Begun Quote by Hermann von Helmholtz

“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

“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'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

I shed many a tear when the steam engines went out of style on the railroads. I'd like to seem them come back, but…

— Clyde Tombaugh

“By now there were whole new Industrial Revolutions going on in the Low Earths; the British seemed to have the building of steam engines…

— Stephen Baxter

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

— Andrew Carnegie

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

“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

“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

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

— R. G. LeTourneau

Those who understand the steam engine and the electric telegraph spend their lives in trying to replace them with something better.

— George Bernard Shaw

Steam is no stronger now than it was a hundred years ago, but it is put to better use.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson