Back Quote by Gus Grissom

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

— Hans Christian von Baeyer

My dad's a boilermaker, my mom was a teacher.

— Lily Gladstone

I have invented the Thermometer style.

— Josef Albers

The people who taught really knew their stuff. My chemistry teacher, Frank Wade, was actually a chemist. I was so lucky in a number…

— Kurt Vonnegut

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

— James Bryant Conant

“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

I guess the two things I was most interested in were telescopes and steam engines. My father was an engineer on a threshing rig…

— Clyde Tombaugh

I founded an educational software company called Knowledge Revolution. We had the first fully animated physics lab on the computer. You could take ropes,…

— David Baszucki

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

“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 instruments, glassware, and chemical reagents necessary for my project were the same as my 19th-century predecessors had.

— Rita Levi-Montalcini