Below you will find example sentences with "steam engine". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.
Steam Engine in a sentence
Corpus data
- Displayed example sentences: 20
- Discovered as a combination around: steam
- Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 18
- Phrase length: 2 words
- Average sentence length: 27.2 words
Sentence profile
- Phrase position: 4 start, 9 middle, 7 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis
- The phrase "steam engine" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 27.2 words and is mostly made up of statements.
- Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as type of steam engine to make, 90 horsepower steam engine traveled mainly, watt, first and pressure stand out.
- In the phrase index, this combination connects with search engine, steam deck, steam engines and steam turbine, linking the page to nearby combinations.
Example types with steam engine
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Newcomen's steam powered atmospheric engine was the first practical piston steam engine. (13 words)
Watt began to experiment with steam, though he had never seen an operating steam engine. (15 words)
The most useful instrument for analyzing the performance of steam engines is the steam engine indicator. (16 words)
Industrial Revolution Boulton & Watt engine of 1788 The Watt steam engine was the first type of steam engine to make use of steam at a pressure just above atmospheric to drive the piston helped by a partial vacuum. (38 words)
Watt and the kettle There is a popular story that Watt was inspired to invent the steam engine by seeing a kettle boiling, the steam forcing the lid to rise and thus showing Watt the power of steam. (38 words)
In 1720 Jacob Leupold described a two-cylinder high-pressure steam engine. citation The invention was published in his major work "Theatri Machinarum Hydraulicarum". citation The engine used two heavy pistons to provide motion to a water pump. (38 words)
Example sentences (20)
Industrial Revolution Boulton & Watt engine of 1788 The Watt steam engine was the first type of steam engine to make use of steam at a pressure just above atmospheric to drive the piston helped by a partial vacuum.
Rotary steam engines It is possible to use a mechanism based on a pistonless rotary engine such as the Wankel engine in place of the cylinders and valve gear of a conventional reciprocating steam engine.
Watt and the kettle There is a popular story that Watt was inspired to invent the steam engine by seeing a kettle boiling, the steam forcing the lid to rise and thus showing Watt the power of steam.
It was manually operated for the first eight months, and then powered by a steam engine, reverting to manual operation in 1913, when the steam engine failed.
Newcomen's steam powered atmospheric engine was the first practical piston steam engine.
Steam piston engine A labeled schematic diagram of a typical single-cylinder, simple expansion, double-acting high pressure steam engine.
The Savannah, a sailing ship outfitted with a 90-horsepower steam engine, traveled mainly under sail across the Atlantic, using steam power for 80 hours of the nearly month-long passage to Liverpool, England.
He discussed the relative merits of air and steam as working fluids, the merits of various aspects of steam engine design, and even included some ideas of his own regarding possible improvements of the practical nature.
It was the first type of steam engine to make use of steam at a pressure just above atmospheric to drive the piston helped by a partial vacuum.
Motive power A RegioSwinger multiple unit of the Croatian Railways Steam locomotives are locomotives with a steam engine that provides adhesion.
The advent of the mobile steam engine allowed steam power to be applied to ploughing from about 1850.
The cycle of a reciprocating steam engine differs from that of turbines because of condensation and re-evaporation occurring in the cylinder or in the steam inlet passages.
The introduction of the steam pump by Savery in 1698 and the Newcomen steam engine in 1712 greatly facilitated the removal of water and enabled shafts to be made deeper, enabling more coal to be extracted.
The most useful instrument for analyzing the performance of steam engines is the steam engine indicator.
The Quasiturbine is a uniflow rotary steam engine where steam intakes in hot areas, while exhausting in cold areas.
Watt began to experiment with steam, though he had never seen an operating steam engine.
A miniature steam engine is rolled out of its transport van just in time for the traction engine rally.
In 1720 Jacob Leupold described a two-cylinder high-pressure steam engine. citation The invention was published in his major work "Theatri Machinarum Hydraulicarum". citation The engine used two heavy pistons to provide motion to a water pump.
In his examination of the engine, it was noted that the Diesel at that time operated at thermodynamic efficiencies of 32–35%, while a typical triple expansion steam engine would operate at about 18%.
James Watt of course did not actually invent the steam engine, as the story implies, but dramatically improved the efficiency of the existing Newcomen engine by adding a separate condenser.