The Smethwick Engine is a steam engine made by Boulton and Watt, which was installed near Birmingham, England, and was brought into service in May 1779.
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“The machine unmakes the man. Now that the machine is perfect, the engineer is nobody. Every new step in improving the engine restricts one more act of the engineer,—unteaches him.”
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