Propelling

Examples

• 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.
• Originally, gunpowder was pulverulent, like that used in fire works, and had but little propelling force. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Not disheartened by this failure he built another one, longer and stronger, and this he succeeded in propelling by steam power, though very slowly. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• In some special applications, however, as for propelling torpedoes, where its cost is entirely subordinate to effective results, it might prove to be of value. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• The cable plan has also been tried with some success in the propelling of canal boats. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The Marquis of Worcester, in his Century of Inventions, also speaks vaguely of a mode of propelling ships. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• If a live snake be laid open, the heart will be se en pulsating and propelling its contents. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• The engine had two vertical cylinders and worked the propelling gear with cross-heads and connecting-rods. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• The application of the internal combustion engine to the use of propelling vehicles was the beginning of a new era in that world. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.

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