Isaac Taylor Quote

The great Inventor is one who has walked forth upon the industrial world, not from universities, but from hovels; not as clad in silks and decked with honors, but as clad in fustian and grimed with soot and oil.

Isaac Taylor, Ultimate Civilization. (1859); Cited in: Samuel Smiles (1864) Industrial biography; iron-workers and tool-makers, p. 228.

The great Inventor is one who has walked forth upon the industrial world, not from universities, but from hovels; not as clad in silks and decked...

The great Inventor is one who has walked forth upon the industrial world, not from universities, but from hovels; not as clad in silks and decked...

The great Inventor is one who has walked forth upon the industrial world, not from universities, but from hovels; not as clad in silks and decked...

The great Inventor is one who has walked forth upon the industrial world, not from universities, but from hovels; not as clad in silks and decked...