Word: steam-driven
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...planned, the Neptune will burn the same fuels as the V2: alcohol and liquid oxygen. It will also carry hydrogen peroxide, which suggests that, like the V2, it will have a steam-driven pump to rush the fuel into the combustion chamber...
Last week the nation's shipyards celebrated National Maritime Day, anniversary of the Savannah's maiden trip in 1819-across the Atlantic with sails and steam-driven paddle wheels. The U.S. launched 27 vessels in Maritime Day's 24 hours. Whether Jerry Land's ships were ducks to be shot at or dodos doomed to extinction after the war by Grover Loening's air fleet, they were the immediate answer...
...Gorrie was a good enough physicist to know that expanding air absorbs heat from its surroundings. Accordingly he built a steam-driven pump which packed air to ten times atmospheric pressure. The released air chilled water until it froze. Dr. Gorrie was granted U. S. Patent...
...account of existence in a well-to-do broker's family in a settled and serene period of U. S. history. For young Clarence Day it was a great treat to visit his father's dusty Wall Street office on Saturday mornings, riding to work on the steam-driven Sixth Avenue Elevated, watching his father salute acquaintances by touching cane to ilk hat brim. He listened to bewhiskered brokers fuming about the proposal of the Knights of Labor for an eight-hour day, watched bookkeepers remove their detachable cuffs, carried messages through a financial district that rarely...
...account of existence in a well-to-do broker's family in a settled and serene period of U. S. history. For young Clarence Day it was a great treat to visit his father's dusty Wall Street office on Saturday mornings, riding to work on the steam-driven Sixth Avenue Elevated, watching his father salute acquaintances by touching cane to ilk hat brim. He listened to bewhiskered brokers fuming about the proposal of the Knights of Labor for an eight-hour day, watched bookkeepers remove their detachable cuffs, carried messages through a financial district that rarely...