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  2. Old Bess (beam engine) - Wikipedia

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    Similar problems in the iron industry had inspired the development of the water-returning engine: a steam pump that could raise water to drive the wheel, in times of low water on the river. The Kinneil Engine had been built as a pump, for use in a coal mine, and so was suitable for this new task.

  3. Wikipedia : Featured picture candidates/Electric steam iron

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    Original – A modern electric steam iron made by Russell Hobbs. Reason This is a typical product shot isolated on white as you might get from a stock photo agency. This image is high-resolution, sharp and in focus from front to back. The angled profile shows off the steam plate as well as the handle, at the expense of the controls.

  4. Soho Foundry - Wikipedia

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    Soho Foundry main gate Blue plaque at the main gate Listed canal roving bridge at entrance to Soho Foundry Loop canal (now dry). Soho Foundry is a factory created in 1795 by Matthew Boulton and James Watt and their sons Matthew Robinson Boulton and James Watt Jr. [1] at Smethwick, West Midlands, England (grid reference), for the manufacture of steam engines.

  5. Timeline of steam power - Wikipedia

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    2009 (): On August 25, 2009, Team Inspiration of the British Steam Car Challenge broke the long-standing record for a steam vehicle set by a Stanley Steamer in 1906, setting a new speed record of 139.843 mph (225.055 km/h) over a measured mile at Edwards Air Force Base, in the Mojave Desert of California.

  6. Steam power during the Industrial Revolution - Wikipedia

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    Newcomen's atmospheric steam engine. The first practical mechanical steam engine was introduced by Thomas Newcomen in 1712. Newcomen apparently conceived his machine independently of Savery, but as the latter had taken out a wide-ranging patent, Newcomen and his associates were obliged to come to an arrangement with him, marketing the engine until 1733 under a joint patent. [2]

  7. Cornish engine - Wikipedia

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    Pressurized steam from the boiler enters the top part of the cylinder above the piston, pushing it down, and the steam below the piston is drawn into the condenser, creating a vacuum below the piston. The pressure difference between the steam at boiler pressure above the piston and the vacuum below it drives the piston down.

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