NOUN
- external-combustion engine in which heat is used to raise steam which either turns a turbine or forces a piston to move up and down in a cylinder
How To Use steam engine In A Sentence
- If that's not enough, you can book ahead to fire up and drive a steam engine for yourself. Times, Sunday Times
- The solid sludge is siphoned off and burnt in a steam engine to produce enough electricity to process the next batch of waste. Times, Sunday Times
- I wonder if it derives in any way from steam engines. Times, Sunday Times
- He said the 41 ft long steam engine, with a flywheel 14 ft in diameter, was in very good condition.
- The term horsepower was coined by James Watt (1736-1819), the Scottish inventor and mechanical engineer renowned for his improvements of the steam engine. Horsepower hour
- The Coalbrookdale Company had smelted its last iron in the area by 1821, and that year had dismantled the Resolution steam engine that pumped water up the dale to power the furnace bellows.
- The central part of the nigrescent parade was drawn by a steam engine wholly different in appearance, this one looking less like a maladroit tin shed mounted upon a wheeled chassis and a lot more like a vehicle designed for such labour as this.
- In the 1760s, a scientist in England invented a way to put steam engines and wheels together.
- They were also troubled by what many saw as the antisupernaturalistic and antitheistic bent of science: could one really believe in the New Testament world of spirits and miracles in the era of the steam engine and ocean liner? Warranted Christian Belief
- She ran on a 700-horsepower steam engine and had four jury masts on which four trysails and a jib could be set for emergencies.