Admire Quote by George Bernard Shaw

“The backbone of the electrical grid is largely massive numbers of steam driven engines that turn electrical generators.”

— Steven Magee

“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

I'm fascinated by steam engines and with Victorian engineering generally, and as a corollary to that, I'm fascinated by the idea of long-lived technologies.

— Alastair Reynolds

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

Science, as illustrated by the printing press, the telegraph, the railway, is a double-edged sword. At the same moment that it puts an enormous…

— Richard Jefferies

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 the mariner's…

— Richard Owen

“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

“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

“The first thing I encountered on entering the museum was the earliest steam engine built in England. As I walked on, marveling at each…

— Diego Rivera

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

— Kurt Andersen

The switch from 'steam engines' to 'heat engines' signals the transition from engineering practice to theoretical science.

— Hans Christian von Baeyer

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