Beam Power Tube

Famous quotes containing the words beam, power and/or tube:

    How can one beam alone support a house?
    Chinese proverb.

    And we ask this where truth is,
    Of what use is valour and is worth?
    For evil has conquered the race,
    There is no power but in base men,
    Nor any man whom the gods do not hate.
    Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)

    One of the great natural phenomena is the way in which a tube of toothpaste suddenly empties itself when it hears that you are planning a trip, so that when you come to pack it is just a twisted shell of its former self, with not even a cubic millimeter left to be squeezed out.
    Robert Benchley (1889–1945)