Alfred Smee Quotes

• To what part of electrical science are we not indebted to Faraday? He has increased our knowledge of the hidden and unknown to such an extent, that all subsequent writers are compelled so frequently to mention his name and quote his papers, that the very repetition becomes monotonous. [How] humiliating it may be to acknowledge so great a share of successful investigation to one man.

  Alfred Smee

  Éxito, Conocimiento, Ciencia

  Alfred Smee (1843). “Elements of Electro-metallurgy”, p.128

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• Cruzar los mares, atravesar las carreteras y hacer funcionar la maquinaria por galvanismo, o más bien por electromagnetismo, será sin duda, si se lleva a cabo, el logro más noble jamás realizado por el hombre.

  Alfred Smee

  Science, Men, Sea

  Alfred Smee (1843). “Elements of Electro-metallurgy”, p.300

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• Electricity is but yet a new agent for the arts and manufactures, and, doubtless, generations unborn will regard with interest this century, in which it has been first applied to the wants of mankind.

  Alfred Smee

  Art, Science, Generations

  Alfred SMEE (F.R.S., Surgeon to the Bank of England.) (1851). “Elements of Electro-Metallurgy, or the art of working in metals by the galvanic fluid”, p.8

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