Labor-Saving Devices Quotes

We must have modern conditions to meet modern machinery. As labor-saving devices are installed and used for production we must necessarily shorten the number of hours per day, and we are now at the state where we will necessarily have to come to a five day week because, gentlemen, you cannot have prosperity unless you have employment.

Not all the labour of the earth Is done by hardened hands.

If you think about it, many of the great inventions of the last 200 years were designed to replace human labor. Tractors were developed to substitute mechanical power for human physical toil.

What the country needs are a few labor-making inventions.

The wren-box problem is becoming more acute each year, for wrens now demand better housing conditions and labor-saving devices.

If every tool, when ordered, or even of its own accord, could do the work that befits it... then there would be no need either of apprentices for the master workers or of slaves for the lords.

By his very success in inventing labor-saving devices, modern man has manufactured an abyss of boredom that only the privileged classes in earlier civilizations have ever fathomed.

I don't think the West needs to apologize - or pay - for having invented the steam engine.

A vast technology has been developed to prevent, reduce, or terminate exhausting labor and physical damage. It is now dedicated to the production of the most trivial conveniences and comfort.

To lift farm drudgery off flesh and blood and lay it on steel and motors has been my most constant ambition

There are many machines throughout history that were built to do something better than a human can.