steam-motor

The steam-motor, in particular, made a highly individual racket.

Operation: Outer Space Murray Leinster 1935

The coal and iron industries engaged in furnishing the raw material of machinery and steam-motor, the machine manufacture, and the transport services, are the common feeders and regulators of all industries, including that of agriculture.

The Evolution of Modern Capitalism A Study of Machine Production 1899

But where heat is not the direct agent of manufacture, but is required to furnish steam-motor alone, as in the textile factories, the connection may be termed auxiliary.

The Evolution of Modern Capitalism A Study of Machine Production 1899

But the following statistics of the consumption of raw and thrown silk from 1765 to 1844 indicate how slight and irregular was the expansion of the trade in England during the era of the great inventions and the application of the steam-motor, and how disastrously the duties upon raw and thrown silks weighed upon this branch of manufacture.

The Evolution of Modern Capitalism A Study of Machine Production 1899

Once the great discoveries of the fifteenth century were made, especially that of the pressure of the atmosphere, supported by a series of advances in natural philosophy -- and they were made under the medieval city organization, -- once these discoveries were made, the invention of the steam-motor, and all the revolution which the conquest of

Mutual Aid; a factor of evolution Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin 1881