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n. (plural of engine English)

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Engines (children's book)

Engines: Man's Use of Power, from the Water Wheel to the Atomic Pile is a science book for children by L. Sprague de Camp, illustrated by Jack Coggins, published by Golden Press in 1959. A revised edition issued as part of the publisher's Golden Library of Knowledge Series was published in 1961, and a paperback edition in 1969.

As stated on the cover, the work is a survey of "Man's use of power, from the water wheel to the atomic pile."

Usage examples of "engines".

We had not reached our planned coasting velocity when the engines went down, so the balk line must be reset.

I can make black iron, and rockets, and parts for engines and cannons, though.

And in the end, such a being is no longer a person, but a soulless machine like the engines on your black ships.

Shortly thereafter, the heavy engines began to turn the paddles and the Bristan trader chugged northeast across an almost glassy sea.

With decent siege engines or more cannon, neither the towers nor the city walls would have been a problem.

Cyrus Harding could not be mistaken, as, during the war of the Union, he had had occasion to try these terrible engines of destruction.

Only two are known to exist, and these were worn as the insignia of their rank and position by the two old men in whose charge was placed the operation of the great engines which pump the artificial atmosphere to all parts of Mars from the huge atmosphere plant, the secret to whose mighty portals placed in my possession the ability to save from immediate extinction the life of a whole world.

Simultaneously I reversed the engines and dropped the little vessel a sheer hundred feet.

In spite of the throbbing exertions of the engines of the little paddle-boat, and the pouring foam that her wheels flung behind her, she receded with terrifying slowness from this ominous advance.

It was thickly coated with soot from the passing engines, but the black surface was blurred and rubbed in places.

Corrigan considered him not far removed from the brute engines he served.

Bhatterji brings the engines back on line and how much thrust he can give us when he does.

If three engines were available, the ship must begin deceleration in five days or she would be going too fast to enter Jupiter orbit.

I will expect the engines calibrated and ready by no later than the twenty-eighth.

If the engines are not back on line by the thirty-first, the ship will be too fast to enter Jupiter Roads, which will delay our arrival.