• Looked at a 15th century steam-driven iPhone prototype. From Wordnik.com. [Boing Boing] Reference
Langley steam-driven aeroplane, has two sets of wings tandem. From Wordnik.com. [Things To Make] Reference
Talk about the sledgehammer—this is a steam-driven pile driver. From Wordnik.com. [Last Words] Reference
Steam Wars is a site that showcases some artwork depicting steam-driven robots. From Wordnik.com. [Steam Wars] Reference
The steam-driven catapult slingshot it down the tarmac at an astonishing 160 km/h!. From Wordnik.com. [Hell Island] Reference
Queen Victoria continues to rule, her life artificially extended by steam-driven cybernetics. From Wordnik.com. [Roberson's Book Report] Reference
We have an archaic steam-driven radiator system, and we knew we were living on borrowed time. From Wordnik.com. [Trying to Keep Warm - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com] Reference
Moreover, the gradient of the steam-driven ship is much steeper than that of the sailing ship. From Wordnik.com. [Energy and Society~ Chapter 5~ Steam~ Key to the Industrial Revolution] Reference
I assumed without really giving the matter much thought that the quarry pumps were also steam-driven. From Wordnik.com. [Natives of Space]
But then whoever coined it (was it Godfrey Hodgson?) was writingabout the age of steam-driven network news. From Wordnik.com. [Brave new Internet world] Reference
In France, the Lumiere Brothers captured scenes of steam-driven trains and well-dressed boulevard pedestrians. From Wordnik.com. [Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat] Reference
The ships embarked on what would be the first round the world voyage by a steam-driven fleet of steel battleships. From Wordnik.com. [Joe Lauria: One Hundred Years of Imperial Bluster] Reference
The steam-driven wheel leaves us no occasion to envy even that ubiquitous denizen of the universe, the flying-fish. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 08, June 1858] Reference
In the old song about the "steel-drivin 'man," John Henry races the new steam-driven drill to see who can dig a hole faster. From Wordnik.com. [Thin Ice: Stereotype Threat and Black College Students] Reference
Matteo spent two afternoons reading through Arabian treatises and copying out what they had to say about steam-driven engines. From Wordnik.com. [Asimov's Science Fiction]
Our spinning-wheels are all broken; in a thousand huge buildings steam-driven looms, guided by a few hundred thousands of hands. From Wordnik.com. [Woman and Labour] Reference
I own a couple of Victorian books that would have been printed in places with no electricity, probably using steam-driven presses. From Wordnik.com. [Environmental / Human Impact of E-Readers, Books, Browsing] Reference
Brazil expanded sugar and coffee production, importing steam engines for processing (1815, first steam-driven sugar mill in Brazil). From Wordnik.com. [b. The Redefinition of the World Economy] Reference
In 1899 William McKinley became the first president to ride in a car, though the steam-driven engine that carried him was soon obsolete. From Wordnik.com. [The King's Best Highway] Reference
Other roads will be electrifying their lines as fast as it is proved that the electric-driven locomotive has the bulge on the steam-driven. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Swift and His Electric Locomotive, or, Two Miles a Minute on the Rails] Reference
It was a steam-driven train this time, rumbling and groaning, and as it tumbled by with a monstrous complaint it sent a shower of sparks and cinders over the platform. From Wordnik.com. [The Beautiful and Damned] Reference
The two Rand compressors were 24 by 24 by 30-in., straight-line, one-stage, steam-driven, with a nominal capacity of 1,250 cu.ft. of free air per min. at 80 rev. per min. From Wordnik.com. [Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, vol. LXVIII, Sept. 1910 The Bergen Hill Tunnels. Paper No. 1154] Reference
Seen any steam-driven cars for sale at your local car dealership?. From Wordnik.com. [Libertarian Blog Place] Reference
His own steam-driven flying machine was produced and successfully flown in 1896. From Wordnik.com. [The War in the Air; Vol. 1 The Part played in the Great War by the Royal Air Force] Reference
The navy-blue City is parked next to a 1913 Model T and an 1898 steam-driven car. From Wordnik.com. [Technology news - Business 2.0 Magazine] Reference
Interestingly, this was thanks more to Twitter than the old steam-driven internet. From Wordnik.com. [Liberal England] Reference
Taylor touted his steam-driven massage device as speeding treatment while reducing physician fatigue. From Wordnik.com. Reference
In other words the hand loom had been supplanted by the more modern device of the steam-driven spinning mill. From Wordnik.com. [Carl and the Cotton Gin] Reference
In many manufactures the introduction of steam-driven machinery and the factory system belongs to this generation. From Wordnik.com. [The Evolution of Modern Capitalism A Study of Machine Production] Reference
After many experiments with new models Langley at length fashioned a steam-driven machine which would fly horizontally. From Wordnik.com. [The Age of Invention : a chronicle of mechanical conquest] Reference
Then there was a convulsion of those shining folds, followed by a sound as of bones being ground up in a steam-driven mortar. From Wordnik.com. [The Ivory Child] Reference
America, destroying the old domestic industry and establishing in every civilised country the reign of steam-driven machinery. From Wordnik.com. [The Evolution of Modern Capitalism A Study of Machine Production] Reference
With great steam-driven saws it would be cut into sections, that were lifted and swung aside by powerful derricks planted near the bows. From Wordnik.com. [Raftmates A Story of the Great River] Reference
You'll see many kinds of powerful locomotives, ranging from the vintage steam-driven models to the more modern diesel-powered streamliners. From Wordnik.com. [WebWire | Recent Headlines] Reference
From theory Langley turned to practice and in 1896 designed a steam-driven machine which flew three-quarters of a mile without an operator. From Wordnik.com. [Aviation in Peace and War] Reference
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