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While steampower and rail was being introduced, in the colonies forced labor destroyed generations of peoples lives.
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When one of Jack Fletcher's nanoelectromechanical system experiments is jostled in his lab, the resulting explosion sends him into the world of his favorite novel-a seemingly Victorian-era world of steampower, aether guns, corsets, and goggles.
New Release for Paranormal Romance, Urban Fantasy & YA Fantasy for the week of February 1, 2010 Donna 2010
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Ferries, too, including those existing before the age of steampower.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Judicial Protection for Property Rights Really Did Decline: 2009
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The best experience affirms the policy of giving to our cruisers as large steampower as is consistent with a due development of all other warlike qualities; for what would avail the superior armament of a ship, if the option of fighting or flying remain with her adversary, which must be the case when the latter commands higher speed?
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 29, March, 1860 Various
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The fear, which is now entertained, that steampower and railroads may drive out of employment a large proportion of the horses at present in use, is probably not less unfounded.
On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures Charles Babbage 1831
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I'd imagine it would be a lot of fun to see a Steampunk lodge turning its gears on steampower.
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I'd imagine it would be a lot of fun to see a Steampunk lodge turning its gears on steampower.
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I'd imagine it would be a lot of fun to see a Steampunk lodge turning its gears on steampower.
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Of course I sat there and did nothing, a fact Ive ever so succinctly brushed upon a few posts back (about 11 times), I did nowt at all, not a thing, I texted a bad man from here who suggested my plums could do with airing, but like the wibbling masses on here who get so fired up they could collectively steampower a trackless Challenger tank across the Gobi Desert, I did nothing, read my book and picked my nose ....
Army Rumour Service 2010
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The Mississippi had her steampower headed to the northward and eastward (on her way to
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