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steam engines

n. (plural of steam engine English)

Usage examples of "steam engines".

Soon matters turned to steam engines and gas turbines, and rockmilk, and the gearwork of a harness, and bits and bridles the size of ships.

The bedsprings and old windows, the girders and steam engines from ancient locomotives, the air-pumps and fans, the pulleys and belts and shattered powerlooms were falling like an optical illusion into an alternative configuration.

Foote shouted excitedly through his speaking trumpet to the boats moored beside his flagship- oose a curtain through the fleet, the mortar rafts let I As word passed e sound of Carondelet's steam engines.

Where I was brought up, experts understood steam engines, a little.

Nat explained some of the details of the previous night's Executive Committee meeting, especially the need for steam engines to provide power for the electrical system.

The early shifts of workers began to trudge into the factories and abase themselves before the vast chains, the steam engines and juddering hammers of those profane cathedrals.

The new lathes had been converted to work from leather belts taking off a power shaft rigged near the ceiling, and she could hear the chuffing of one of Leaton's prize steam engines.

Without aether, the great steam engines which power England's factories and bear the fruits of the mill and the mine would halt, or explode under their own pressure.

But steam engines are getting smaller and more powerful at the same time&mdash.

Rendered whale blubber didn't help either, or factories driven by wood-fired steam engines, or….

He had grown up in a world where steam engines were high tech, and schooners and flintlocks everyday realities.