¶ More With Less: Sea Technology
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More With Less: Sea Technology:
"thing, when we’d been at sea for 20 to 30 days. So I said: What else did Malthus leave out? He assumed that food would rot… I began to go into that. Back in 1917, I said I can see suddenly a little airplane that’s now threatening to sink the battleship-- the more-with-lessing is so powerful… this electronic thing, this radio, and the messages. This great big ship-- my messages go right across, like that. So I said there is something going on here, more-with-lessing. So I said that it could be thatthe whole raison d’etre of this war that I’ve been trained to operate in, might be invalid-- if we really looked into doing more with less in relation to all those things that make man a success… And I said, apparently it’s going on inadvertently.
"And after World War I, sure enough, the oil burner came off the battleship and into the oil furnaces on land. And all these things that we’d had at sea suddenly came up on the land. In 1927 I committed myself to… where Ifound nobody paying attention to doing more with less-- and that was in the building world. On the sea and in the sky, yes; and the airplane was a beautiful series of victories of doing more with less, or more with the same. It was fantastic, what you could get out of the same power system in the sky, and you could get even more electronically.
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- RBF to Arthur Anderson & Co., (pp.8-9), New York, 13 Mar’74
