
Original en inglés: «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».
Fuente: Smiles, Samuel. Industrial Biography: Iron-workers and Tool-makers. Ticknor and Fields, 1864, p. 228. https://books.google.es/books?id=ZMJLAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA228&dq=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&hl=es&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi3prDlyPrhAhUCuRoKHYGoCr8Q6AEIKDAA#v=onepage&q=The%20great%20Inventor%20is%20one%20who%20has%20walked%20forth&f=false