Steam Engine

Along came the steam-engine and labor-saving machinery. ❋ Unknown (2010)

In the 19th century improving steam-engine efficiency led to cheaper coal, which led to wider use in locomotives, more iron and steel production, and electricity generation in a virtuous cycle of growth. ❋ Unknown (2011)

This is not more impossible than is the steam-engine impossible or democracy impossible. ❋ Unknown (2010)

In 1830, the first steam-engine locomotive, the Tom Thumb, graced America's railways. ❋ Unknown (2010)

On a flat weedy piece of ground along the railroad tracks to my left was the circular ghost of the steam-engine turntable. ❋ Matt Dellinger (2010)

Dr. Pate showed a slide of a cartoon steam-engine train with cars labeled "Education" and "Disease Control." ❋ Unknown (2010)

What Sharkey found was that Hero, who had designed everything from the aeolipile (the world's first steam-engine, see picture above) to "a vending machine that dispensed a shot of holy water in exchange for a coin," had designed a mobile theatre, complete with Dionysus and some female worshippers, all automata, which came in on a sort of self-propelled, self-guided cart. ❋ Heather McDougal (2007)

David found that the effective use of the new technology required a different physical construction of the factory than the old steam-engine layout. ❋ W. Brain Arthur (2009)

War is a terrible thing… you mistake, too, the people of the North. they are a peaceable people but an earnest people and will fight too… The North can make a steam-engine, locomotive, or railway car; Hardly a yard of cloth or a pair of shoes can you make. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The book might be said to have enjoyed nonstop steam-engine time from the moment it appeared in print -- the best of times rather than the worst of times, all the time. ❋ Unknown (2009)

"Maybe it's a case of steam-engine time," says Mr. Simmons. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Then nonstop steam-engine time chugged into high gear. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Their first steam-engine designs worked great for a decade, then blew up twice. ❋ Da_lj (2007)

"In the end, it is the political context as much as the steam-engine, which had most influence on the shaping consciousness and institutions of the working class" 197. ❋ Daniel Little (2008)

Her screams were so exactly like the whistle of a steam-engine, that Alice had to hold both her hands over her ears. ❋ Sean (2008)

The opposite principle, the capacity of expansion possessed by water, has brought the steam-engine into being. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Hitherto we have, as it were, been looking at a steam-engine with the fires out, and nothing in the boiler; but the body of the living animal is a beautifully-formed active machine, and every part has its different work to do in the working of that machine, which is what we call its life. ❋ Unknown (2007)

If I were suddenly to kill one of these animals and to take out all the soft parts, I should find the shell to be perfectly inert, to have no more power of moving itself than is possessed by the machinery of a mill when disconnected from its steam-engine or water-wheel. ❋ Unknown (2007)

[My girl] came over last night and i gave her the [steam engine]. [CHOO CHOO]! ❋ Bag O' Dicks (2012)

[The rocket] ([first] [train]) ❋ Waffle (2003)

Todd, James, Jonny, Tom, [Harmon], Jamal and Kyle steam engined last night in the house for [hours on end], scared the shit out of [me when i] walked downstairs ❋ Thearcangel696969 (2011)

I saw hombre laying tijauna river with 2 6-packs. Saying [mexican chooka] [chooka],chooka,chooka like a steam engine just blowing shit, water, mud, he was bad ass! [Border patrol] ran back 100 yards. chooka chooka! ❋ Itichie_nocanpo (2006)

I took this [ole] [skank out] on [lovers lane] and gave her the ole Norwegian steam engine. ❋ Wolfbait51 (2011)

The invention of the [steam engine] didn't occur in only one place but was invented independently and in isolation by many [inventors] all over the world. Another example of steam engine time includes the independent invention of the [aeroplane] by people in isolation from each other in many different regions of the world, leading to arguments about "who" invented the aeroplane first. ❋ Wataru108 (2008)

That [kinky] [hipster bitch] [wanted] to do an Alabama steam engine last night. ❋ Cleetus Wagner (2018)

Bob: " damn I miss being young" Joe: " yeah [I remember] me and my sisters would do the [ol'] Alabama steam engine for shits an [giggles]" ❋ MMmMMM_CroNcHY (2021)

Megan! You did [a Nebraska] [Steam Engine]... for your [student loans] and mortgage?!? ❋ Lincoln Homeless Man (2019)

"... dude I had [gastric] pain all day but its okay, because I gave your mom a [Detroit steam engine]... she blew it out her nose like a [smoke stack]." ❋ Detroit Steamerers Deluxe (2010)