I do not know how far it is possible to convey to any one who has not experienced it, the peculiar interest, the peculiar satisfaction that lies in a sustained research when one is not hampered by want of money. H G Wells, Tono-Bungay.
Metal Fatigue
Fracture Mechanics
Meccano
Flexagons
Synchronous Clocks
It has been truly said that there is no agony like the agony of literary composition. P G Wodehouse, Jill the Reckless.