"Nothing man has discovered or imagined is to be named with the steam engine. It has no fellow."

"When once the idea of the separate condensation was started, all these improvements followed as corollaries in quick succession, so that in the course of one or two days the invention was thus far com…"

"He says that he got the idea from a lobster's tail."

"About 6 or 8 years ago My Ingenious friend Mr John Robinson having [contrived] conceived that a fire engine might be made without a Lever—by Inverting the Cylinder & placing it above the mouth of the …"

"The power of steam is like a wild horse; it must be harnessed with precision."