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MOTORS |
Engines |
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LOCOS |
Railway engines |
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LOCOMOTIVES |
Train engines |
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PUFFERS |
Steam engines |
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TURBINES |
Steam engines |
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MECHANISMS |
Ins and outs of engines |
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ENGINERY |
Engines, in general; instruments of war. |
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ENGINER |
A contriver; an inventor; a contriver of engines. |
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GREMLIN |
Imaginary imp said to cause problems with WWII aircraft engines |
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ROUNDHOUSE |
A house for locomotive engines, built circularly around
a turntable. |
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TRAWLERMAN |
A fisherman who used unlawful arts and engines to catch
fish. |
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MACHINIST |
A constrictor of machines and engines; one versed in the
principles of machines. |
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JARRING |
A shaking; a tremulous motion; as, the jarring of a
steamship, caused by its engines. |
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DUMMY |
A locomotive with condensing engines, and, hence, without
the noise of escaping steam; also, a dummy car. |
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CATARACT |
A kind of hydraulic brake for regulating the action of
pumping engines and other machines; -- sometimes called dashpot. |
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GREASER |
One who, or that which, greases; specifically, a person
employed to lubricate the working parts of machinery, engines,
carriages, etc. |
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SPANNER |
A contrivance in some of the ealier steam engines for
moving the valves for the alternate admission and shutting off of the
steam. |
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GOVERNOR |
A contrivance applied to steam engines, water wheels, and
other machinery, to maintain nearly uniform speed when the resistances
and motive force are variable. |
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HIGH-PRESSURE |
Having or involving a pressure greatly exceeding
that of the atmosphere; -- said of steam, air, water, etc., and of
steam, air, or hydraulic engines, water wheels, etc. |
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BOILER |
... plates
riveted together, or a composite structure variously formed, in which
steam is generated for driving engines, or for heating, cooking, o... |
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ENGINEERING |
Originally, the art of managing engines; in its modern
and extended sense, the art and science by which the mechanical
properties of matter are... |
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ROCK SHAFT |
...ing motion, as in the valve gear of some steam
engines; -- called also rocker, rocking shaft, and way shaft. ... |
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TURRET |
...hing a fortified place,
for carrying soldiers, engines, ladders, casting bridges, and other
necessaries. ... |
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REGENERATOR |
A device used in connection with hot-air engines,
gas-burning furnaces, etc., in which the incoming air or gas is heated
by being brought into ... |
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ECCENTRIC |
... center
of the wheel and that of the shaft do not coincide. It is used for
operating valves in steam engines, and for other purposes. The motion... |