“The steam engine has done much more for science than science has done for the steam engine.” — Lord Kelvin Copy Share Image
The Internet, like the steam engine, is a technological breakthrough that changed the world. — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
Even the development of the steam engine owed but little to the advancement of science. — James Bryant Conant Copy Share Image
Those who admire modern civilization usually identify it with the steam engine and the electric telegraph. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Instead of the scream of a fish hawk scaring the fishes, is heard the whistle of the steam-engine, arousing a country to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Better a poor steam engine that runs, than a good one never finished. — R. G. LeTourneau Copy Share Image
Those who understand the steam engine and the electric telegraph spend their lives in trying to replace them with something better. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I don't think the West needs to apologize - or pay - for having invented the steam engine. — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
“The emergence of the steam engine and its entire subsequent development was driven by market needs. The original need was to pump… — Edward A. Hudson Copy Share Image
Every small boy wanted to be a steam engine driver when they grew up in the old days, including me. There's something… — Michael Bond Copy Share Image
The animal frame, though destined to fulfill so many other ends, is as a machine more perfect than the best contrived steam-engine-that… — James Prescott Joule Copy Share Image
Ingenious philosophers tell you, perhaps, that the great work of the steam-engine is to create leisure for mankind. Do not believe them;… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I have got a scheme to make a thing in the form of a horse with a steam engine in the inside… — Ada Lovelace Copy Share Image
“A cross-section of Watt’s steam engine, the machine that heralded the first industrial revolution. The real benefits of the improved steam engine… — Stefan Heck Copy Share Image
The smoke and the fire and the speed, the action and the sound, and everything that goes together, [the steam engine] is… — O. Winston Link Copy Share Image
“The development of the steam engine was a gradual process. It was a sequence of small steps with a small number of… — Edward A. Hudson Copy Share Image
The mighty steam-engine has its germ in the simple boiler in which the peasant prepares his food. The huge ship is but… — John Timbs Copy Share Image
My steamboat voyage to Albany and back, has turned out rather more favorable than I had calculated. The distance from New York… — Robert Fulton 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
The production of motion in the steam engine always occurs in circumstances which it is necessary to recognize, namely when the equilibrium… — Nicolas Leonard Sadi Carnot Copy Share Image
“In some respects, the sexual mores of Victorian Britain replicated the mechanics of the age-defining steam engine. Blocking the flow of erotic… — Christopher Ryan Copy Share Image
There are many points in the history of an invention which the inventor himself is apt to overlook as trifling, but in… — David Brewster Copy Share Image
The steam-engine in its manifold applications, the crime-decreasing gas-lamp, the lightning conductor, the electric telegraph, the law of storms and rules for… — Richard Owen Copy Share Image
“I had entered the Green [of Glasgow] by the gate at the foot of Charlotte Street—had passed the old washing-house. I was… — James Watt Copy Share Image
“It is a curious thought that the earliest description of the steam-engine in antiquity describes its use for the magic opening of… — Frederick Soddy Copy Share Image
“Steam Engine" So, I do believe None of this is physical At least not to me So, I do believe That anywhere… — My Morning Jacket Copy Share Image
As soon as I have got flying to perfection, I have got a scheme about a steam engine. — Ada Lovelace Copy Share Image
The steam-engine I call fire-demon and great; but it is nothing to the invention of fire. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Science owes more to the steam engine than the steam engine owes to science. — Lawrence Joseph Henderson Copy Share Image
From the radio and the world wide web, to the steam engine and penicillin, for generations the U.K. has been a world-leader… — Alok Sharma Copy Share Image
When steam first began to pump and wheels go round at so many revolutions per minute, what are called business habits were… — George William Russell Copy Share Image
Neither had Watt of the Steam engine a heroic origin, any kindred with the princes of this world. The princes of this… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
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