Steam-power Sentence Examples

The appended table shows the progress made since 1850 with regard to steam power.

The great future that seemed to await the application of steam power to the tillage of the soil proved illusory.

In 1888, at Nottingham, hay and straw presses for steam-power, horse-power and handpower were the subjects of competition.

The Baltimore & Ohio railway was to cross his property, and, after various inventions aiming to do away with the locomotive crank and thus save two-fifths of the steam, in 1830 he designed and constructed (largely after plans made two years before) the first steam locomotive built in America; though only a small model it proved the practicability of using steam power for working that line.

In most modern works the greater part of these operations, as well as the actual rolling of the glass, is carried out by mechanical means, steam power and subsequently electrical power having been successfully applied to this purpose; the handling of the great weights of glass required for the largest sheets of plate-glass which are produced at the present time would, indeed, be impossible without the aid of machinery.

The piston was in communication with a vacuum vessel from which the air had been pumped by steam power.

On the introduction of steam-power and machinery the worsted trade advanced with great rapidity.

In 1890 also the Hall process operated by steam power was installed at Patricroft, Lancashire, where the plant had a capacity of 300 lb per day, but by 1894 the turbines of the Swiss and French works ruined the enterprise.

For ordinary waterretted flax two operations are required, first breaking and then scutching, and these are done either by hand labour or by means of small scutching or lint mills, driven either by water or steam power.

He induced the proprietor of The Times (London) to take two of these machines, and in 1814 that newspaper was printed with steam power at the rate of i roo impressions per hour, a great advance on the number produced up to that time.

And while his invention, Portland cement, is seldom celebrated in the same breath as steam power or the.. .

Steamboat Natchez---The steamboat Natchez is another traditional vessel operating under old-fashioned steam power.

Perhaps their most common use is in ploughing on a large scale in conjunction with steam power.

The machine frequently resembles a brickmaker's wash-mill, and is worked by horse or steam power.

Steam-power was applied to them by Matthew Boulton and Watt in Birmingham in 1788, and was adopted by the Royal Mint, London, in 1810.