"Steam engine" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... which was not powerful enough, was replaced by a 14-horse power "semi-portable" steam engine, by Ransomes & Co., of Ipswich—an engine of sufficient power to drive double the required number of lights. The dynamo machine is a No. 7 Brush. There are sixteen lamps in all—eight on each side of the court. The machine has given no trouble whatever, ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 288 - July 9, 1881 • Various
... framing" is a framing made of iron, but a "steam engine" (maquina a vapor) is an engine ...
— Pitman's Commercial Spanish Grammar (2nd ed.) • C. A. Toledano
... a day at Birmingham, on purpose to see Watt and Boulton's manufactory of steam engines at Soho. Mr. Boulton showed us everything. The engines, some in action, although beautifully smooth, showed a power that was almost fearful. Since these early forms of the steam engine I have lived to see this all but omnipotent instrument change the locomotion of the whole civilized world by sea and ...
— Personal Recollections, from Early Life to Old Age, of Mary Somerville • Mary Somerville
... in Adolphe's lap, and Adolphe cannot help smiling. This smile, extracted as if by a steam engine, Caroline has been on the watch for, in order to ...
— Petty Troubles of Married Life, Part First • Honore de Balzac
... been so trained in youth that his body is the ready servant of his will, and does with ease and pleasure all the work that, as a mechanism, it is capable of; whose intellect is a clear, cold, logic engine, with all its parts of equal strength, and in smooth working order; ready, like a steam engine, to be turned to any kind of work, and spin the gossamers as well as forge the anchors of the mind; whose mind is stored with a knowledge of the great and fundamental truths of Nature and of the laws of her ...
— Science & Education • Thomas H. Huxley
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