Computers Quote by Stefan Heck

You all know how powerful and varied are the effects of which steam engines are capable; with them has really begun the great development…

— 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

James Watt patented his steam engine on the eve of the American Revolution, consummating a relationship between coal and the new Promethean spirit of…

— Jeremy Rifkin

Now comes the second machine age. Computers and other digital advances are doing for mental power - the ability to use our brains to…

— Erik Brynjolfsson

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

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

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

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

— Hans Christian von Baeyer

“Technological innovations had shifted the basis of England’s economy from agriculture to industry between 1750 and 1850. The development of steam power and a boom”

— Charles Dickens

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

— George Bernard Shaw