STEAM

Related Subjects: Machinery, Power

1. Soon shall thy arm, unconquer'd steam! afar
   Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car;
   Or on wide-waving wings expanded bear
   The flying chariot through the field of air.—ERASMUS DARWIN, The Botanic Garden
   

2. Steam is an apt scholar and a strong-shouldered fellow.—EMERSON, Society and Solitude
   

3. Fulton knocked at the door of Napoleon with steam, and was rejected; and Napoleon lived long enough to know that he had excluded a greater power than his own.—HORATIO GREENOUGH
   

4. Steam, that great civilizer.—FREEMAN HUNT, American Merchants
   

5. Steam engines are very human. Their very weaknesses are understandable. Steam engines do not flash back and blow your face in. They do not short-circuit and rive your heart with imponderable electric force. They have arms and lets and warm hearts and veins full of warm vapour. Give us steam every time. You know where you are with steam.—WILLIAM MCFEE, A Six-hour Shift
   

6. The story of the steam engine in inextricably bound up with the name of James Watt. Watt's fame rests on his improvements which made the engine truly practical and efficient, rather than on the discovery of the first principle.—JOHN A. MALONEY, Great Inventors
   

7. What was probably the earliest design for a steam engine was nineteen hundred years old when Watt applied for his patent, for an Alexandrian Greek named Hero had built a crude steam turbine, although he made no further experiments.—JOHN A. MALONEY, Great Inventors