Today, nothing is unusual about a scientific discovery's being followed soon after by a technical application: The discovery of electrons led to… — Edward Teller Copy Share Image
James Watt patented his steam engine on the eve of the American Revolution, consummating a relationship between coal and the new Promethean… — Jeremy Rifkin Copy Share Image
James Watt was equally distinguished as a natural philosopher and chemist; his inventions demonstrate his profound knowledge of those sciences, and that… — Humphry Davy Copy Share Image
“I have been branded with folly and madness for attempting what the world calls impossibilities, and even from the great engineer, the… — Richard Trevithick Copy Share Image
The best ideas aren't hidden in shadowy recesses. They're right in front of us, hidden in plain sight. Innovation seldom depends on… — Richard Farson Copy Share Image
For the birth of something new, there has to be a happening. Newton saw an apple fall; James Watt watched a kettle… — Alexander Fleming Copy Share Image
“The Industrial Revolution started and made its biggest strides in England because of her uniquely inclusive economic institutions. These in turn were… — Daron Acemoğlu Copy Share Image
I wanted to be an inventor, whatever I thought that meant then. I guess I was thinking of Edison or maybe James… — David Antin Copy Share Image
“The strategy of this book, then, is to awaken us from the dream that the world is about to end, because action… — Timothy Morton Copy Share Image
“Is it possible that the Pentateuch could not have been written by uninspired men? that the assistance of God was necessary to… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“Just as James Watt refused to license his steam engine, suppressing the development of that technology over the quarter century that elapsed… — Adam Greenfield Copy Share Image
