Having failed to fulfil that condition, the patent privilege was left open, and was promised to the first inventor who succeeded in propelling a boat by steam power at the proposed speed of four miles an hour.
Not disheartened by this failure he built another one, longer and stronger, and this he succeeded in propelling by steam power, though very slowly.
In commerce this substance is made in large cast-iron pots, fitted with tight covers, and provided with stirrers worked by steam power.
Each beam is covered at the bottom with iron, and is made to rise and fall in succession by means of projections from a horizontal axle, made to revolve either by water or steam power.
On the large scale, steam power is now generally employed for this purpose.
A kind of heavy hammer, or pestle, raised by water or steam power, for beating ores to powder; anything like a pestle, used for pounding or bathing.
Like windmills these watermills are for the greater part superseded by steam power; the locality, &c.
He could still see his own lathe, driven by steam power, in full operation for the benefit of his son.
He was a dangerously enthusiastic man, and entertained the most visionary ideas as to steam power.
A tool is usually more simple than a machine; it is generally used with the hand, whilst a machine is frequently moved by animal or steam power.
In converting cast into wrought-iron, a mass of metal, of about a hundredweight, is heated almost to white heat, and placed under a heavy hammer moved by water or steam power.
The screw presses are either worked by manual labour, by water, or by steam power.
The central station contains a number of powerful dynamo machines, driven usually by steam power.
The work is much quickened by the substitution of steam power, water power, or even horse power for manual labor.
Although Watt was thus attracted by pursuits foreign to his recent investigations respecting the improvement of steam power, he never lost sight of that object.
JAMES WATT, to whom the world is so largely indebted for the extension and improvement of steam power, had from his birth an extremely delicate constitution.
The application of steam powerto this class of manufactures is of but recent date.
The bar thus made is twisted in a cold state by steam power round a bar into a barrel shape, then heated and welded together.
No place has made a more desperate resistance to the introduction of steam power.
A small factory was set up in Coventry by way of experiment, in the use of steam power, in 1831.
Up to a late period, the Coventry weavers believed themselves safe from the inroads of steam power.
It differs from a steam-hammer properly so called in that while it is raised by steam power it falls by gravity, striking the metal in the dies by its own impetus, whereas the steam-hammer head is driven down by a piston.
For quick action, nicely adjusted machinery, and showy finish the steam fire engine is a familiar and conspicuous application of steam power.
The earliest applications in this century of steam powerwere in the line of road engines.
The Times announced to its readers that day that they were for the first time perusing a paper printed upon a machine driven by steam power.
This peculiar character of the Moss has presented an insuperable difficulty in the way of reclaiming it by any system of extensive drainage—such as by sinking shafts, and pumping up the water by steam power, as has been proposed.
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