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
This London City, with all of its houses, palaces, steam-engines, cathedrals, and huge immeasurable traffic an tumult, what is it but a… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The wind, as a direct motive power, is wholly inapplicable to a system of machine labour, for during a calm season the… — William Stanley Jevons 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
The US in some ways has been the best. Who figured out shale gas? Although that wasn't a good thing [for CO2… — Bill Gates 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
Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine, and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of… — L. Frank Baum 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
Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine, and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
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
To me the Universe was all void of Life, of Purpose, of Volition, even of Hostility; it was one huge, dead, immeasurable… — Thomas Carlyle 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
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
Culture is not created by command. It creates itself, arising spontaneously from the necessities of men and their social cooperative activity. No… — Rudolf Rocker Copy Share Image
History was a trash bag of random coincidences torn open in a wind. Surely, Watt with his steam engine, Faraday with his… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
Life may be defined to be the power of self-augmentation or assimilation, not of self-nurture; for then a steam-engine over a coal-pit… — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
[At the end of the story, its main character, Tom] is now a great man of science, and can plan railroads, and… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
The Internet, like the steam engine, is a technological breakthrough that changed the world. — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
Once the steam engine went away and we started moving into burning fossil fuels - not just burning them, but everything we… — Don Cheadle Copy Share Image
Science owes more to the steam engine than the steam engine owes to science. — Lawrence Joseph Henderson Copy Share Image
The time will come when people will travel in stages moved by steam engines from one city to another, almost as fast… — Oliver Evans 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
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
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