There were the furnaces, large enough to drive an engine of five or six thousand horsepower.
I, by my acceptance of it, simply put the belt on the drum that connects my loom with the engine, but it is the engine that drives the looms and the shuttle, and brings out the web at last.
But it is said by some that men will think and act for themselves; that none will disuse spirits or anything else because his neighbors do; and that moral influence is not that powerful engine contended for.
Two hours later he telegraphed that Stoneman had captured anengine and six cars on the Virginia Central, which he at once sent to communicate with Porter.
The thunder of the big truck engine was so loud for several minutes that Veve could not make herself heard.
While he, with his discovery, was apparently in a position to let loose upon their defenceless city an engineof destruction too terrible to think of.
He would be found joking with the stokers in the engine room when he might be walking with the Admiral on the quarter-deck, flirting with a deaf old Duchess when he might be supping with the leader of the ballet.
She caught me at it; caught me stripping a dead engine down in the yards by the round house.
She broke away, and scrambled into the engine cab and put the brass where it could not fall out.
The clang of an engine bell in the South Harvey railroad yards drowned the son's answer.
They did not at once hear the exhaust of the engine on the Follow Me; but they did hear something else.
At the edge of the ice (there was not so much snow on this side of the island) he waited to hear the sound of the engine again.
As Dan gradually increased its revolutions they moved faster and faster, while the whine of the engine and the sharp strokes of the wheel-points joined in an ever-increasing roar.
If your engine needs twenty pounds of steam, how foolish it is to keep up a hundred pounds pressure!
It is an engine that has work to do, and accordingly the amount of fuel necessary for the engine should be in proportion to the amount of work that the engine is called on to perform.
Then a number wanted to prostrate themselves before the engine and worship it, so that it was a most difficult thing to prevent their being run over.
Buno, however, refused to be much impressed with the engine or train and complained bitterly because he was not given enough gin.
Passengers very often ride on the engine on this road, and consider it a great treat; so it was only through kindness that you were invited into the cab, as you had asked the conductor to point out all that was of interest, along the way.
I took my place upon the first engine which started for the Capital, and proceeded very cautiously.
I stopped the engine and ran forward to release them, but I did not notice that the wires had been pulled to one side before staking.
I had to run a small steam-engine and to fire the boiler in the cellar of the bobbin factory.
We could not believe the reports that came to us, but it soon became evident that we must rush every engine and car to the front to bring back our defeated forces.
I got upon the engine that took me to Hollidaysburg where the State railroad over the mountain was joined up.
It was a critical situation, for at one o'clock it seemed as if every switch enginein the service started up simultaneously.
Three empty freights kindling wood, front of the engine stove in," reported the fireman.
Knight set the lever for a lazy switch engine taking a siding, sent the noon accommodation on her way, closed the switches after her, and gave attention to Ralph.
In starting to give a switchengine the siding, Ralph found the lever would not budge.
Put a little dummy engine on these rails, and let it run to and fro along the platform car, while the platform car is pulled along the ground track.
Therefore, you reach Abscissa when the engine does, or in ten minutes--ten minutes sooner than if you had lazily sat down upon the rear car and talked politics with the brakeman.
The four corners of the room were occupied respectively by a turning-lathe, a Rhumkorff Coil, a small steam-engine and an orrery in stately motion.
You will be a stupid reasoner, and an indifferent lover, if you don't put for the engine over those platform cars, as fast as your legs will carry you.
But the engine reaches B and the fair lady in ten.
The engine is therefore within a mile of station B.
With a magnetic engine for every truck of wheels, we can reasonably expect to move our immense car, and to drive it along at a speed, say, of a mile a minute.
When the enginereaches B in one minute, the dummy, having gone a mile a-top the platform car, reaches B also.
Your addition to the speed of the engine is trivial, and the space in which you can exercise it, limited.
He gave no thought as to how the conflagration had originated, and did his best to get the engine to the spot.
Jack was naturally a leader, and when he grasped the rope three other young fellows followed, and in a moment the engine was on its way.
Hearing something like a traction-engine snorting behind me, I turned and beheld Marguerite, whose walk was a fat, plethoric waddle, panting down the street.
