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Meanings of steam engine in English

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Usage of steam engine in English
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Information Age invention, like the steam engine or electricity-starteda revolution, right?
Hollow World
2
The first industrial revolution came from new technology - the steam engine.
The Irish Times
3
So he set about constructing a steam engine to power the drill.
Land of marvels
4
In startlingly quick succession came smelting, the steam engine, the electric current.
Star Maker
5
The cotton gin, the first steam engine, the telephone, internal combustion engine.
Sympathy for the devil
6
This was substantially the Newcomen steam engine, but without the separate boiler.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 484, April 11, 1885
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To the point of wanting to hit me with a steam engine.'
The Watchmaker of Filigree Street
8
When the channel will permit, we can put in a steam engine.'
A Man for the Ages: A Story of the Builders of Democracy
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His tail is up and he is snorting like a steam engine.
In Africa: Hunting Adventures in the Big Game Country
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If they want to make a steam engine, they'll make that instead.
The Guardian
11
What of the steam engine, what of machinery, what of unknown developments?
Children of the Market Place
12
As well expect a bunch of monkeys to build a steam engine!
The Emancipatrix
13
Oh, nonsense, you will pick up strength like a steam engine now.
Among Malay Pirates : a Tale of Adventure and Peril
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But the machine just looked silly, not majestic like a steam engine.
Anno Dracula
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The engine is propelled much in the same way as a steam engine.
The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 16...
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It was for this task that Newcomen created the first practical steam engine.
Wired