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These steam quotes cover both relaxation and history, from unwinding by watching a favorite show to the era when steam carried travelers from California to Japan.

Last Updated on May 30, 2021

Days
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Nov 07, 2020

By means of steam one can go from California to Japan in eighteen days.

Quotes by Townsend Harris

Nov 07, 2020

I let steam off by watching 'Downton Abbey.'

Quotes by Nina Arianda

Eruption
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Nov 07, 2020

Obsidian was caused by volcanoes, an eruption of steam and gas so furious that it melted the earth itself into this hard, shiny object.

Quotes by Kathi Appelt

Nov 07, 2020

The railroad originally was as completely dissociated from steam propulsion as was the ship.

Quotes by John Moody

Power
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Nov 07, 2020

Mode of providing steam power to locomotives.

Quotes by John Ericsson

Means
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Nov 07, 2020

In 1854 I took out a patent for puddling iron by means of steam.

Quotes by James Nasmyth

Full
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Nov 07, 2020

When I do something, I do it full steam ahead.

Quotes by Conor McGregor

Engineering
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Nov 07, 2020

I'm fascinated by steam engines and with Victorian engineering generally, and as a corollary to that, I'm fascinated by the idea of long-lived technologies.

Quotes by Alastair Reynolds

Lit
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Nov 07, 2020

Many Americans have a romanticized view of trains, rooted in a bygone era of elaborately adorned rail cars lit by flickering gas lamps and pulled by smoke-belching steam locomotives.

Quotes by Alan Huffman

Others describe steam as a raw natural force, an eruption fierce enough to melt earth itself into obsidian, or as the propulsion once tied closely to railroads.

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