Once a French aviator, hovering over the town, was obliged to descend owing to some engine trouble.
I imagine that they are a combination of the new 'gas-producer' engine and the turbine system, the explosion of the combined gas and air being split up and passing into the turbine through a number of different channels simultaneously.
In her trembling hand she held the terrible little engine of destruction.
Fortunately the engine was entirely stopped: the Ferryman had the good luck to get hold of the wheel and ascend by it.
Fortunately her engine remained uninjured, and enabled her at about five in the afternoon to reach the wharf in safety.
Facts have already proved that I led no one astray by false theories in her construction; and her engine is upon the model of the very best now generally in use in England.
The engine was completed on the 16th of April, and put on the track the 26th of the same month.
Charles Paynter, Commander, propelled by a Low-Pressure Engine of a Hundred Horse-power.
They have also erected a Steam Engine of ten horse power, of their own manufacture, for propelling their machinery, which is now in complete operation, and they are prepared to build Steam Engines of any size, either high or low pressure.
Every horse-car and railroad engine and donkey-cart is decked with one, and even every mule-driver has one or more tied on his breast.
Aside from the water-motors mentioned, the only motor in use is a small steam-engine in a suburban village, used in a sugar refinery where twelve persons work for wages ranging from twelve to twenty cents per day.
Strangely enough the engineitself sent forth so many sparks, thereby setting fire to numerous awnings and other things along its route, that it was later converted into a tractor engine and is now part of the reserve.
Industry: Added celluloid to the world's products; built first locomotive engine to travel up grade; leads in manufacture of umbrella frames.
Amundsen let the engine work some time, and everybody was down with him to see the wonder with their own eyes, and to be convinced that he really had got it to turn round.
We tried the enginethis time as a compound engine, with a favorable result.
During the days following May 17th we were occupied in getting the engine and its appurtenances ready for work and clearing the rudder-well and the propeller-well.
All that was now left to be done was to get the engine ready for getting up steam, and this we set about on May 18th.
There standeth now an engine or forcier, for the winding up of water to serve the city, whereof I have already spoken.
Adjoining to that house there was lately erected an engine to convey Thames water unto Downegate conduit aforesaid.
If you hear theengine tune up, you'll know it's him takin' the chauffeur down to the sea.
As soon as the vessel had been purchased by the Savannah ship merchants, the work of installing the engine was begun.
She proved that the marine steam engine and side-wheels were practicable for deep-sea navigation.
Moses Rogers, the originator of the venture, induced Scarborough & Isaacs, ship merchants of Savannah, to buy her and fit her with a steam engine for service between Savannah and Liverpool.
Rogers used steam on 18 of the 25 days and doubtless would have resorted to engine power more of the time except for the fact that at one stage of the voyage the fuel was exhausted.
Since the Savannah was primarily a sailing vessel, the loss of steam power by the crippling of the engine would not be serious, as she could continue on her way with paddle-wheels removed and under full sail.
Dynamos are bolted to the floor, purring under their shields like comfortable cats; abaft of them a twenty-horse-power Wolseley petrol-engine supplies motive power for everything.
Her engine acts horizontally and is equal to a 72 horsepower.
I walked about most of the night, and got an engine driver to squirt some hot water into a mess-tin to make tea with out of tablets.
The scream of tortured tires and the crescendo bellowing of the engine combined to form an uproar which, amplified by and reverberating within the resonant shell of metal, threatened to addle the very brain inside the Lensman's skull.
He again shut off his atomics and started the sixteen-cylinder Diesel engine which would do its best to replace them.
The engine started--an internal-combustion engine of well over a thousand horsepower, designed for maximum efficiency by engineers in whose lexicon there were no counterparts of any English words relating to noise, or even to sound.
To turn that tremendous cylindrical engine of destruction around would have been a task of hours, but it was not necessary.
The steam engine helped, in degree if not in kind, by removing water and supplying air.
He could see the bearings and the wrist-pins of the internal-combustion engine of the car, the interior structure of the welds that held the steel plates together, the busy airport outside, and even deep into the ground.
The engine room went first, even though the needlers had to gnaw a hundred-foot hole straight through the pirate craft in order to find the vital installations.
