Steam-engines Sentence Examples

On the Stockton & Darlington railway, which was authorized by parliament in 1821, animal power was at first proposed, but on the advice of Stephenson, its engineer, steam-engines were adopted.

Other important industries are wood-carving (of an artistic excellence long unknown), artistic iron-working, jewelling, bronze-casting, the production of steam-engines, machinery, matches (largely exported to Turkey, Egypt, Russia, Austria-Hungary and Greece), clock-making, wool-weaving and the manufacture of chemical manures.

In this portion of the pit are generally placed the furnaces for ventilation, and the boilers required for working steam engines underground, as well as the stables and lamp cabin.

Modern screening and washing plants, especially when the small coal forms a considerable proportion of the output, are large and costly, requiring machinery of a capacity of ioo to 150 tons per hour, which absorbs 350 to 400 H.P. In this, as in many other cases, electric motors supplied from a central station are now preferred to separate steam-engines.

Since 1864 agricultural implements, steam-engines, and machinery for beetroot sugar-works, distilleries, &c., have been the chief manufactures.

He took out patents for lamps to burn oil of tar, for the propulsion of ships at sea, for facilitating excavation, mining and sinking, for rotary steam-engines and for other purposes; and so early as 1843 he was an advocate of the employment of steam and the screw propeller in warships.

Smelting, brewing and iron-founding are also carried on, as well as the manufacture of portable steam-engines, and iron ore is raised in the vicinity.

His greatest work, bearing on the practical treatment of steam-engines, forms vol.

The combination of the parallelogram with a straight-line motion, for guiding one of the points in a straight line, is illustrated in Watts parallel motion for steam-engines.

In practice reciprocation is usually effected through a connecting rod, as in the case of steam engines.

When the link forms part of a mechanism the respective accelerations of two points in the link can be determined by means of the velocity and acceleration diagrams described in 82, it being understood that the motion of one link in the mechanism is prescribed, for instance, in the steam-engines mechanism that the crank shall revolve uniformly.

The manufacture of machinery and steam-engines shows an enormous development.

Other important industries include the making of boilers, steam-engines, locomotives, anchors, chain-cables, sailcloth, ropes, paper, woollen and worsted goods, besides general engineering, an aluminium factory, a flax-spinning mill, distilleries and an oil-refinery.

The metallurgical industries of the place are extensive, and include iron and copper founding and the manufacture of steam-engines, machinery, chain-cables and a great variety of heavy iron goods.

Pumping by steam-engines began in 1848, and the lake was dry by the 1st of July 1852.

Here were built iron sailing clippers and huge complex steam engines were fitted into battleships.

In 1797 Richard began experimenting with high pressure steam engines by using models to test the practicality of using this inherently dangerous power source.

Another character, Tinny Day, came with his huge steam-engines to thresh the grain and stack the straw.

This steep northbound climb into the city required rope haulage, powered by two stationary steam engines.

In 1851 British steam engines could produce 1.2 million horsepower which was more than the rest of Europe put together.

Want to create a race to complete a transcontinental railroad in 30 years using only steam engines?

The demise of big steam engines has been predicted since 1968 and it hasn't happened yet.

By the 1860s, cargo ships were being made from iron and powered by steam engines.

Gaze into traditional mash tuns, see the modern Millenium Brewhouse and contrast historic steam engines with the automated equipment in use today.

His grandson, Loftus Perkins (1834-1891), most of whose life was spent in England, experimented with the application to steam engines of steam at very high pressures, constructing in 1880 a yacht, the "Anthracite," whose engines worked with a pressure of 500 th to the sq.

In the transmission of power by compressed air (see POWER TRANSMISSION) the air-driven motors are for the most part machines resembling steam-engines in the general features of their pistons, cylinders, valves and so forth.

Stationary steam engines would be used to pull the wagons along the line.

The demise of big steam engines has been predicted since 1968 and it has n't happened yet.

Steam Powered Engines - Steam engines successfully power automobiles because of their ability to convert the potential energy in pressure build-up in steam to mechanical force.

The main reason steam engines aren't as popular for automobiles as other power sources is that they take time to build pressure.