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beam engines
n. (beam engine English)
Usage examples of "beam engines".
At 569 tons, Charleston was a side-wheel steamer with a length of 201 feet and a 24-foot beam and was propelled by two walking-beam engines fired by two boilers and a smaller auxiliary.
With no one to tend them, the boilers that created heat to make the steam that powered the walking beam engines had cooled to such a degree that Pitt could lay the palm of his bare hand against their thick riveted sides without blistering his skin.
From the floating cylinder came a high- pitched whine as the repulsor-beam engines strained against the additional load.
He had made little beam engines which would have delighted James Watt and still delighted those who are fascinated by such things.