Cases Quote by David Brewster

“Our greatest invention in the past 200 years was not a particular gadget or tool but the invention of the scientific process itself. Once…

— Kevin Kelly

James Watt patented his steam engine on the eve of the American Revolution, consummating a relationship between coal and the new Promethean spirit of…

— Jeremy Rifkin

“The development of the steam engine was a gradual process. It was a sequence of small steps with a small number of major steps,…

— Edward A. Hudson

“Our greatest invention in the past 200 years was not a particular gadget or tool but the invention of the scientific process itself.”

— Kevin Kelly

“No new technology, during the thousand years between gunpowder and the steam engine, was as disruptive as the printing press,”

— Kurt Andersen

“The emergence of the steam engine and its entire subsequent development was driven by market needs. The original need was to pump water out…

— Edward A. Hudson

You can invent things like automatic popcorn poppers. You can invent things like steam-powered window washers. But you can’t invent more time.

— Anonymous

Calculus, the electrical battery, the telephone, the steam engine, the radio - all these groundbreaking innovations were hit upon by multiple inventors working in…

— Steven Johnson

Now comes the second machine age. Computers and other digital advances are doing for mental power - the ability to use our brains to…

— Erik Brynjolfsson

“A cross-section of Watt’s steam engine, the machine that heralded the first industrial revolution. The real benefits of the improved steam engine didn’t take…

— Stefan Heck

A new and speculative idea, which although it may seem trivial and almost laughable, is nonetheless of great value in quickening the spirit of…

— Michael J. Gelb

Invention breeds invention.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson