Small steps Quote by Edward A. Hudson

“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 all know how powerful and varied are the effects of which steam engines are capable; with them has really begun the great development…

— Hermann von Helmholtz

“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

“Conglomerations of factories gave rise to the new industrial cities. Steam engines were later applied to mobile uses – the railway and steamship ushered…

— Edward A. Hudson

There are many points in the history of an invention which the inventor himself is apt to overlook as trifling, but in which posterity…

— David Brewster

In [my] life ... I did not understand steam machinery, but I tried to understand that much more complicated piece of mechanism - man.

— Andrew Carnegie

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

Even the development of the steam engine owed but little to the advancement of science.

— James Bryant Conant

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

— Kurt Andersen

The smoke and the fire and the speed, the action and the sound, and everything that goes together, [the steam engine] is the most…

— O. Winston Link

“Many of his early engines were quite astounding. They were no faster or more powerful than other designs, and yet they were more expensive,…

— Stephen Pile

“It is a curious thought that the earliest description of the steam-engine in antiquity describes its use for the magic opening of the temple…

— Frederick Soddy