Sentences with phrase «steam engines»

The hyphens come into play every time I lose my train of thought, and it's a long train with dual huffing and puffing steam engines but without a caboose.

Its collection of over 35,000 artifacts include miniature ship models, scrimshaw, maritime paintings, decorative arts, carved figureheads, working steam engines and much more.

Water driven mills led to the production of textiles, Colt firearms and railroad steam engines and the rise of silk industries.

The current law of groundless threats of infringement stems from the 19th century and was introduced to resolve disputes about steam engines.

Steam engines and then gasoline engines eclipsed his invention.

The problem of groundless threats isn't new; it was recognised over 140 years ago when disputes were about steam engines.

Gas power stations are essentially jet engines in mechanical terms, while coal and nuclear power stations are steam engines, and therefore can not respond to changes in output as quickly.

«have created such things as refrigerators, internal combustion engines, nuclear power plants, solar panels, and steam engines, just to name a few examples.»

All that having been said, let's take another look at the Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) argument, first noting the following: The proponents of AGW argue that, right from the beginning of the Industrial Revolution when there were no automobiles, very few steam engines, and only 1.2 billion people (versus today's 7 billion), the introduction of initially tiny quantities of a weak greenhouse gas produced, without time - delay, an in - phase and measurable rise in global temperatures that continues to this day.

However, if science does not understand the Laws of Thermodynamics, then it must be by pure coincidence that engineers have created such things as refrigerators, internal combustion engines, nuclear power plants, solar panels, and steam engines, just to name a few examples.

But they concentrated it in a way that it could be put to work in steam engines, which could run trains and boats, for belt drives in factories.

Furthermore, steam engines were noisy and produced air pollution, while the low transport efficiency of DC power excluded the use of more distant, clean hydro power sources.

The basis for the second law (and the first) is careful and accurate measurement, mostly paid for by wicked 19th century capitalists, who wanted to know how to get more from their steam engines, and also how to avoid being sold snake oil.

A concentrating solar thermal power plant, even with molten salt storage, may work better with computers, nanostructured absorbers, and other advantages of modern technology, but it doesn't require tech any more sophisticated than 1800's steam engines.

As it turns out this lowers the latent heat capacity so much you can't get anywhere near the efficiency of choosing a higher boiling point which was an object lesson for me in why steam engines run at very high temperatures.

As water vapour occupies about 1000 times the volume of the water / ice it comes from that has the possibility to create very large forces (witness old time condensing steam engines).

The power stroke of early steam engines were driven in this manner — a piston rises drawing in low pressure steam then the cylinder is cooled causing the steam to condense and a negative pressure then pulls the cylinder down.

If wind powered, and indeed water powered, corn grinding was so marvellous, why was it replaced by steam engines, then electric motors?

If you visit the Black County Museum or Iron Bridge Gorge you can see quite a few working steam engines from the 1780; s to the 1930's.

Previously the word «chuffed» was associated with steam engines - highly appropriae for a thread on climate change.

With respect, cars merely replaced tens of millions of steam engines of one type or another burning wood or very dirty coal.

It eventually grew to employ hundreds of workers manufacturing America's first steam engines, water wheels, pipes for New York City's water system, ironclad sailing ships, and stoves and ovens.

Since there is active volcanism near the surface, the Icelanders can tap that free heat to boil water and power steam engines.

From the Pre-Industrial Age to the present (i.e., before James Watt and his steam engines), CO2 has risen from 280 ppm to the current 387 ppm.

More steam engines just begat more coal digging.

It was then used to power very big and inefficient steam engines that pumped water out of mines; when James Watt developed his steam engine that used 75 percent less coal than the Newcomen engine it replaced, the common thinking was that the increased efficiency meant that they would burn less coal.

Even though these newer steam engines burned less coal, the proliferation of steam engines throughout the coal - fired British Empire erased any energy savings.

Welsh castles, steam engines and a storm at sea — as Turner and the Sea opens at the National Maritime Museum, we choose the artist's greatest paintings to see in UK galleries.

Still, the manic nature of the game does mean you'll find yourself involved in some pretty cool stuff, from taking down run - away trains that have been granted life (there's some really painful dialogue about steam engines being a man's passion in there) to finding yourself in a duel with a man who can summon a tiger from the tattoo on his back.

Kew Bridge Steam Museum is situated in Kew near the River Thames and houses a collection of water pumping steam engines, a steam railway and other water supply and treatment mechanisms.

The district's Musée des Arts et Métiers offers an enormous collection of scientific machinery, early steam engines and scientific instrumentation dating back to the Renaissance.

One can pan for gold; see the impressive steam engines and steam driven pump at work, watch skilled tradesmen manufacturing beautiful craft — wonder back in time until late in the afternoon.

There are also a number of popular heritage railways, where vintage steam engines and carriages transport tourists into a glorious bygone age of travel.

The world's first underground railway opened in London in 1863 between Paddington and Farringdon stations using steam engines to pull gas - lit wooden carriages along the almost four - mile, 6 - station, route.

Really — books about steam engines that talk!

Two imposing steam engines at the head of ten luxuriously appointed coaches in bottle - green livery slid towards a junction 140 miles west of Berlin.

Apparently no one hears or notices these steam engines or the building of the tunnels.

Watt decided that he had to accurately compare the output of the steam engines with the power of the draft...

These potential customers had also had bad experiences with other steam engines and weren't ready to test another model.

«My father was a mechanical kind of guy, and we grew up restoring old tractors and steam engines — so once I started making a few dollars, I started purchasing cars...» Campion says.

In fact, what horsepower is — aside from an arbitrary measure of energy popularized by a guy who needed to sell steam engines — depends on where you live.

Machine learning computer systems, which get better with experience, are poised to transform the economy much as steam engines and...

Later, when factory managers first replaced their large steam engines with large electric motors, the new electric motors were less noisy and didn't produce smoke, but they had little impact on productivity.

We have always developed ingenious technologies to automate our workloads, from steam engines to search engines.

For example, as Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee explain in their book, The Second Machine Age, when factory managers first replaced the steam engines used to power manufacturing equipment with electric motors, the new technology had little impact on productivity.

Yet the blend of hissing steam engines and screaming birds on the soundtrack announces, along with the narrat...

Leo Tolstoy's tale of ball gowns, steam engines and lives ruined by affairs has been injected with a burst of visual flair by the Atonement auteur, staging much of the action within a 19th Century Russian theatre, where characters move from scene to scene as if in an epic, shifting play.

He grunts and growls with occasional Chewbacca whinnies; he huffs like a mill owner, or like one of those steam engines of the Victorian age whose encroaching modernity makes Turner so uncomfortable.

With a little over two weeks to go until its home entertainment release, a trailer has arrived online for the animated family adventure The Steam Engines of Oz.

The Browns themselves orchestrate a touching display of support for London's happiest little civilian (Samuel Joslin hides his love of steam engines, Sally Hawkins puts The Shape Of Water to good use, Hugh Bonneville nails a «bullseye» and Madeleine Harris brings some integrity to journalism), but that's hardly the end.