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Example sentences for "steam engine"

  • This later submarine had all the good features of Fulton’s craft, besides the history-making improvement of using a steam engine to drive her—not only when she was afloat but when she was submerged as well.

  • Fulton did not attempt, though, to use a steam engine to drive the propeller, but turned it by hand.

  • The condition of rarefaction, or reduction of pressure below that of the atmosphere, in a vessel, as the condenser of a steam engine, which is nearly exhausted of air or steam, etc.

  • Now, scientifically, I know nothing about a steam engine; practically, I know how to stop and start one.

  • Newcomen had, as we have seen, produced the modern type of steam engine as an original and wholly novel invention.

  • Exhaust port (Steam Engine), the opening, in the cylinder or valve, by which the exhaust steam escapes.

  • Exhaust pipe (Steam Engine), the pipe that conveys exhaust steam from the cylinder to the atmosphere or to the condenser.

  • After taking into consideration all the facts of the case, I decided to use a steam engine.

  • This was connected to a fan blower driven by a steam engine having a governor that worked directly on the point of cut-off.

  • When the channel will permit, we can put in a steam engine.

  • Here the travelers got their first view of a steam engine.

  • Furthermore, It Describes the Soaping of the Brimsteads and the Capture of the Veiled Bear II Wherein Is Recorded the Vivid Impression Made upon the Travelers by Their View of a Steam Engine and of the Famous Erie Canal.

  • Is not the conical pendulum or governor of a steam engine driven by the engine?

  • It is from the sun too that the power comes which is liberated in a steam engine.

  • If a hole be opened into a condenser of a steam engine, will air rush into it?

  • It has already been pointed out that it is in some cases convenient to use a steam engine to create an artificial head of water, which is afterwards employed in driving water-pressure machinery.

  • If the water with this pressure acts on a movable piston like that of a steam engine, it will drive the piston so that the volume described is Q cubic feet per second.

  • Again, coal is burned under the boiler of a steam engine.

  • But we cannot trace the process with the same clearness as in the cylinder of a steam engine.

  • Hence heat disappears when work is done; that is, is converted into mechanical energy, and a steam engine is hence called a heat engine; an engine for converting heat into work, according to the law of the conservation of energy.

  • Herein we see a departure from the parallel with the steam engine.

  • Steam Engine=, with a description of the Automatic Governor.

  • A beautiful painting or statue is a material object in the same sense as that in which a steam engine is; but its office is to stimulate the mind, as a poem does.

  • Now the legion was just as truly an invented machine as a steam engine is; and it had a greater influence on history than the steam engine has ever had thus far.

  • Another case would be one in which the mission was stated by the terms of a problem itself; for instance, to build a steam engine to develop 1000 horse power.

  • The invention of a myth may be said to be the invention of an immaterial thing; the invention of a steam engine to be of a material thing.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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