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The steam-engine I call fire-demon and great; but it is nothing to the invention of fire.

— Thomas Carlyle

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

— Andrew Carnegie

“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

As the train rounded the curve, the great smoking stacks of the Edgar Thomson works, the flaming converters belching forth, made such a vivid…

— Charles M. Schwab

The reason 'Fireball' is my favorite album of that period is that without 'Fireball,' we would never have been able to make 'Machine Head.'

— Ian Gillan

Almost everything is like a machine.

— Ray Dalio

“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 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

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

— George Bernard Shaw

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