James Watt — "Nothing man has discovered or imagined is to be named with the steam engine. It …"
Nothing man has discovered or imagined is to be named with the steam engine. It has no fellow.
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Attributed to James Watt in Andrew Carnegie's biography of him, 'James Watt'.
Date: c. late 18th/early 19th century
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