgar Woods (February 7, 1863 - 1930) was an electrical and mechanical engineer, inventor, manufacturer of automobiles in Chicago and New York City, and author of one of the first books on electric vehicles.

United States
Business theorists
Engineers
Non-fiction authors

Also known as: Clinton E. Woods

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The unsightly appearance of automobiles has been commented upon this country a great deal.

The Electric Automobile (1900)

Factories today are being run less and less by the authority of experience only, and more and more by the authority of figures and facts. The superintendent and manager of long experience and intuitive knowledge only is forced to make room for the younger man, of less experience, perhaps, but who modernizes his work by the jurisdiction of figures alone.

Organizing a factory (1905)

When we review all that has been done by mechanical devices toward the displacement of animal power, it is very hard to refrain from drawing a conclusion that the horse must go; that is, speaking in the broad sense of the word. Mechanically propelled vehicles for all purposes are here.

The Electric Automobile (1900)

The simplicity attached to the operation of an electric vehicle by any person of ordinary intelligence is too well known to need comment at this point ; but it is found from experience that there is the same difference in the care taken of an electric vehicle that there is among men who attend dynamos and steam engines, or drive horses, with a corresponding difference in troubles and aggravations.

The Electric Automobile (1900)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Clinton Edgar Woods (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.