Steam Technology Quotes

In the United States three new methods of transportation made their appearance at almost the same time - the steamboat, the canal boat, and the rail car.

Those who first cross the Atlantic in a steam-boat will be entitled to a great portion of applause. In a few years we expect such trips will be common ... and bold will they be who first make a passage to Europe in a steam-boat.

The railroad originally was as completely dissociated from steam propulsion as was the ship.

As soon as I have got flying to perfection, I have got a scheme about a steam engine.

In the same way that when the car got going, people thought it would be an electric car, people thought it would be a steam car.

In 1854 I took out a patent for puddling iron by means of steam.

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.

I guess the two things I was most interested in were telescopes and steam engines. My father was an engineer on a threshing rig steam engine and I loved the machinery.

Mode of providing steam power to locomotives.

Steam seems to have killed all gratitude in the hearts of sailors.

The productions of the press, fast as steam can make and carry them, go abroad through all the land, silent as snowflakes, but potent as thunder. It is an additional tongue of steam and lightning, by which a man speaks his first thought, his instant argument or grievance, to millions in a day.

Lie bills and calculations much perplexed, With steam-boats, frigates, and machinery quaint Traced over them in blue and yellow paint.