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  • 81Back-acting steam engine — Steam engine Steam en gine ([e^]n j[i^]n). An engine moved by steam. [1913 Webster] Note: In its most common forms its essential parts are a piston, a cylinder, and a valve gear. The piston works in the cylinder, to which steam is admitted by the …

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  • 82Back-action steam engine — Steam engine Steam en gine ([e^]n j[i^]n). An engine moved by steam. [1913 Webster] Note: In its most common forms its essential parts are a piston, a cylinder, and a valve gear. The piston works in the cylinder, to which steam is admitted by the …

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  • 83Portable steam engine — Steam engine Steam en gine ([e^]n j[i^]n). An engine moved by steam. [1913 Webster] Note: In its most common forms its essential parts are a piston, a cylinder, and a valve gear. The piston works in the cylinder, to which steam is admitted by the …

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  • 84Semiportable steam engine — Steam engine Steam en gine ([e^]n j[i^]n). An engine moved by steam. [1913 Webster] Note: In its most common forms its essential parts are a piston, a cylinder, and a valve gear. The piston works in the cylinder, to which steam is admitted by the …

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  • 85Baltimore Steam Packet Company — The Old Bay Line s District of Columbia in 1949 The Baltimore Steam Packet Company, which was also known as the Old Bay Line, was an American steamship line from 1840 to 1962, providing overnight steamboat service on the Chesapeake Bay,… …

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  • 86Isle of Man Steam Packet Company — Infobox Company company name = Isle of Man Steam Packet Company company company type = Limited Company foundation = 1830 location = Douglas, Isle of Man key people = Chairman Robert Quayle [http://www.steam… …

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  • 87City of Seattle (steam ferry) — City of Seattle circa 1891 Career Name: City of Seattle …

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  • 88Illawarra Steam Navigation Company — The Illawarra Steam Navigation Company serviced the south coast of New South Wales, Australia from the 1850s to the 1950s. Passengers travelled to and from Sydney with pigs and produce for company and it was known as the Pig and Whistle Line… …

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  • 89Boiler (steam generator) — Contents 1 Steam generator (component of prime mover) 2 Boiler types 2.1 Haycock and wagon top boilers …

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  • 90Timeline of steam power — See Steam engine, Steam power during the Industrial Revolution. Steam power developed slowly over a period of several hundred years, progressing through expensive and fairly limited devices in the early 1600s, to useful pumps for mining in 1700,… …

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