#motor

When the machine had been fastened with a wire to the track, so that it could not start until released by the operator, and the motor had been run to make sure that it was in condition, we tossed a coin to decide who should have the first trial. Wilbur won. ↗

— Orville Wright

#coin #condition #could #decide #fastened

When the motor was completed and tested, we found that it would develop 16 horse power for a few seconds, but that the power rapidly dropped till, at the end of a minute, it was only 12 horse power. ↗

— Orville Wright

#develop #dropped #end #few #found

As an individual, not as the boss of a company, I am very interested in motor racing. ↗

— Carlos Ghosn

#boss #company #i #i am #individual

Some people say it might be good for your career to die and then come back again. I have died many ways, car crashes, motorcycle crashes, etc. But, I am still alive. ↗

— Mark-Paul Gosselaar

#alive #am #back #car #career

The president of General Motors was in a foul humor. ↗

— Arthur Hailey

#general #general motors #humor #motors #president

Of all work-schools, a good farm is probably the best for motor development. ↗

— G. Stanley Hall

#development #farm #good #motor #probably

I became a real Shell Motor Oil expert, and I did this 25-minute film. It turned out really well and, as a result, they offered me more work and lots of commercials to direct. ↗

— Renny Harlin

#commercials #did #direct #expert #film

Maybe I don't have the most common kind of motor neuron disease, which usually kills in two or three years. ↗

— Stephen Hawking

#disease #i #kills #kind #maybe

My father was a motorsports journalist and a motorbike fan. He gave me my motocross bike. ↗

— Jacky Ickx

#fan #father #gave #journalist #me

That is why, as soon as I felt a real attraction for my first passion which was the motorcycle, and in spite of the danger it could represent, they encouraged me. ↗

— Jacky Ickx

#could #danger #encouraged #felt #first