The engine was one of the old locomotives of the 'Highland Light' class of around 1870 which Bond had heard called the handsomest steam locomotives ever built.
And then this extraordinary man called Richard Trevithick comes along right at the end of the 18th century, beginning of the 19th, and he really invented the steam locomotive.
Energy to drive a steam locomotive can be stored in other materials besides water for example, a team at Tohoku University in Japan has studied materials that can store large amounts of heat when heated.
And without that, the steam locomotive would not have been possible, because a steam engine had to be able to turn an axle for a steam locomotive to be possible.
Naturally brilliant engineer, and he grew up working with steam locomotives, building steam locomotives, to run on tramways on rails which were set four foot eight and a half inches apart.
Inside the Crystal Palace, exhibit-goers could get a glimpse of the biggest diamond in the world, a carriage drawn by kites, a full-sized steam locomotive, and treasures from India and China.
To my ears the torch hissed louder than a steam locomotive, and when he used it to cut through steel, it blew off thousands of tiny pieces of molten metal that swarmed around him like angry fireflies.