Engine Quote by R. G. LeTourneau

The Internet, like the steam engine, is a technological breakthrough that changed the world.

— Peter Singer

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

— Thomas Carlyle

The smoke and the fire and the speed, the action and the sound, and everything that goes together, [the steam engine] is the most…

— O. Winston Link

Every small boy wanted to be a steam engine driver when they grew up in the old days, including me. There's something very special…

— Michael Bond

Love is like a vehicle the engine runs perfectly fine until it breaks down.. Some can't be repaired while others can be ... Sad…

— Taye

The animal frame, though destined to fulfill so many other ends, is as a machine more perfect than the best contrived steam-engine-that is, is…

— James Prescott Joule

Ingenious philosophers tell you, perhaps, that the great work of the steam-engine is to create leisure for mankind. Do not believe them; it only…

— George Eliot

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

My steamboat voyage to Albany and back, has turned out rather more favorable than I had calculated. The distance from New York to Albany…

— Robert Fulton

The production of motion in the steam engine always occurs in circumstances which it is necessary to recognize, namely when the equilibrium of caloric…

— Nicolas Leonard Sadi Carnot

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

— George Bernard Shaw

Science owes more to the steam engine than the steam engine owes to science.

— Lawrence Joseph Henderson