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
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
If human thought is a growth, like all other growths, its logic is without foundation of its own, and is only the… — Charles Fort 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
A person whose desires and impulses are his own—are the expression of his own nature, as it has been developed and modified… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Electricity is an example of a general purpose technology, like the steam engine before it. General purpose technologies drive most economic growth,… — Erik Brynjolfsson Copy Share Image
How did Don Jackson influence the field of family therapy? How did Watts influence the steam engine? He made it. Others have… — Richard Fisch Copy Share Image
Now comes the second machine age. Computers and other digital advances are doing for mental power - the ability to use our… — Erik Brynjolfsson Copy Share Image
[I predict] the electricity generated by water power is the only thing that is going to keep future generations from freezing. Now… — Charles Proteus Steinmetz Copy Share Image
At some point, that risk-taking private capital can take over, and have patents and trade secrets and things that let them lead… — Bill Gates 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
Now that the steam engine rules the world, a title is an absurdity, still I am all dressed up in this title.… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
It is arguable whether the human race have been gainers by the march of science beyond the steam engine. Electricity opens a… — Winston Churchill 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
Not since the steam engine has any invention disrupted business models like the Internet. Whole industries including music distribution, yellow-pages directories, landline… — John Sununu Copy Share Image
Even the development of the steam engine owed but little to the advancement of science. — James Bryant Conant Copy Share Image
Our modern lifestyle is not a political creation. Before 1700, everybody was poor as hell. Life was short and brutish. It wasn't… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Calculus, the electrical battery, the telephone, the steam engine, the radio - all these groundbreaking innovations were hit upon by multiple inventors… — Steven Johnson Copy Share Image
It takes a thousand men to invent a telegraph, or a steam engine, or a phonograph, or a photograph, or a telephone… — Mark Twain 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
I guess the two things I was most interested in were telescopes and steam engines. My father was an engineer on a… — Clyde Tombaugh Copy Share Image
True science is distinctively the study of useless things. For the useful things will get studied without the aid of scientific men.… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
The North can make a steam engine, locomotive or railway car; hardly a yard of cloth or a pair of shoes can… — William Tecumseh Sherman Copy Share Image
The switch from 'steam engines' to 'heat engines' signals the transition from engineering practice to theoretical science. — Hans Christian von Baeyer 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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