Electric Quote by George Bernard Shaw

Those who admire modern civilization usually identify it with the steam engine and the electric telegraph.

— George Bernard Shaw

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

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

— Steven Magee

Better a poor steam engine that runs, than a good one never finished.

— R. G. LeTourneau

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

— Andrew Carnegie

Brands were a by-product of having great products and communicating them well to people. Power stations that generate a lot of electricity probably have…

— Hans Snook

In the same way that when the car got going, people thought it would be an electric car, people thought it would be a…

— Bill Gates

The complicated engines manufactured by men demand, if one really wants to use them, much calm. Ever since our love for machines replaced the…

— Man Ray

“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 idea of gas engines was by no means new, but this was the first time that a really serious effort had been made…

— Henry Ford

“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

One of my earliest memories of something that caught my attention was of a steam locomotive. I guess mainly because they have so many…

— Jim Peebles