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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.

Time passed by. I had furnished steam hammers to the principal foundries in England. I had sent them abroad, even to Russia. At length it became known to the Lords of the Admiralty that a new power in forging had been introduced.

The only time I ever enjoyed ironing was the day I accidentally got gin in the steam iron.

I'm an inventor.

I have invented the Thermometer style.

I don't iron anything. Never have and never will.

My training and my inclination is to invent.

We too could wrest iron from the bowels of the earth and fashion it into ships and machines.

I was a fighting machine with a will of iron.