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- noun Attributive form of
steam engine
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Examples
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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.
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This is not more impossible than is the steam-engine impossible or democracy impossible.
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Along came the steam-engine and labor-saving machinery.
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Dr. Pate showed a slide of a cartoon steam-engine train with cars labeled "Education" and "Disease Control."
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In 1830, the first steam-engine locomotive, the Tom Thumb, graced America's railways.
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On a flat weedy piece of ground along the railroad tracks to my left was the circular ghost of the steam-engine turntable.
Interstate 69 Matt Dellinger 2010
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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.
Archive 2007-07-01 Heather McDougal 2007
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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.
Automata in the Ancient World Heather McDougal 2007
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David found that the effective use of the new technology required a different physical construction of the factory than the old steam-engine layout.
The Nature of Technology W. Brain Arthur 2009
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Their first steam-engine designs worked great for a decade, then blew up twice.
Sunday in Philly da_lj 2007
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