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- James Watt patented his steam engine on the eve of the American Revolution, consummating a relationship between coal and the new Promethean… — Jeremy Rifkin
- 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
- It is arguable whether the human race have been gainers by the march of science beyond the steam engine. Electricity opens a… — Winston Churchill
- 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
- [At the end of the story, its main character, Tom] is now a great man of science, and can plan railroads, and… — Charles Kingsley
- 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
- The mighty steam-engine has its germ in the simple boiler in which the peasant prepares his food. The huge ship is but… — Unknown Author
- Science owes more to the steam engine than the steam engine owes to science. — Lawrence Joseph Henderson
- 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
- Those who admire modern civilization usually identify it with the steam engine and the electric telegraph. — George Bernard Shaw
- How did Don Jackson influence the field of family therapy? How did Watts influence the steam engine? He made it. Others have… — Unknown Author
- 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