"No useless discourse. All conversation which does not serve to enlighten ourselves or others, to interest the heart o…"

"Nature, in providing us with combustibles on all sides, has given us the power to produce, at all times and in all pl…"

"Iron and heat are... the supporters, the bases, of the mechanic arts."

"To take away to-day from England her steam-engines would be to take away at the same time her coal and iron. It would…"

"Steam navigation... tends to unite the nations of the earth as inhahitants of one country. ...is not this the same as…"

"There is almost as great a distance between the first apparatus in which the expansive force of steam was displayed a…"

"Savery, Newcomen, Smeaton, the famous Watt, Woolf, Trevithick, and some other English engineers, are the veritable cr…"

"Notwithstanding the work of all kinds done by steam-engines... their theory is very little understood, and the attemp…"

"The phenomenon of the production of motion by heat has not been considered from a sufficiently general point of view.…"

"Abstain from all pleasantry which could wound."