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Steam engine

noun

External-combustion engine in which heat is used to raise steam which either turns a turbine or forces a piston to move up and down in a cylinder.

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"Steam engine" Quotes from Famous Books

... done if I have to work like a steam engine!" she exclaimed to Grace, thrusting in and drawing out her needle with a rapidity ...

— Christmas with Grandma Elsie • Martha Finley

... gathered upon deck. There was no wind, but the yacht had a steam engine and used her sails only on occasions when they could be of service. Stars shone brightly in the sky overhead, but their light was not sufficient to give an extended view on land or water, and as all were weary with the excitement ...

— Elsie's Vacation and After Events • Martha Finley

... come together, however, at last, and then follows the excitement of the trial. There is nothing more striking in the history of the construction of a steam engine than this, that there can be no partial or private tests of the work by the workmen in the course of its progress—but every thing remains in suspense until all is complete, and the ship and the machinery are actually ready for sea. The immense and ponderous ...

— Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 2, No. 12, May, 1851. • Various

... encouraged to ask his on. Thus in undertaking the examination of a given topic—say, the Battle of Hastings (SS69-75), the issue of the Great Charter (SS195-202), or "The Industrial Revolution" and Watt's invention of an improved Steam Engine (S563)—there are five inquiries which naturally arise and which ...

— The Leading Facts of English History • D.H. Montgomery

... materialism, argumentation, logic; the quotation, (referred to a motto "in the Swiss gardens"), "Speech is silvern, silence is golden," and a loud assertion that all great things are silent. The age is commended for Watt's steam engine, Arkwright's spinning jenny, and Whitfield's preaching, but its policy and theories are alike belittled. The summaries of the leading writers are interesting, some curious, and a few absurd. On the threshold of the age Dryden is noted "as a great poet born in the worst of times": Addison ...

— Thomas Carlyle - Biography • John Nichol

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