"engine" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The efficiency of Energiprojekt's steam engine reaches some 27-30% on high-pressure engines.
- After Richard Trevithick's development of the high-pressure engine, transport-applications became possible, and steam engines found their way into boats, railways, farms and road vehicles.
- The following year, Trevithick and his partner, his cousin Andrew Vivian, patented a steam coach, the patent also describing other uses for Trevithick's new high-pressure engines.
- It seemed, in fact, the safety-valve of his high-pressure intellectual engine.
- Aft of the pilothouse, twin smokestacks vented the smoke from the six boilers that powered two horizontal, high-pressure engines.
- She was a frigate of great speed, fitted with high-pressure engines which admitted a pressure of seven atmospheres.
- The Bloomer, a 130-ton side-wheeler with high-pressure engines, navigated the route between Geneva and Pensacola in 1857, as did the Brooklyn, which was built in Geneva.
- The engine room was thirty-five feet (11 m) long, housing two high-pressure engines.
- Trevithick's first high-pressure engines from 1801 onwards, including his locomotives, used the return connecting rod layout in both horizontal and vertical arrangements.
- The high-pressure engine, as developed by Richard Trevithick, used double-acting pistons and became the model for most steam engines afterwards.
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