A steam-powered locomotive. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
• Radio-controlled steam-powered toy vehicles Link. From Wordnik.com. [Boing Boing] Reference
The engines were steam-powered, with spherical boilers. From Wordnik.com. [Analog Science Fiction and Fact]
"It's a steam-powered thing, right?" the man interrupted. From Wordnik.com. [The Dragons of Krynn]
I expect this'll be the last made up of steam-powered ships. From Wordnik.com. [The Heirs of Babylon]
The technology replaced steam-powered locomotives by the 1950s. From Wordnik.com. [Caterpillar Unit to Buy Locomotive Maker for $820 Million] Reference
Above their bent heads, huge spindles pound steam-powered fists. From Wordnik.com. [Middlesex]
Massive steam-powered machines in central Honghe cooked pigment into yarn. From Wordnik.com. [China's Export Machine] Reference
"Is he set up to run a steam-powered computer and read through his monocle?". From Wordnik.com. [How To Write An Effective E-Mail] Reference
I still need a hamster-driven steam-powered hat and rocket-shaped cufflinks. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-07-01] Reference
The book does not mention aircraft — and that machine wasn't steam-powered. From Wordnik.com. [Natives of Space]
And then notice the rails and steam-powered pulley system: proto-Smout Allen. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-09-01] Reference
“These steam-powered explosives throwers the attackers have brought into play.”. From Wordnik.com. [Running from the Deity]
Unca Ole, on his first vacation ever at age 56 with Allan& I on a steam-powered train. From Wordnik.com. [A Journey Within A Journey] Reference
This steam-powered walking robot has a boiler for its head and an engine in its belly. From Wordnik.com. [Boing Boing] Reference
After he had stood silently for a time, a steam-powered tractor puffed by, then slowed. From Wordnik.com. [The Death of Chaos]
"So long as they don't make a steam-powered painter, I'll do well enough," Audubon said. From Wordnik.com. [The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection]
Hopping aboard the glorious steam-powered airship SS Imperial I crossed the Atlantic …. From Wordnik.com. [Planet-x.com.au » The Editors: Gordon Van Gelder – SF Books] Reference
Yes, and we can turn our cars into steam-powered engines and run them on Kingsford briquets. From Wordnik.com. [GOPer's Spokesperson: My Boss Would Never Say Oil Grows On Trees] Reference
So, as you can see, they constructed for me the steam-powered, hamster-operated hat from MegaTokyo. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2010-01-01] Reference
Time spent in port for loading and unloading was likewise reduced by the use of steam-powered hoists. From Wordnik.com. [Energy and Society~ Chapter 5~ Steam~ Key to the Industrial Revolution] Reference
Her father owned a small flour mill — one of the first such steam-powered facilities in the region. From Wordnik.com. [Malka Kolodny.] Reference
Image below courtesy dharmabum90: the Neverwas Haul, being towed by a 90-year-old steam-powered tractor. From Wordnik.com. [Boing Boing] Reference
According to this thing, mankind has as one of its most advanced mechanisms the steam-powered locomotive. From Wordnik.com. [Natives of Space]
Ransom E. Olds built his first experimental steam-powered horseless carriage in Lansing, Michigan in 1887. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 29, 2004] Reference
We're even into the patently weird and wacky endeavors, like building the world's fastest steam-powered car. From Wordnik.com. Reference
Within its first three days, more than 10,000 people rode the store's steam-powered elevators, then a novelty. From Wordnik.com. [From Second Empire to Second Chance] Reference
No application of the new technology, however, rattled the status quo so much as the steam-powered locomotive. From Wordnik.com. [The Locomotive as Engine] Reference
Everybody else had a digital one, and Dinger still had his old steam-powered thing that took an age to tune in. From Wordnik.com. [Bravo-Two-Zero]
For instance, it took a steam-powered saw to economically produce the gingerbread that adorns Victorian exteriors. From Wordnik.com. [The crowning touch: Moldings span a range of styles, materials and prices] Reference
The huge warship was one of the steam-powered dragon ships used by the Sartan on Abarrach to sail the molten seas. From Wordnik.com. [Into the Labyrinth]
Locomotives and wagons were lowered directly down the steep slope on ropes and pulleys attached to a steam-powered winch. From Wordnik.com. [Forging a Country in African Wilds] Reference
A precursor of the modern tank -- a steam-powered tractor -- was actually used by the British army during the Crimean War. From Wordnik.com. [Sept. 15, 1916: All Disquiet on the Western Front] Reference
She was steering a steam-powered vehicle downslope, with a similar man beside her and a small red man perched above her head. From Wordnik.com. [The Ringworld Throne]
In their wickedly fun book, the information age arrives 100 years early, steam-powered right along with the Industrial Revolution. From Wordnik.com. [Steampunking Technology] Reference
Team Steam hopes to achieve 170 mph when it challenges the land speed record for a steam-powered vehicle and says everything is on track. From Wordnik.com. [Wired Top Stories] Reference
Gru and his minions have all these weird contraptions: a jet car that looks sort of steam-powered; cookie robots that skitter like insects. From Wordnik.com. ['Despicable Me': Oddly Adorable] Reference
Foreign fleets, specifically British, began fishing these waters at the end of the 19th century, arriving in large, steam-powered trawlers. From Wordnik.com. [Iceland Shelf large marine ecosystem] Reference
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