James Watt — "I sell here, Sir, what all the world desires to have—POWER."
I sell here, Sir, what all the world desires to have—POWER.
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Quoted by Matthew Boulton to James Boswell, referring to Watt's improved steam engine and its production at Boulton's manufactory.
Date: 1776
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