From the rather dismal rooms at Wragby she heard the rattle-rattle of the screens at the pit, the puff of the winding-engine, the clink-clink of shunting trucks, and the hoarse little whistle of the colliery locomotives. ❋ Unknown (2004)
She was startled by the rapid chuff of the winding-engine at the pit, and the sharp whirr of the brakes on the rope as it descended. ❋ Unknown (2003)
The old woman continued to muse aloud, a monotonous irritating sound, while Elizabeth thought concentratedly, startled once, when she heard the winding-engine chuff quickly, and the brakes skirr with a shriek. ❋ Unknown (2003)
The winding-engine pulsed hurriedly, with brief pauses. ❋ Unknown (2003)
The two wheels were spinning fast up against the sky, and the winding-engine rapped out its little spasms. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Even with a separate winch or auxiliary winding-engine, delays are unavoidable in a working shaft, especially as it usually has more water to contend with than one not in use for operating the mine. ❋ Herbert Hoover (1919)
Inasmuch as the winding-engine, even when the ore haulage is finished for the day, must be under steam for handling men in emergencies, and as the labor of stokers, engine-drivers, shaft-men, etc., is therefore necessary, the cost of power consumed by bailing is not great, despite the low efficiency of winding-engines. ❋ Herbert Hoover (1919)
The load once on the winding-engine, the consumption of power is small for the extra distance, and the saving of labor is of consequence. ❋ Herbert Hoover (1919)
And so at last he sank a shaft, sixty feet deep, rigged up a corrugated-iron engine-house with a winding-engine, and lowered his men one at a time down the shaft, in a big bucket. ❋ Unknown (1907)
The winding-engine was turning, the pulley at the top of the head-gear whizzing round; nothing looked unusual. ❋ John Galsworthy (1900)
About the same time he attempted an improvement in the winding-engine which he worked, by placing a valve between the air-pump and condenser. ❋ Samuel Smiles (1858)
A small winding-engine having been put up for the purpose of drawing the coals from the pit, Bill Coe, his friend and fellow-workman, was appointed the brakesman. ❋ Samuel Smiles (1858)
Stephenson erected his first winding-engine to draw the coals out of the pit, and also a pumping-engine for Long Benton Colliery, both of which proved quite successful. ❋ Samuel Smiles (1858)
Militia — Thinks of emigrating to America — Takes a contract for brakeing engines — Improves the winding-engine — Cures a pumping-engine — Becomes famous as an engine-doctor — Appointed engine-wright of a colliery ❋ Samuel Smiles (1858)
