British Quote by Stephen Baxter

“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

“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 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

“But I was not so much interested in facts themselves as in the importance they had for my imagination. I was passionately interested in…

— L.P. Hartley

“At the heart of the industrialization process was iron and steel, and Britain was pre-eminent in their production.”

— Thomas Sowell

“those parts of the British Isles without the advantage of coal deposits or ports, industrialization was as handicapped as in other countries.”

— Thomas Sowell

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

“No new technology, during the thousand years between gunpowder and the steam engine, was as disruptive as the printing press,”

— Kurt Andersen

“The term railway was to Victorian England what atomic or aerodynamic were to be after World War II, and network and virtual are today.…

— Richard Bookstaber

“the railroad and the steamship affected not only industry and commerce, but also the lives of millions of ordinary people.”

— Thomas Sowell

Industrialization came to England but has since left.

— P. J. O'Rourke

“bloated industrials, who were piling up fortunes abroad while they were wrecking their country at home.”

— John Buchan