Propel

Examples

• 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.
• Not only are launches and automobiles making use of gas power, but the gasoline engine has made it possible to propel a?roplanes through the air. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• But there was no support for the rider's feet, and the vehicle was propelled by thrusting his feet alternately against the ground. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Lord Dundas at the beginning of the century had an iron boat built for the Forth and Clyde Canal, which was propelled by steam. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the 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.
• Passing from the slumber of the middle ages, we are assured by some Spanish historians that one Blasco de Garay, in 1543, propelled a ship having paddle wheels by steam at Barcelona. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• From then on my mind dwelt a great deal upon the subject of a self-propelled vehicle that could be used on any country road or city street. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Boats were propelled by it, cars were hauled, and even papers printed. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Sir Isaac Newton in 1680 proposed a steam carriage propelled by the reaction of a jet of steam. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• 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.
• As early as 1680 Sir Isaac Newton proposed a steam carriage in which the propelling power was the reactionary discharge of a rearwardly directed jet of steam. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• In 1786-7 he obtained in Pennsylvania and Maryland patents for applying steam to driving flour mills and propelling waggons. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The machine in the lower view is self-propelling, cuts and threshes the grain, throwing out the straw, and places the grain in sacks ready for loading on the wagon. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The principle of the dry condenser has, however, been lately made available in a new kind of engine, wherein the combined action of steam and of spirit vapour is applied as the propelling power. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• In 1802 he had started a course of calculations on the resistance of water, and the comparative advantages of the known means of propelling vessels. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• One was used in connection with the propelling lever, which was provided with a pawl to fit into the teeth of the reversed ratchet wheel on its forward movement. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The driver sits on top of this plane upon a seat constructed over the small, noiseless radium engine which propels it. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• Of course, by moving his tail from side to side he propels himself forward and by bending his tail he goes in the direction in which it is bent. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.

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