Engines

Examples

• The large and powerful engines on the Great Western Railway have, however, only two driving wheels, which are 8 feet in diameter. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• These engines weigh as much as 31 tons, which is seven times more than the weight of the Rocket. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• In the Hetton Railway, which ran for a part of its distance through rough country, he used stationary engines wherever he could not secure grades that would make locomotives practicable. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• The study and application of these conditions created great advancements in gas engines. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• If it ends in your setting the house on fire, Damme if I send for the engines, unless you ring the bell and order them first! Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• They are said to be the first gas-steam engines to be put to practical use. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The station at Berlin comprised five boilers, and six vertical steam-engines driving by belts twelve Edison dynamos, each of about fifty-five horse-power capacity. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Air engines have been invented which can be used to either heat or cool the air, or do one or the other automatically. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Orders began to flow in, and Watt had his hands full in traveling about the country superintending the erection of his steam-engines. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Fleeming Jenkins that Gas engines will ultimately supplant the steam. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Such boilers are adapted for portable stationary engines, locomotives, fire and marine engines, and the fire is built within the boiler frame. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Three other engines competed with the Rocket, two of which had attained great speed on previous trials. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• The latest type of super-dreadnaught for the United States Navy, with a displacement of 27,500 tons and engines of 28,000 horse-power. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• A land of money-worship, a land of noisy steam-engines, a land of poverty and wealth—extremes in both cases. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• Even the lightest engines made at that time were very heavy per unit of power, and rather crude in construction. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Among them was the owner of a colliery in the north named Blackett, who built a number of engines for propelling coal-cars and used them at his mines. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• The engines and paddle wheels of the Adirondack are distinctly representative of the modern American side wheel steamer. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• The 15th of September was the day appointed, and there were eight locomotive engines provided to propel the same number of trains of carriages, which were to form the procession. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• They are divided into two great classes, single and double acting engines, accordingly as the water is admitted to one side of the piston only, or to both sides alternately. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Her engines are of the twin screw, vertical triple expansion direct acting inverted cylinder type. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• The Duke of Wellington, Sir Robert Peel, and Mr. Huskisson were among those who were walking on the railway, when one of the engines was recklessly put in action, and propelled along the line. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• Watt’s patents of 1769 and 1784 contemplated the application of his steam engines to carriages running on land. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• In the 4-cycle type of gas engines (Fig. 130)--the kind used in automobiles--the four strokes are as follows: 1. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Motor Engines not Produced until Seventeenth Century. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• But now a factory and its engines and machines became a vast and costly thing, measured by the scale of the worker's pocket. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• While he was doing this Stephenson was patiently building new locomotives, and trying to induce the mine-owners along the Tyne to replace their horse-cars with his engines. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• The average performance of the engines was 26 strokes per minute, and the number of revolutions of the screw in the same time was 138?. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• If I can open these doors is there a man who can start the engines? Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• The efficiency of the Diesel engine is high, and it can use low grades of fuel, but it has the disadvantage of greater weight per horse-power than other engines. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The engines and dynamos made a horrible racket, from loud and deep groans to a hideous shriek, and the place seemed to be filled with sparks and flames of all colors. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.

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